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Culture Strike - Art and Museums in an Age of Protest (Hardcover)
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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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