Emily Greenberg takes on Occupy Museums, the Occupy Wall Street offshoot that is criticizing the supposed elitism of our country's museum, and sees little substance behind their complaints. 

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Suzanne Baumgarten contemplates difference (and in the end perhaps similarities) between acknowledged artistic masterworks and the art found everyday.

While everyone’s lining up with their $22 timed tickets to see the Cezanne & Beyond show at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, look instead at the museum’s much-smaller but equally interesting exhibition Grand Scale: Monumental Prints in the Age of Durer and Titian. The Cezanne-viewers will be bottlenecked through low-ceilinged rooms and bumping elbows as they listen to their audio tours, but you, enlightened visitor, will be strolling through the relatively empty galleries of Monumental Prints, gazing at astounding Renaissance engravings and etchings.

Over break I visited friends in New York City, where I had previously lived for five years. During that time I rarely schlepped out to Queens from my Brooklyn apartment — with one big exception: the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Museum summer parties. This time, I decided to take in the museum sans hipster-packed, alcohol-sopped outdoor rave. This trip made me wonder, though, whether beer-goggles were needed to appreciate the often vapid beauty — or more often, politicized disparagement of beauty — that crowds the contemporary art scene.

This past week, my boyfriend visited me during Cornell's spring break, and so I celebrated as if it were mine, too (SPRING BREAK 2009!).

Maybe it wasn’t as buckwild as Cancún would have been, but we did do a lot of touristy things, as one might expect. The most shocking and disappointing realization to come of these was that the Louvre kind of sucks. Like, really.

It’s about that time of year when everyone starts to feel antsy for spring, though we’re probably in for a couple more months of Ithaca cold. Fortunately for you, we’ve got some great date ideas for spending some quality time indoors with your sweetie. If you’re into art, science or furnaces, then you should take advantage of the abundance of museums in and around Ithaca, especially if you’ve never visited one.

“I think there is literally not a person [on campus] who knows every collection at Cornell,” said Frederic Gleach, curator of the anthropology collections in McGraw Hall.

At around three dozen or more collections — ranging from fungi to brains — Cornell is home to a diverse assortment of museums and collections. McGraw Hall stood as the original museum: One end of the building housed a wing of fossils, rocks and minerals, while the other end contained plants and animals.