A leading activist museum director explains why museums are at the center of a political storm
In an age of protest, cultural institutions have come under fire. Protestors have mobilized against sources of museum funding, as happened at the Metropolitan Museum, and against board appointments, forcing tear gas manufacturer Warren Kanders to resign at the Whitney. That is to say nothing of demonstrations against exhibitions and artworks. Protests have roiled institutions across the world, from the Abu Dhabi Guggenheim to the Akron Art Museum. A popular expectation has grown that galleries and museums should work for social change.
As Director of the Queens Museum, Laura Raicovich helped turn that New York muni- cipal institution into a public commons for art and activism, organizing high-powered exhibitions that doubled as political protests. Then in January 2018, she resigned, after a dispute with the Queens Museum board and city officials. This public controversy followed the museums responses to Donald Trumps election, including her objections to the Israeli government using the museum for an event featuring Vice President Mike Pence.
In this lucid and accessible book, Raicovich examines some of the key museum flashpoints and 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 conservative, capitalist values. And she suggests ways museums can be reinvented to serve better, public ends.
Recenzijos
Urgent -- Travis Diehl * art-agenda * [ Culture Strike] brilliantly problematizes the pervasive old myth of "neutrality." -- Dessane Lopez Cassell * Hyperallergic * A must-read ... Culture Strike contains layers of honest observation from museum professionals, loving critique, historical context, and case studies that illuminate the best and worst in museum culture to offer a clear path forward. -- Cara Ober * BmoreArt * Maps out thoughtful considerations of pressing subjects that apply everywhere. Among them are the private power of philanthropy, the practical and spiritual benefits of staff diversity, unionizing cultural institutions, and the contours of museums' social responsibility. -- Christopher Knight * Los Angeles Times * Offers key contextual and historical lenses through which to consider protests that have occurred at institutions worldwide, addressing topics from museum funding to workers' rights. * Ocula * An engaging and personally invested discussion of the many controversies that have engulfed American museums -- JJ Charlesworth * ArtReview *
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A leading activist museum director explains why museums are at the center of a political storm and how they can be reimagined
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
Laura Raicovich was president and executive director of the Queens Museum, and prior to that was with Creative Time and 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 co-edited Assuming Boycott: Resistance, Agency, and Cultural Production and is the author of At the Lightning Field and A Diary of Mysterious Difficulties.
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