Whatever Puts Butts In Seats . . .

It takes creativity to foster the next generation of museumgoers:

This spring the venerable New York Historical Society’s Saturday Academy will offer a series of free courses meant to bring history alive for young people. The series, which also includes free SAT prep for students in grades 10 – 12, runs from March 10 to April 28.

In the hip-hop class, called “Hip-Hop In Context,” students will listen to pivotal songs like “Cop Killer” by Ice-T’s 1990s group Body Count [. . .]

The truly sad thing is that the heavy metal crossover of Body Count was actually pretty terrible . . .