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When Doors Close, A Market Grows: Museums, COVID-19, and Cultural Digitisation

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In 1972, art critic John Berger remarked , “For the first time ever, images of art have become ephemeral, ubiquitous, insubstantial, available, valueless, free.” Those who criticize the company, and any association with it, may have better grounds to stand on than moral outrage over pornography. .

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Using that classic piece of art on a book cover: Grr…

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Walter Benjamin and John Berger might have a different read. Art critic John Berger, in his book , Ways of Seeing , following on from Benjamin, famously wrote as follows: “For the first time ever, images of art have become ephemeral, ubiquitous, insubstantial, available, valueless, free.” But not so fast.

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