While doing some further research after reading Holland Cotter's October 27th article on "Globalism's New Spin" in mainstream New York galleries, I came upon another one of his articles from nearly a year ago. Titled "Toward a Museum of the 21st Century," Cotter laments on the art world's seeming lack of awareness of what a 21st century museum really is, despite being fifteen (at the time) years into it. A museum for the new century, the global century, is not simply a museum labeled for "contemporary" art with gigantism-based architecture that is really a piece of abstract sculpture in itself. Many new "contemporary art" museums feature work that was, indeed, pioneering in the late-20th century- at least in terms of content and media. Performance art, Conceptualism and photography were indeed new forms of art but were not new in subject matter and attitude: the views of the artists who made such pieces were formulated before the feminist movement, before the Black Panther movement and long before the global age. Plus, museum-goers are still by and large upper-class whites. A true 21st century museum will be built around a global view, with work from all reaches of the planet represented, and, possibly even more importantly, will draw far more people than just intellectual-class whites through its doors.
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April 2017
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