Opinion

Turning a museum into a vanity space

One of the oddest things I’ve seen in a museum was the first paragraph of a wall text at the 2008 exhibition “Los Angelenos/Chicano Painters of LA: Selections from the Cheech Marin Collection” at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. It explained, in unusually honest terms, why the exhibition was... >>>

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From issue 207, November 2009.
Published online 11 Nov 09 (opinion)

To dispose or not to dispose? An exhibition at UCL begs the question

Disposing of cultural artefacts in university collections

Is the deaccessioning debate the same when valuable art is not involved? >>>

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Published online 21 Oct 09 (opinion)

The arguments against Section 48

US v Stevens case poses serious threat to freedom of expression >>>

From issue 205, September 2009.
Published online 15 Sep 09 (opinion)

Closure of the Textile Conservation Centre will be a tragedy

Do we want to lose another national treasure and another worldwide resource? >>>

From issue 204, July/August 2009.
Published online 23 Jul 09 (opinion)

The New Museum responds

"This preeminent collection is one that many museums in the US would be honored to exhibit" >>>

From issue 208, December 2009.
Published online 11 Nov 09 (opinion)

Contemporary art in the Middle East

“Orientalism” is not the issue—we have art all of our own >>>

From issue 206, October 2009.
Published online 27 Sep 09 (opinion)

The arguments for Section 48

The law will not inhibit freedom of expression, only cruelty to animals >>>

From issue 205, September 2009.
Published online 15 Sep 09 (opinion)

African American art still needs support

The Obamas' actions have evinced an ability to transform the bully pulpit into a poetic perch >>>

From issue 204, July/August 2009.
Published online 16 Jul 09 (opinion)

Decentralisation poses a threat to the selection and protection of sites and buildings

Numerous buildings and sites in the Netherlands are still under threat >>>

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Published online 1 Jul 09 (opinion)

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