... Planning Exhibition Hall Shiloh R. Krupar Office of Impression Management1 (Voice: satirical tour guide) Hello, China watchers. In an effort to raise your consciousness of China’s urban transition, our short tour...

...Robert McCarthy Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Public Culture Pictures at an Exhibition Robert McCarthy In the late 1970s, the photographic work of Cindy Sherman attracted the atten- tion...

...Anya Bernstein This article looks at recent Russian lawsuits accusing artists and curators of “inciting religious hatred.” It seeks to explain the reasons behind these controversies by considering the respective scopic regimes informing several exhibits and subsequent trials from 1998 to 2010. One...

...Éric Fassin; Judith Surkis A public scandal that followed the 2005 exhibition of Tanja Ostojić's remake of Courbet's L'origine du monde revealed the contemporary sexual politics of the European Union. This essay analyzes how what was at stake in this “obscenity” was not the sex but rather...

...Fred Turner In 1955 the Museum of Modern Art in New York opened one of the most popular photography exhibitions of all time: The Family of Man . Visitors marveled at images hung over their heads, mounted by their feet, and dangling in midair. This essay shows how The Family of Man and its mode...

... to a conference held at the Ethnological Museum in Berlin in 2018; and disturbs Emmanuel Macron's 2017 speech at the University of Ouagadougou and the 2018 French presidential report on restitution. It shows how provenance exhibits epistemicide as it restitutes “looted” art to colonial beneficiaries, and how...

...: 21 -28. Clifford, James. 1988 . On Orientalism. In The predicament of culture: Twentieth-century ethnography, literature, and art . Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ———. 1991 . Four northwest coast museums: Travel reflections. In Exhibiting cultures: The poetics and politics of museum...

... like to thank anonymous reviewers and the editorial staff at Public Culture for their comments. Literature Cited Ames , Michael . 1991 . “Biculturalism in Exhibits.” Museum Anthropology 15 ( 2 ): 7 -15. Anderson , Benedict . 1991 . Imagined Communities: Reflections...

... Museum of American History (then called the National Museum of History and Technology) opened the doors of an exhibit called “A Nation of Nations” in celebration of the national bicentennial.’ The exhibit is still open, if in a truncated form, and has since been visited by an estimated four...

... of Melbourne I hate travelling and explorers. Yet here I am proposing to tell the story of my expeditions Ammonia, Tibet and Africa fill the bookshops in the form of travelogues, accounts of exhibitions and collections of photographs, in all of which the desire to impress is so dominant...

... it was exhibited in Beijing in February 1989 fell into two general categories. On the one hand, there were those who saw the piece as a mockery of Chinese tradition. On the other hand, some saw it as a meditation on culture. Neither of these categories, however, quite captures the reaction of Charles...

... courtesy of the artist. Text marked with asterisk (written by Britta Erickson for the exhibition catalog) provided courtesy of the Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin- Madison. Photographs courtesy of Elvehjem Museum of Art. Public Culture 1993, 5: 317-327 @ 1993...

...- cal because the practices of this art—its production and circulation, exhibition and collection, reproduction and publication—are all closely related to China’s new economic system and to globalization. It is relatively simple to conduct...

...Figure 2 Photograph of interior of the Group 57 exhibition space from the second floor, 1979. Courtesy of Nicky Nodjoumi. ...

... located campus, just off the main shopping street of Wangfujing, is rather nondescript, except for its public showplace, the Exhibition Hall where the works of this student elite of “socialist successors” Public Culture lO(3): 609-616 Copyright 0 1998 by Duke University Press...

...Arnold Mesches © 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 Arnold Mesches's The FBI Files was exhibited in 2002 at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, an affiliate of the Museum of Modern Art; it was his 103rd solo exhibition. Mesches's works are in the permanent collections of many museums...

... in Korea . New York:M. E. Sharpe. Kim Nan-gi. 1994 . Kinyŏmkwaninga pakmulkwaninga? [Is it a memorial or a museum?]. Plus 7 : 170 -73. Korean War Memorial Overseeing Committee (KWMOC). 1990 . Chŏngaeng kinyomgwan je jeŏnsi yŏnch'ul kyehoek [Exhibition display plans for the War Memorial...