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

Altering the relationship between the static painting, time and the viewer through augmented reality (AR): The Merging (2016–2026) by Nicola Verlato, Nuit Blanche Toronto, 2016.

A gallery scene shows several visitors gathered around an augmented-reality-style artwork or projection, with figures and geometric forms visible on the wall behind them.

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