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

Participation as a relational process in which the institution and the public jointly construct meaning rather than passively consume it.

A group discussion shows people seated in a circle in a bright arts space while one man speaks into a microphone.

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