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March 13, 2006

Taxonomy is everywhere

We went to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts today just because it's been a while. Among the lovelinesses is a 1910 calendar that groups the dates by the day of the week. Useless, yet beautiful.

By the way, don't you think $15 to enter + $7 for the special exhibit + $10 parking is a tad expensive for a public art museum? Wednesdays after 4 you can get in for whatever contribution you'd like to make, but that's not much of a window for serving the portion of Boston's population that doesn't have $22 to go see some art. (And why would they have a sign up on Wednesday afternoons saying "Suggested contribution $15"? If we wanted to pay $15, we wouldn't be there on Wednesday afternoon.) [Tags: everything_is_miscellaneous EverythingIsMiscellaneous art boston]

Posted by D. Weinberger at March 13, 2006 01:30 PM

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"Suggested contributions" at the museum: Putting the TAX in taxonomy.

Posted by: Mark Federman | March 13, 2006 02:41 PM

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