Resources

Book Review: Spirited Encounters: American Indians Protest Museum Policies and Practices

This book explores how protests by Native Americans made museums better places.

Exhibiting Art Conservation as an Ethical Mandate

An exhibition review of Imageless: The Scientific Study and Experimental Treatment of an Ad Reinhardt Black Painting, at the Guggenheim Museum that explores the new ways that the museum is building the relationship between visitor and the behind the scenes work of the institution.

Book Review: Tourists of History

America has become subject to the new trend of the "kitschification of cultural memory," Read about how memorial sites are treading the line between reverence and spectacle.

Exhibition Review - RACE: Are We So Different?

A traveling exhbit takes on the enormous task of presenting a dialogue that summarizes the historical, scientific and cultural meanings of the concept of race. How did it do?

Book Review: Museum Revolutions

While the central thesis of Museum Revolutions, is deceptively simple, the reader quickly discovers a surprisingly complex and intellectually satisfying network of sub-themes and contexts.