“Contemporary Art Practices and the Museum: To Be Reconciled at All?.”

Review

“Then there are the projects that examine the museum itself: Andrea Fraser’s gallery talks, Fred Wilson’s provocative revisioning of museums’ collections, Ute Meta Bauer and Fareed Armaly’s look behind the scenes of the Louisiana Museum in Denmark for the Now/Here show in 1996, and numerous other projects where artists have storage areas made accessible, involve the security staff, or rent out their exhibition space to a commercial car dealer as a showcase for the latest BMW model.”

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