With the incredible success of the MoMA show at the Nationalgalerie, Hanno Rauterberg considers at Die Zeit the effects of waiting for hours and hours and hours to get into the museum (not that, I suppose, he actually waited himself...).
The gist is that because the museum decided not to offer tickets with scheduled entrance times, waiting was inevitable. Rauterberg argues that the waiting, which has become really extreme, is an artform in itself, a modern sacrifice of time, a new type of asceticism. He also suggests that waiting reinvests the artworks inside the museum with the aura that they've lost through their ever-increasing visibility.
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