‘It’s Pretty Dead-On’: Curator Laura Raicovich on a 1954 Article About the State of Western Museums
about 38 months ago (03/19/2021)
Laura Raicovich on a 1954 Article About the State of Western Museums – ARTnews.com Skip to main content By Alex Greenberger Plus Icon Alex Greenberger Senior Editor, ARTnews View All March 19, 2021 1:39pm ©ARTnews Today, critics of museums’ values point to histories of colonialism and structural racism. Museums, they insist, are anything but neutral. In an essay titled “The Ideal Museum” in the January 1954 issue of ARTnews , British art historian Kenneth Clark considered the hidden politics behind Western institutions, exploring the ways that millennia-old collecting habits among the wealthy influenced how museums were run.