Nizan Shaked - Form and Finance: Museums at the Public/Private Divide Lecture details The American museum in the 21st century is a system where the category of the public is used to serve the agendas of a patron class. This lecture will take the reopening of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and its adoption of the Fisher collection (assembled by the late owner of The Gap) to show the connection between financial and aesthetic mediations in the nonprofit museum structure by tracing how donations are procured, art, collected, funds, administered, a building, designed and built, and commitments towards the curatorial and educational programs, made. In the transition between the financial and administrative aspects of the museum and its aesthetics, the term “public” is used under varying disciplinary and professional logics. The lecture will demonstrate how these differences in definition are manipulated, making the museum part of the machine that moves wealth upwards, places limits on the curatorial program, and ideologically restricts culture. Speaker details Dr Nizan Shaked is professor of contemporary art history, museum and curatorial studies, at California State University Long Beach. Her book The Synthetic Proposition: Conceptualism and the Political Referent in Contemporary Art (Manchester University Press, 2017) is a Wyeth Foundation for American Art College Art Association Publication grantee (2015). She is currently working on Museums, the Public, and the Value of Art: The Political Economy of Art Collections. Find out more on The Synthetic Proposition: Conceptualism and the Political Referent in Contemporary Art (external link) Jul 10 2017 17.15 - 18.30 Nizan Shaked - Form and Finance: Museums at the Public/Private Divide This lecture shows the connection between financial and aesthetic mediations in the nonprofit museum structure. Hunter Building, Hunter Lecture Theatre (017) 74 Lauriston Place Edinburgh EH3 9DF Find out more about the lecture location
Nizan Shaked - Form and Finance: Museums at the Public/Private Divide Lecture details The American museum in the 21st century is a system where the category of the public is used to serve the agendas of a patron class. This lecture will take the reopening of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and its adoption of the Fisher collection (assembled by the late owner of The Gap) to show the connection between financial and aesthetic mediations in the nonprofit museum structure by tracing how donations are procured, art, collected, funds, administered, a building, designed and built, and commitments towards the curatorial and educational programs, made. In the transition between the financial and administrative aspects of the museum and its aesthetics, the term “public” is used under varying disciplinary and professional logics. The lecture will demonstrate how these differences in definition are manipulated, making the museum part of the machine that moves wealth upwards, places limits on the curatorial program, and ideologically restricts culture. Speaker details Dr Nizan Shaked is professor of contemporary art history, museum and curatorial studies, at California State University Long Beach. Her book The Synthetic Proposition: Conceptualism and the Political Referent in Contemporary Art (Manchester University Press, 2017) is a Wyeth Foundation for American Art College Art Association Publication grantee (2015). She is currently working on Museums, the Public, and the Value of Art: The Political Economy of Art Collections. Find out more on The Synthetic Proposition: Conceptualism and the Political Referent in Contemporary Art (external link) Jul 10 2017 17.15 - 18.30 Nizan Shaked - Form and Finance: Museums at the Public/Private Divide This lecture shows the connection between financial and aesthetic mediations in the nonprofit museum structure. Hunter Building, Hunter Lecture Theatre (017) 74 Lauriston Place Edinburgh EH3 9DF Find out more about the lecture location
Jul 10 2017 17.15 - 18.30 Nizan Shaked - Form and Finance: Museums at the Public/Private Divide This lecture shows the connection between financial and aesthetic mediations in the nonprofit museum structure.
