{"id":455,"date":"2004-03-04T00:10:39","date_gmt":"2004-03-04T08:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2004\/03\/when_cultural_experiences_fall\/"},"modified":"2004-03-04T00:10:39","modified_gmt":"2004-03-04T08:10:39","slug":"when_cultural_experiences_fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/when_cultural_experiences_fall.php","title":{"rendered":"When cultural experiences fall a bit short"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some stories just scream out to be shared on weblogs such as mine. This <a href=\"http:\/\/icnorthwales.icnetwork.co.uk\/news\/regionalnews\/content_objectid=13987039_method=full_siteid=50142_page=1_headline=-Are%2DScots%2Dtaking%2Dthe%2DMickey%2Dat%2Dour%2DDisney%2Dshop%2D-name_page.html\">item in a North Wales newspaper<\/a> suggests that there&#8217;s a slight problem with the Welsh cultural experience offered by the &#8216;Magic of Wales&#8217; shop at Disney&#8217;s Epcot Centre. Specifically:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><br \/>\nDisney officials in the USA confirmed there were no Welsh products on sale at present in the Magic of Wales store.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nInstead, the shop offers a full range of Scottish items, including tartan ties, scarves, and even a map of the Scottish clans. So the Welsh North American Chamber of Commerce is stepping in to set things right.<\/p>\n<p>\nCultural managers are always struggling with extraordinarily complex issues of authenticity (how authentic is a performance of the &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huunhuurtu.com\/\">throat-singers of Tuva<\/a>,&#8217; for example, when performed in a historic opera house?&#8230;Or how authentic is an exhibit of Medieval religious iconography when hung on white museum walls?).<\/p>\n<p>\nOne way to avoid the shades of gray, I suppose, is to just get it boldly and absolutely wrong. Bravo Disney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some stories just scream out to be shared on weblogs such as mine. This item in a North Wales newspaper suggests that there&#8217;s a slight problem with the Welsh cultural experience offered by the &#8216;Magic of Wales&#8217; shop at Disney&#8217;s Epcot Centre. Specifically: Disney officials in the USA confirmed there were no Welsh products on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-455","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}