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2016 - in Museums, Money, and Politics (Paperback)
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2016 - in Museums, Money, and Politics (Paperback)
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Both institutional critique and reference work, documenting the
intersection of politics (in the form of political donations) and
art museums. 2016 in Museums, Money, and Politics examines the
intersection of electoral politics and private-nonprofit art
institutions in the United States at a pivotal historical moment.
In a massive volume that is both institutional critique and
reference work, the artist Andrea Fraser documents the reported
political contributions made by trustees of more than 125 art
museums, representing every state in the nation, in the 2016
election cycle. With campaigning that featured attacks on
vulnerable populations, the vilification of the media and "cultural
elites," and calls to curtail civil rights and liberties, the 2016
election cycle and its aftermath transformed national politics. It
was also the most expensive election in American history, with over
$6.4 billion raised for presidential and congressional races
combined. More than half of this money came from just a few hundred
people-many of whom also support cultural institutions and serve on
their boards. 2016is organized like a telephone book. Contribution
data is laid out alphabetically by name of donor. With this and
other data filling more than 900 pages, the book offers a material
representation of scale of the interface between cultural
philanthropy and campaign finance in America. It also provides an
unparalleled resource for exploring the politics of the museum
world. 2016 includes an afterword by Jamie Stevens, the former
curator and head of programs at CCA Wattis Institute for
Contemporary Arts in San Francisco, who traces the book's
development; an introduction by Andrea Fraser elaborating on the
links connecting cultural philanthropy, campaign finance, and
plutocracy; a section on each museum represented; and a section
including data summaries and additional data. The book presents a
powerful argument that supporting the arts must involve more than
giving donations to museums; it must also include defending the
values, social structures, and political institutions of an open,
tolerant, just, and equitable society. Copublished by Westreich
Wagner Publications, the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary
Arts, and the MIT Press
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