Talk:Modern Times: Photography in the 20th Century

Significant
While articles devoted to individual exhibitions are unusual, I think they're welcome if the exhibition is clearly significant.

I don't think that the article currently shows significance. Significant to the museum, certainly, but to the wider world?

I'd expect that an exhibition of this scale, in a museum of this prominence, would indeed be significant. Well then, let's see this. The article does cite an article in the FT. (Because this is behind a paywall, I can't read this.) Nothing elsewhere, e.g. in the Dutch-language press? (Any comment, Jane023?) -- Hoary (talk) 02:03, 25 December 2014 (UTC)

List of exhibitors
I'll assume for now that an article is indeed merited. The list of people whose photos are shown -- "exhibitors" is an odd term for the many who are dead, but it's conveniently short -- is very long. I have trouble understanding why it's necessary. If, by contrast, a reliable source has commented on the list (how welcome it is that X is included, how surprising that Y is omitted, etc), then one could mention this.

Any pressing reason for the long list? -- Hoary (talk) 02:03, 25 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Thanks for taking time for this on a holiday! I am a bit unclear what you have written here ("exhibitors"?). It appears to me that you feel that my use of the Redwd template is incorrect here - why? It also appears to me that you feel that the Rijksmuseum is not a valid source for artists - again why? I do agree about the FT link - I was unaware they go behind a paywall once an article moves to an archive - I will try to remember not to use FT in future. The reason I am including the list is because I want to show a finite list of artists in "an overview exhibition" that are not assembled by Wikipedians, but by a respected institution. This exhibition is showing an overview of photography as that art is known in the Netherlands, and as such, includes artists who are presumably unknown elsewhere. This does not make them less relevant to the article or to the wider encyclopedia. Jane (talk) 15:12, 27 December 2014 (UTC)