«OH, ART IS TOO HARD»

This fall almost all the works on view at the national Gallery of Art came from its permanent collection. That puts the institution on the leading edge of one of the decade's most beneficial trends: Museums have slowly been heading away from mega-shows and back toward the mega-art they already own and used to focus on. In the days when the Louvre and Prado did no more than put their art on view, they were hardly broken institutions. With that in mind, some of the world's greatest museums are ever so slowly retraining their visitors to replace the question "What's on?" with "What should I look at?"

Washington Post
Dec 27 2009