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In the Summer issue of Artforum:
The call is clear: Museums must change. Amid an ongoing global pandemic and growing demands for decolonization, racial justice, and economic parity, culture needs new tools for structural transformation. In the first of two special issues focusing on this urgent topic, Artforum has invited some of our leading theorists, curators, artists, and museum directors to consider how art institutions might evolve.
Included in this special section:
Thomas Crow envisions a more “modest” museum
“Horace’s ancient dictum that the task of art is at once to instruct and delight can hardly find a better home than inside a major museum collection.”
—Thomas Crow
“We are not going to sit on our hands and say, ‘The day Palestine is liberated, then we will open a museum.’ Palestine deserves a large, professionally run museum now, and we have it.”
—Adila Laïdi-Hanieh
“Through this act of creating community, of calling people in, you in fact center them.”
—Allison Glenn
“How do we look at, hold something not legible, intentionally illegible, private or public, and why should we?”
—Ralph Lemon
And: Andrew Russeth on Lee Bul, and more than thirty-five exhibition reviews from around the globe.
Plus: Michael Ned Holte on Barry Le Va, María Belén Correa and Cecilia Estalles speak with Devan Díaz and Thora Siemsen about El Archivo de la Memoria Trans Argentina, Catherine Damman on Tiffany Sia’s “Slippery When Wet,” Ara Osterweil on Alice Neel, Bárbara Sánchez-Kane shares her Top Ten, and much more.
