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

Mies van der Rohe’s ladies’ sitting room converted into exhibition space since 1955, Haus Lange. The bourgeois interior becomes the museum, Krefeld, 2017.

An interior photograph shows a spare modern gallery room with parquet floors, a small stone sculpture on the floor, a framed geometric work on the wall and a long wooden shelf.

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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