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Claire Bishop in conversation with Kate Fowle

Walther Konig, Cologne, 2014

Jun 12, 2014
7–8 pm

New York, NY, USA
192 Books

90 10th Ave
New York, NY 10011

Walther Konig, Cologne, 2014

FREE and open to the public

With austerity cuts to public funding, many contemporary art museums have been forced to scale down their budgets, staff and acquisitions. In Radical Museology, New York–based art historian Claire Bishop argues that the incommensurability of fiscal and cultural temporality--one fast, the other slower--points to an alternative world of values in which museums (and by extension, culture, education and democracy in general) are not subject to the banalities of a spreadsheet, but enable us to access a rich and diverse history, to question the present and to realize a different future. She discusses creative solutions implemented at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, the Museo Nacional de Reina Sofía in Madrid and MSUM in Ljubljana. "Radical Museology: Or, What's 'Contemporary' in Museums of Contemporary Art?" is a manifesto for the importance of a politicized representation of the contemporary in today’s art.

Presenters
Claire Bishop

Claire Bishop is a Professor of Art History at the CUNY Graduate Center.

Kate Fowle

Kate Fowle is Curatorial Senior Director at Hauser & Wirth.