1. A casual, creaky sort of place, the ambiance is somewhere between a pristine museum setting and the mud-brick thatched huts where these works originated. 2. Did the museum settings rip these objects from the ritual contexts that gave them their significance? 3. Interestingly, even African images as accessible and expressive as these live uneasily in a traditional museum setting. 4. Outstanding pieces of craftsmanship and woodworking are on view in a museum setting. 5. Such corrections could have made the show more appropriate to a serious museum setting, more appealing to a broader audience and actually more representative of the hip-hop achievement. 6. The High claims the installation is the first attempt anywhere to conserve and display a large-scale outdoor folk environment in a museum setting. 7. The museum setting has made all the ethnographic alarms go off. 8. To profile the Duke in a museum exhibition setting would take more than putting a few old instruments and yellowing pages of sheet music in glass cases. |