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subscribe to style file blog via RSScrowd control: the brooklyn museum takes it to the streets
July 25, 2008 9:33 am
Taking “The Wisdom of Crowds” by The New Yorker’s business and financial columnist James Surowiecki as its point of departure, the Brooklyn Museum’s summer group show, “Click,” asks whether the general public can be wiser collectively in identifying art than any single expert. “Click” began when the museum sent an online open call to photographers, asking them to digitally submit images representing “The Changing Face of Brooklyn.” The museum then asked the site’s viewers to rank the images according to preference and also to specify their level of art knowledge. Ranging from striking architectural shots to a shot of a man mooning the camera with “gentrify this” scrawled on his posterior, the photos are now displayed according to their relative ranking by the viewers. Whatever image ultimately “wins” first place, it is clear that Brooklynites of all stripes care about art that shows off the borough’s diversity. Should their collective assessment trump the experts? The jury is still out.
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