What Does Connoisseurship Mean in the Digital Age?
The Art Angle
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How to Engage With Art in the Internet Age
I want to defend the internet. Otherwise, we'll make headlines that the millennial came out against the internet and we'll just shock everyone to death. So as a first exposure to perhaps not an entire genre or area of art, but to a particular work, I actually think that exploring online collections is incredible. And so I certainly have benefited from having so much information at my fingertips. But on the flip side, I've noticed that young curators in museums or academics are seeing less and less material in person. They don't handle as much material. It's wonderfully, wonderfully enriching to be able to even lie in bed and zoom in on a painting in the Prado's collection in
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