ISSUE 75 (SPRING 2023): The Museum Issue

That is a shift in purpose that museums have been making for twenty to thirty years and is gaining in momentum, especially as Covid-19 is making deep social inequities widely visible. Post-Covid, it will be all the more important.

In its entrepreneurial excess, the project is a hyperbolic expression of an institutional intolerance of whatever obscures or prevents an instrumentalized and unending condition of visibility.

For several decades, the price of this belief has been creatives’ difficulty in conceiving of their work as labour – and by extension, to benefit from the gains of other workers’ struggles.