NPF 567 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Museum Of Modern Art, Elgin Marbles, Class Discrimination
1 Nov 2016
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Exhibition practices: discuss how larger relationships of viewing/being viewed is entrenched in culture. White cube: very inside the gallery space, while ex practices more outward looking. How contemporary art/ex practices occur in locations where art historical conventions cross paths with social forces. Today we live in a networked world--influences art also. We no longer think only of the white cube; thinking and social habits associated with white cube are no longer with us. Smartphone = demise of the white cube, because: Brought other media into the space, where white cube was supposed to focus a way of looking. Wc was meant to remove us from bodies--disembodied space, vs interactive art that engages us. Wc is a way of looking/thinking/behaving; middle class leisure: this also changed because more people are attending museums, they are more public. Intrusion of interactive art, change in demographic, competing with other practices.
