In the wake of postcolonial African independence, African intellectuals and politicians spearheaded a movement to pursue repatriation of artworks stolen during the colonial era and placed in Western museums. Art Historian and curator Bénédicte Savoy brings to light this largely unknown but deeply important...
2022 marks the centennial of the IARC’s collection of Native Southwest art and history. This year’s Speaker Series, One Hundred Years Later: The Indian Arts Research Center and the Role of Collections in the Twenty-First Century, seeks to explore the role of collections, then and now, and the...
“Proregress”: the allure of a word Looking back at the 12th Shanghai Biennale (2018-2019) with Cuauhtémoc Medina Friday, March 25 from 4:00 – 5:30 pm Modern Languages Building, Room 1220 This lecture will discuss the curatorial strategies of the 12th Shanghai Biennale, inspired by...
Worker cooperatives to build a solidarity economy, contemporary art that grapples with history and unleashes radical imaginations about our collective futures, everyday objects and labels written by public housing residents, cultural work that contributes to more just public policies and reparations, collective joy and civic love. Learn...
It’s Giving Blue Day! Consider supporting the Museum Studies Program. We have two options for support: the Museum Studies Endowment and our Director’s Strategic Fund. Both can be found here: https://givingblueday.org/o/university-of-michigan/i/giving-blueday-2022/p/the-arts-music-libraries-and-museums
Kudos to… Susan Dine (MSP15) who recently published an article in Berghahn Journals. “Critique, Dialogue, and Action: Museum Representation in Black Panther” can be viewed here.
