Seminar Session 3_Texts — CPM Gallery

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CPM Gallery

Seminar Session #3: Museums & Ruins

What is at stake today and in the long term?

Readings:

Reading 1: Causality: Ruin Time and Ruins, Florence M. Hetzler, 1988

Reading 2: Martin Kippenberger's MOMAS, or Museum of Modern Art Syros (1993-1997)

Reading 3: institutions, critique, and institutional critique, Alexander Alberro (2009)
(read this history of institutional critique as necessary)

Reading 4: As Radical, As Mother, As Salad, As Shelter: What Should Art Institutions Do Now? (2018)
(read the first few selections and then as interested. Think about your answers to this questions for discussion)

Optional Extra Credit :) - Scott passed along this recent article about “How art stars are made” and the connection between Museums and mega galleries—its a short piece that could help inform our conversation