I can look at Michelangelo’s David on my laptop – are museums and art galleries still relevant?

This is the 10th of a series of 12 primers on current affairs and issues in the news, and what they mean for Singapore.

Sculpted in the 1500s, Michelangelo’s marble David in Florence’s Accademia Gallery continues to wow visitors. PHOTO: PEXELS

People are quick to foretell the end of things, from the prophets of old warning of the end of the world to US politicial scientist Francis Fukuyama’s more optimistic prognosis of the end of history after the Cold War.

Today, they have an equally hasty modern counterpart: those who have seen it fit to declare the death of analogue in all its forms.

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