The Louvre! The Louvre has me in its clutches. Speakers describe museums as places that preserve history, teach truth, and host creative installations like a wrapped floor in Chicago. They also argue that designers shouldn't create just for museums, and some recall fashion shoots that turned museum halls into photo sets.
![“[Museums] all belongs to the cultural department, which is the biggest cultural department in the world.” quote by Ai Weiwei](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/dd8/ai-weiwei-824_department_museums-all-belongs-to-the-cultural-depa_477977.png)
![“I think, at the L.A. County Museum of Art, I saw my first example of Kerry James Marshall, who had a very sort of heroic, oversized painting of black men in a barbershop. But it was painted on the same level and with the same urgency that you would see in a grand-scale [Anthony] van Dyck or…” quote by Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a08/kehinde-wiley-1194_art_i-think-at-the-l-a-county-museum-of-art_1563358.jpg)
![“What I think about when I frequent the Museum of Natural History, the Metropolitan [Museum of Art], and I look at these artifacts that are taken out of context and how we're forced to view them as objects, as relics, as sculpture- static. But what's interesting is what it allows me to do in my…” quote by Nick Cave](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/128/nick-cave-1153_art_what-i-think-about-when-i-frequent-the-m_2275702.jpg)
