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Social Text (2023) 41 (2 (155)): 19–44.
Published: 01 June 2023
...Gavin Grindon Abstract This article examines the turn in Anglophone protest cultures since 2007 toward curating, museums, and heritage: a rise in the toppling of statues, demonstrations inside museums, and the creation of exhibitions, displays, and archives within the ephemeral spaces of protest...
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Published: 01 June 2023
Figure 1. Number of articles about protest inside or directly outside museums and galleries, January 2000 – December 2021, in the EBSCO Art Full Text archive, the Guardian , and New York Times . My thanks to Jennie Williams for her Natural Language Processing work to produce this timeline. More
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Social Text (2008) 26 (2 (95)): 83–103.
Published: 01 June 2008
... and that are being transformed in the new state. While the fort has changed from local and regional political-military center to national museum, helping shape more abstract and impersonal relationships to the past, the town's crumbling wall, whose origin myth and grandeur are no longer legitimized as an emblem...
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Social Text (2001) 19 (2 (67)): 127–156.
Published: 01 June 2001
... Giuliani of New York attacked the Brooklyn Museum of Art for its plan to present “Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection,” calling work in the show “sick stuff” that “desecrates religion.” Giuliani’s attacks were widely seen as politically motivated...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (1 (106)): 103–125.
Published: 01 March 2011
... scientific societies, the disciplines of anatomy and zoology, and the emergence of the modern museum.3 Its development parallels the use of older techniques of “dry” tissue preservation, including taxidermy, dry mounting...
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Social Text (2002) 20 (2 (71)): np.
Published: 01 June 2002
... and conference “Race in Dig- ital Space,” and at the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Santa Monica Museum of Art as part of the exhibition Freestyle. Tracie Morris is a multidisciplinary performance poet who has worked in theater, dance, music, and film and teaches performance poetry at Sarah Lawrence...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (1 (106)): 71–101.
Published: 01 March 2011
... by the caption that accompanies Godfrey Kneller’s portrait of Sloane (1716), which hangs in the Royal Society. The caption informs visitors that Sloane formed the foundation collection of the British Museum — ­and invented milk choco- late. It is to this inviting juxtaposition between collection...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (2 (107)): 99–117.
Published: 01 June 2011
.../ American/Modern Art: Shifting Currents, 1900–1970 displayed a wide range of visual art by Americans of Asian descent in major museums in both San Francisco and New York.6 Reflecting on the exhibition and the relationship between art and Asian America in general, Gordon H. Chang suggests...
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Social Text (2024) 42 (2 (159)): 35–52.
Published: 01 June 2024
... as valorized mental laborer,” 19 this modernist impulse of artistic exceptionality has made the museum, university, and nonprofit particularly good sites for implementing modalities of neoliberal governance. Today, contemporary cultural institutions offer to play the role of benevolent mediator between...
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Social Text (2010) 28 (2 (103)): np.
Published: 01 June 2010
... museum exhibitions for the Northern Cape Legislature, the Mandela Foundation through the Centre of Memory, and the museums of Constitution Hill. His paintings, prints, sculpture, and environmental art, for which he has received inter- national awards, address issues of body, eros, memory, land...
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Social Text (2002) 20 (4 (73)): 29–46.
Published: 01 December 2002
...- formance art or performance studies from the museum, or from art- history curricula creates a serious credibility issue. It is nonetheless clear that the incorporation of performance art within the museum or art- 32 Soussloff/Franko...
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Social Text (2008) 26 (4 (97)): np.
Published: 01 December 2008
... University Press). Alexis Peskine’s art, which investigates racism, nationalism, and anti- Semitism in French and U.S. culture, has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, and at galleries including Rush Arts...
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Social Text (2001) 19 (3 (68)): 35–55.
Published: 01 September 2001
... to take pictures of it for someone who was building a model of one for a museum in Muscat. I agreed to help, and when I returned to Bahla a couple days later, I walked back to the well, which still stood quiet and unused. This time, though, two young children, seeing me...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (3 (108)): 127–138.
Published: 01 September 2011
... in major group shows at such venues as the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, the Queens Museum of Art, New York, and the Brooklyn Museum, New York. In the United States, Shah’s artworks are frequently misread as visible evidence of what it means to be Muslim or Pakistani in post...
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Social Text (2006) 24 (3 (88)): np.
Published: 01 September 2006
..., and metaphor. His works have been screened on PBS, at the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, Lincoln Center, Telluride, the New York Expo, and in many international venues. Michele G. Shedlin is the Charles T. and Shirley L. Leavell Professor of Health Sciences II and a senior fellow...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (1 (126)): 75–96.
Published: 01 March 2016
...), forms that are disjunctive with the formalized archaicization of memory promoted by the historical monument, the museum, or the archaeological site. All three exhibit death as a legible permanence attached to clearly defined cultural-­civilizational...
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Social Text (2004) 22 (4 (81)): 113–139.
Published: 01 December 2004
... of those in charge of cultural explanations, who visit museums and exhibitions. The British critic Raymond Williams would call this restraining effect the “residual” pulling back the cultural process. I spent...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (2 (127)): 143–160.
Published: 01 June 2016
..., the “multitude.” Baudrillard already wrote long ago about how the very nature of the museum has changed, and we know that in the old days you could go to the great museums and nobody was ever there. Nowadays these are big shows, you pay a lot of money, you sometimes have to make a reservation—so there’s...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (2 (127)): 89–107.
Published: 01 June 2016
...” colonialism (Kasfir begins her account with the Berlin Conference of 1884–85 and the start of the so-called scramble for Africa) and the current conjuncture. Whereas the former was characterized by “the specimen-collecting of natural history museums” that was enabled by the acquisition of African colonies...
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Social Text (2024) 42 (3 (160)): 1–26.
Published: 01 September 2024
... a storage unit in the basement of a museum.” 37 Bishouty is not alone in curating her family's archive. Cultural historian Sherene Seikaly has described the trove of documents she inherited from her aunt, which includes her great-grandfather's personal and business letters, memorandum forms, stocks, land...
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