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

From passive contemplation to entering the artist’s dreams—I Will Sleep When I Am Dead (2023-26), a virtual reality installation by Jeanne Susplugas, Imagi-Nature Art Festival, Joali, Maldives, 2023.

A composite image shows three panels: a painted dog in a surreal landscape, a woman wearing a virtual-reality headset and another pale blue painted landscape with branching black forms and small figures.

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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