Even in the questions that we choose to raise and the
exhibits we choose to mount, do we reveal a commitment
to one side of a "cultural contest" or another.

Just a thought.

--- "Terri McNichol, Ren Associates"
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hello fellow listers,
>
> There is a review of Steven C. Dubin's book titled
> "Displays of Power:
> Controversies in the American Museum from the Enola
> Gay to Sensation,
> published by New York Univ. Press in the magazine
> America. Tom O'Brien
> is the reviewer and is formerly of the National
> Endowment for the
> Humanities and is now the managing editor of Arts
> Education Policy
> Review in Washington DC.
>
> One point the reviewer makes is that "in the
> 'progressive' veiw Dubin
> represents, museums are either 'crucibles of change'
> or the 'pleasant
> refuges' of the past. But why either/or? Why can't
> museums eschew
> predommitments to change or the status quo, and
> simply be educational
> institutions--raising questions, but not foreclosing
> them with
> prescribed answeres? Are the only options to hype or
> ignore harsh
> truths--in current lingo, either 'contestation' or
> 'triumphalism'? Must
> the culture wars, in short, become one vast episode
> of 'Crossfire,'
> featuring--'on the left'--half of our national
> bipolar disorder and--'on
> the right'--its idelogical twin."
>
> What say the listers regarding the above statement?!
>
> I have the review in hard copy, but if you want to
> get an electronic
> copy you can go to www.americapress.org and get a
> copy for $1.50.
>
> Respectfully submitted by
>
> Terri McNichol
> Museum Consultant
>
>
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