The Last Page

At the new Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, you don’t, as you do at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, get a bright tin badge to wear once you have paid admission. Instead, you get the back of your hand stamped, the way they do at high school dances. It is a small gesture, but like the decision to have the Rock Hall of Fame guards dress in berets and black T-shirts, as if they were the security at a rock concert, it is a gesture that says much about the spiri...