Museums: The New Movies

Movies are over. Wide, instantaneous distribution has killed them, along with a lack of innovation. "Have you seen the new blah?" "Of course I've seen the new blah! Everybody's seen the new blah!"

Their replacment is already happening: art shows, culture shows -- basically, museum shows. Their uniqueness to a specific place (once city at a time; with blockbuster shows rolling city to city over years) and the wide cultural embrace they enjoy (accompanied by books, TV shows, sometimes movies, certainly travel opportunities) offer the sought-after cultural cachet. And how do we know this is happening?Because the critics are complaining that museum shows are becoming too crassly commercial. Success!