Resources

Exhibition Review: INTUIT: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art in Chicago, Illinois

A review of The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art in Chicago, Illinois, and its representation of works done by the mentally ill, made known to the art world by collectors like French painter Jean Dubuffet. 

Book Review: A Short Life of Trouble: Forty Years in the New York Art World

This book is packed with scandal, gossip, and amusing stories from Marcia Tucker's life about finding her place in the museum world, while relaying Tucker’s personal experiences with sexism and anti-Semitism show the dangers of prejudice – both inside and outside of the museum world.   

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.