REVIEW: 150 Years of Gustav Klimt. July 12, 2012-June 1, 2013. Schloss Belvedere, Vienna, Austria.
Goethe once wrote of a great man that in his presence "one doesn't learn something; one becomes something." This is only half true of the Klimt exhibition at Schloss Belvedere in Vienna: one doesn't learn bopkis about Klimt; one quickly becomes annoyed. The exhibition's a perfect success, and a perfect failure: a perfect realization of the neo-liberal, mass-culture fantasy that the dumbing down of Art is the only way to get the Mahsses off their asses and into the museum.
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