News & Publications

March 8: What’s the Object of this Museum?  Everyday Resistance at the National Public Housing Museum 

Tuesday, March 8 at 5:30 pm, UM Museum of Art (Helmut Stern Auditorium) 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...

L’Internationale and the Democracy Pavilion for Europe

L’Internationale’s Democracy Pavilion for Europe aims to reenergize democracy as a desire and practice. It takes the arts’ potential as a starting point for imagining new epistemologies and ethics of living together within the limits of the planet. The pavilion responds to the current political moment...

Alumni kudos!

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.

Support MSP on Giving Blue Day!

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

What’s the Object of this Museum?  Everyday Resistance at the National Public Housing Museum

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...

March 25 – “Proregress”: the allure of a word. Looking back at the 12th Shanghai Biennale (2018-2019) with Cuauhtémoc Medina

“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...