museum piece

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It's a scrapbook with a two-hour, 27-minute runtime, a collection of homages that together add up not to a plot, but to a museum piece – one that, like popcorn, makes you feel full with empty calories, yet never sated.

From Salon

A hip-hop staple, manufactured by hand in Italy, full of nods to connoisseurs — this is a museum piece made for the streets.

From New York Times

“There’s no point in doing something that’s like a museum piece, with characters who don’t connect to anything you worry about today,” Hirst said.

From New York Times

The room-length windmill mural, painted in calligraphic white strokes on a dark caramel-colored background, looks like a museum piece after its cleaning.

From New York Times

He taught us all that this music isn’t a museum piece.”

From Los Angeles Times