Letter to an Encyclopedic Museum Curator

Rakowitz presents a letter to an Encyclopedic museum curator. In January 2020, Claire Bishop and Nikki Columbus published a speculative review of the newly expanded Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Their positive assessment of the MoMA opened up a new territory where criticism and visionary architecture...

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Published inGrey room Vol. 87; no. 87; pp. 108 - 114
Main Author Rakowitz, Michael
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published One Rogers Street, Cambridge, MA 02142-1209, USA MIT Press 01.04.2022
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Art galleries & museums
Curators
Museum exhibits
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Summary:Rakowitz presents a letter to an Encyclopedic museum curator. In January 2020, Claire Bishop and Nikki Columbus published a speculative review of the newly expanded Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Their positive assessment of the MoMA opened up a new territory where criticism and visionary architecture met. Visionary architecture, while often optimistically broadcasting a desire, is simultaneously rooted in inevitable failure. Given all that has been destroyed in Iraq, and the intersection of that destruction with the west's insatiable appetite for the objects of the east while not always, if ever, extending that concern to its people, this return of an original would be more than just restitutive.
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ISSN:1526-3819
1536-0105
DOI:10.1162/grey_a_00337