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

MoMA, New York—since Alfred Barr, the white cube has remained largely unchanged; only the façade has evolved.

An exterior photograph shows the Museum of Modern Art entrance on a city street, with a black-and-white facade, sidewalk visitors and a leafy tree in front.

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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