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

Marina Abramovic performing “The Artist Is Present” at MoMA, New York, May 2010, staging the triumph of experience over knowledge.

A performance scene shows two people seated across from each other at a simple wooden table while a small audience watches from the surrounding gallery space.

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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