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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.” …

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Madlove: A Designer Asylum

the vacuum cleaner, a UK-based art collective, recently ran an exhibition called Madlove: A Designer Asylum, in which they crafted an exhibit based on people with mental illness’s description of their ideal asylum. James Leadbitter, the lead artist behind the project and someone with experience in the asylum system, has said that since the exhibition he …

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Challenging Traditional Museums: Innocence & Elsewhere

The Turkish Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk created the Museum of Innocence, a physical museum that goes along with a novel that he wrote by the same title. Inspired by objects he encountered in thrift shops around Istanbul, he put this collection of objects in the museum and formed a love story around two protagonists based …

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