Word: tutting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...public is interested in or is it a spectator sport? I think these are serious concerns because while some exhibitions have been able to pull in such huge audiences, curators are having trouble raising the funds to put on more "scholarly" exhibitions...If people just go to museums because Tut is highly publicized on television and radio, whether that then makes them a regular museum goer I think is highly questionable...
...federal support for the arts has been an increase of interest in what has come to be called "blockbuster" exhibitions. The feeling that if the taxpayers' money goes into exhibitions, they should somehow be rewarded. The most obvious example that we've seen of this was the King Tut show. This notion has put tremendous pressure on small museums as well as large museums to have exhibitions that will show returns at the gate in terms of receipts of people coming to the museum...