Gallery: Can Yelp Change the Way We Think About Art?
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Brian Droitcour, the art critic who put the online project together, argues that a good deal of writing about art involves putting that art in a historical context--something that necessarily requires an understanding of that history. *Image: Mary Rachel Kostreva and Douglas Schat*
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[Fifteen Stars](http://fifteenstars.com/) offers illustrated interpretations of random Yelp reviews of the New Museum. *Image: Jeff Baij*
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It's an absurd visual feast but underneath that the project tackles an interesting question: can sites like Yelp give us safer spaces to write about art? *Image: Jeff Baij*
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A space like Yelp strips away the expectation for that authority, giving people a less threatening space to write about their own personal, subjective museumgoing experiences. *Image: Michael Manning and Andrej Ujhazy*
