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Curatorial activism : towards an ethics of curating /

Current art world statistics demonstrate that the fight for gender and race equality in the art world is far from over: only sixteen percent of this year's Venice Biennale artists were female; only fourteen percent of the work displayed at MoMA in 2016 was by nonwhite artists; only a third of a...

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Main Author: Reilly, Maura (Author)
Other Authors: Lippard, Lucy R. (writer of foreword.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: [London] ; New York : Thames & Hudson, [2018]
Subjects:
Art and society.
Art museums > Curatorship.
Art > Exhibitions > Philosophy.
Art > Exhibitions > Social aspects.
Art museum curators.
Artists and art museum curators.
Art museum curators > Political activity.
Sex discrimination against women.
Race discrimination.
ISBN:0500239703
9780500239704
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Lucy R. Lippard
  • Preface
  • What is curatorial activism?
  • Resisting masculinism and sexism
  • Tackling white privilege and Western-centrism
  • Challenging heterocentrism and lesbo-homophobia
  • A call to arms: Strategies for change.

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