Laura Raicovich

Culture Strike (eBook, ePUB)

Art and Museums in an Age of Protest

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In an age of protest, culture and museums have come under fire. Protests of museum funding (for example, the Metropolitan Museum accepting Sackler family money) and boards (for example, the Whitney appointing tear gas manufacturer Warren Kanders)--to say nothing of demonstrations over exhibitions and artworks--have roiled cultural institutions across the world, from the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi to the Akron Art Museum. At the same time, never have there been more calls for museums to work for social change, calls for the emergence of a new role for culture.

As director of the Queens Museum, Laura Raicovich helped turn that New York municipal institution into a public commons for art and activism, organizing high-powered exhibitions that were also political protests. Then in January, 2018, she resigned, after a dispute with the Queens Museum board and city officials became a public controversy--she had objected to the Israeli government using the museum for an event featuring vice president Mike Pence.

In this book, Raicovich explains some of the key museum flashpoints, and she also provides historical context for the current controversies. She shows how art museums arose as colonial institutions bearing an ideology of neutrality that masks their role in upholding capitalist values. And she suggests how museums can be reinvented to serve better, public ends.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Verso
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781839760518
• Artikelnr.: 61963126

Autorenporträt

Laura Raicovich was President and Executive Director of the Queens Museum, and most recently served as Interim Director of the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art. Prior to that she worked at Creative Time and the Dia Art Foundation. She is a recipient of both the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Fellowship and the inaugural Emily H. Tremaine Journalism Fellowship for Curators at Hyperallergic. She coedited Assuming Boycott: Resistance, Agency, and Cultural Production and is the author of At the Lightning Field and A Diary of Mysterious Difficulties.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Revelations Artist Nan Goldin and the Sackler Family
The Historical Roots of Museums
The Untenability of the Universal
Progressive Era Reform 2. Art and Context Colonialism and Repatriation
Dana Schutz at the Whitney
The Philip Guston Retrospective
Sam Durant at the Walker 3. Show Me the Money Questions for Philanthropy
Warren Kanders, Tear Gas, and the Whitney
Reimagining Public Funding
Questioning Governance 4. Unlearning, Undoing, Remaking Alternate Storytellings
Approaches to Decolonization and Indigenization
Survivance 5. The Neutrality Problem Spilled Ink
Materializing the Neutral
Working toward the "Not-Yet" 6. Going Forward Who Is "We"?
Collective Work
Invitations to Participate
Public Culture 7. Liberation Serif COVID-19
Breath
Reckonings and Demands