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Arts, Politics, Museums: New Issues, New Actors
Tuesday, October 15, 2019 6:30PM - 8:00PM
Columbia University Journalism School - Pulitzer Hall - World Room
Panel discussion featuring:
Richard Armstrong| Director, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum & Foundation
Betti-Sue Hertz| Director & Chief Curator, Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University
Alisa LaGamma| Ceil & Michael E. Pulitzer Curator in Charge, Arts of Africa, Oceania, & the Americas, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Arts have been periodically but consistently subjected to political pressures. Now, in many parts of the world, new voices are clamoring to constrain artistic expression & presentations of works of art. Even the traditional issues of cultural repatriation have taken on new urgency as the cause has been taken on by new actors. Social media platforms are creating new possibilities for artists to become politically engaged & the same platforms are utilized to instantaneously create social movements to destroy works of art seen as unpalatable to special groups. At the same time, politically conservative leaders in many parts of the world are using populist strategies & sophisticated social media platforms to put new pressures on artists & arts institutions.
The goal of this panel is to create a thoughtful conversation about the role of museums in dealing with these new pressures. We will address not only the issues of identity & class politics, but also the repatriation questions that are raging high in Europe after the Macron report. What does this mean for U.S. museums? How do institutions plan to move forward in this new climate?
Held as part of thePolitics of Visual Arts in a Changing World research project of the Committee on Global Thought, this panel discussion will be moderated by Vishakha N. Desai, project leader & Committee Vice Chair.This event is made possible through the generous support of theAndy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Co-sponsors of the event include: ArtTable, Columbia University School of the Arts, & the Undergraduate Committee on Global Thought.
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