Recently, I’ve been admiring the new exhibition area that opened up in Times Square last week. Admittedly, this is partly because the opening exhibitions are pretty impressive – you can see the 3.2 million year old fossil known as Lucy and a 47 million year old fossil primate, learn about Ethiopian culture and how it contributed to civilization as we know it, and if that wasn’t enough you can take part in a Titanic experience which includes touching an ‘iceberg’ which remains at 32 degrees Fahrenheit (that’s 0 degress Celsius), to get an idea of how cold it was.

But this is only part of the story here. What is more important in terms of the bigger picture of contemporary art is that this new space represents a trend becoming increasingly popular – taking the art out of museums to put it where people [...]