Others here include Christian Boltanski's dark cabinet of wonders. Childhood, he knows, becomes fragmented and yellowing with age from the moment one hopes to preserve its memory. Again the Modern outdoes the artists by taking on their theme. The rooms amount to a classification scheme, and they offer the curator, Kynaston McShine of the Modern, a personal museum. The Cornell boxes sit in a long row, behind a glass case, like boxes within boxes.
Art comes to seem in love with the museum after all.
One wants to handle and to cherish the relics Susan Hiller supplies From the Freud Museum . When Hiroshi Sugimoto photographs dioramas from a natural-history museum, one has trouble telling reality at a third remove from the real thing. One distrusts oneself and the museum a little more, but one almost no longer minds. Art's love affair with the museum lingers long after the political attacks. I had to check a catalog to recall Hans Haacke's reduction of Cubism to cigarette advertising or General Idea's documentation of museum marketing.