{"id":1032,"date":"2006-07-16T13:30:26","date_gmt":"2006-07-16T18:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/the-art-of-guilt\/"},"modified":"2006-07-16T13:30:26","modified_gmt":"2006-07-16T18:30:26","slug":"the-art-of-guilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/the-art-of-guilt","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Guilt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC raised its &#8220;suggested admission&#8221; fee to $20. So the NYTimes sent a reporter to see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/07\/15\/arts\/design\/15admi.html\" target=\"_blank\">what happens if you give the cashier a couple of quarters<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In truth, there was not much noticeable scorn. There was, instead, that brand of aggressive disregard particular to New York that is sometimes much more effective in evoking shame and extracting money.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/07\/15\/arts\/design\/15admi.html\" target=\"_blank\">Enjoy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC raised its &#8220;suggested admission&#8221; fee to $20. So the NYTimes sent a reporter to see what happens if you give the cashier a couple of quarters: In truth, there was not much noticeable scorn. There was, instead, that brand of aggressive disregard particular to New York that is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/the-art-of-guilt\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Art of Guilt&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-urban-issues"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-gE","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3212,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/poor-excuse-for-art","url_meta":{"origin":1032,"position":0},"title":"Poor Excuse for Art","author":"Gil","date":"January 9, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm not sure I agree with the writer's point \u00e2\u20ac\u201d that post-crash poverty freed Rembrandt do pursue his art for its own sake \u00e2\u20ac\u201d but it's been a long time since I posted a Rembrandt link up here, so enjoy.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/art"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":14637,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-447-peter-schjeldahl","url_meta":{"origin":1032,"position":1},"title":"Episode 447 &#8211; Peter Schjeldahl","author":"Gil","date":"August 9, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show 447: Peter Schjeldahl \"My job is to give people something to read that is enjoyable and in some other way perhaps worth reading. 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I always felt caught right in the middle of the hurricane \u2014 in the best sense of the word to the most terrifying \u2014 from 2001, when everyone said everything changed.\" Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Jerry Saltz joins the show\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/art"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/saltzcomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C480&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/saltzcomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C480&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/saltzcomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C480&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/saltzcomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C480&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/saltzcomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C480&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":2500,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/dreams-of-sugar-skulls-and-rotting-sharks","url_meta":{"origin":1032,"position":3},"title":"Dreams of sugar skulls and rotting sharks","author":"Gil","date":"September 20, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"In Unrequired Reading last week, I posted Clive Crook's praise for Damien Hirst, who is auctioning off some of his \"art\" in the biggest auction ever for a living artist, or something. 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