Moral Museums As a part of a Museums special, the New York Times published an article titled Making Museums Moral Again. The article calls attention to the funding and ethics that lie beneath the institutions, usually unbeknowst to their visitiors. “But the reality that museums are, or can be, ethically and politically compromised had been exposed.” … Continue reading "Moral Museums"
Commercial Spectacle & Public Art Why I can’t take any commentary on Beyonce’s Super Bowl Halftime performance serious…on either side. Pedro Lasch states early in the first lecture that “public art has always been a great way to understand entire societies. It’s through our definition of the public that we define the relations between the visible, the invisible, the national and … Continue reading "Moral Museums"
