Point of No Return: Bard Art Historian Alex Kitnick on the Discontent with Museums
“If the postmodernism of the 1980s considered the museum to be in crisis and contemplated its ‘ruins,’ today many see these same institutions as frustratingly intact, as bulwarks against change, citadels to be stormed,” writes Professor Alex Kitnick in Artforum. “Where an earlier generation of artists associated with institutional critique pointed to the museum’s genetic incoherence, as well as to the incursion of corporate interests, today the museum itself stands as a purveyor of systemic and symbolic violence.” Alex Kitnick is assistant professor of art history and visual culture and Brant Foundation Fellow in Contemporary Arts at Bard College.
Post Date: 01-04-2021
Post Date: 01-04-2021