The Crisis of the Museum Is the Crisis of the White Cube

From passive observer to active participant: a visitor engaging with an artwork through an app such as WonderWay, where interpretation becomes dialogic rather than institutional.

A museum visitor wearing an earbud holds up a phone while looking closely at a large blue and orange abstract painting.

What’s the use of decolonizing the canon, decolonizing the collection and decolonizing the program if we don’t decolonize the white cube itself—the container that still structures how art is seen, experienced, classified and legitimized?

The Crisis of the Museum Is the Crisis of the White Cube
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