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Pretty interesting. My takeaway is that you can’t assume viewers will know why curators thought a piece was important. The wall label might say what it is and when it’s from but the why (which is the most interesting part) is often missing. And it’s not something LLMs can fix.

Thanks for this summary. Besides adding more text giving the context what can you do? If visitors are genuinely interested then the onus is on them to follow up with books or documentaries.

The point the author was making is that sometimes the information doesn’t even exist in books or documentaries, it’s in assorted documents in the curator’s back office.

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