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Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest, Laura Raicovich
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Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest, Laura Raicovich

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A leading activist museum director explains why museums are at the centre of a political storm and how they can be reimagined

In an age of protest, cultural institutions have come under fire. Protestors have mobilised 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 municipal institution into a public commons for art and activism, organising 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 museum’s responses to Donald Trump’s 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.

Published by Verso
Hardcover
224 pages
147 x 217 mm
ISBN 9781839760501

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