What we do best is provide an arena where artistic meanings aren't fixed or absolute; where exhibitions, performances and individual works of art encourage reaction, dialogue and debate rather than educate from on high; where the nature of any given work of art isn't arbitrarily ripped away from its context and isolated from the lives and concerns of its audience. Like Sleeping Beauty, the idea of the museum as a social space, a space of public involvement, enjoyment and exchange, may be awakening from its centurylong nap, kissed by adventurous and controversial art that -- ouch! -- forgot to shave.
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