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Episode Three:

The Background Characters of Art History

Featuring:

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Megan Scarborough

More on Fred Wilson

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Fred Wilson with a remodeled 1904 Dollhouse as part of the "Mining the Museum" exhibition
Fred Wilson with Dollhouse, Mining the Museum, 1992
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Click below to learn more about "Mining the Museum"

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More on Titus Kaphar

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Watch his "Can Art Amend History?" TED Talk below

Suggested Reading

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Decolonizing Museums: Representing Native America in National and Tribal Museums by Amy Lonetree, PhD. 

An excellent resource for the complexities regarding indigenous representation in American museums. 

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Curatorial Activism: Towards an Ethics of Curating by Maura Reilly, PhD. 

A crucial read in museum studies and the future of art curation as a tool to decolonize museums. Like the Guerilla Girls. But for academics. 

More on Kent Monkman

(on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC)

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Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, from Dance to Miss Chief, 2010

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References

  • The Met. (2019, Dec 20). Artist Interview—Kent Monkman: mistikôsiwak (Wooden Boat People) | Met Exhibitions [Video]. Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwNpUevsKzc

  • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. (2019, June 3). Fred Wilson Museum Interventions [Video]. Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T31_hfpSnDc

  • Kaphar, T. (2017). Can Art Amend History? [Video]. Retrieved from: https://www.ted.com/talks/titus_kaphar_can_art_amend_history?language=en#t-752795

  • Kent Monkman: Biography. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.kentmonkman.com/biography

  • Kwakwaka’wakw (Kwakiutl) People (late 19th century) Crooked Beak of Heaven Mask [Wood, plant fiber, cord, pigment]. New York, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

  • National Museum of the American Indian. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://americanindian.si.edu/

  • Lonetree, A. (2012). Decolonizing museums: Representing Native America in National and Tribal Museums. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press. (pp. 1-28). 

  • Lonetree, A. (2012). Decolonizing museums: Representing Native America in National and Tribal Museums. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press. (pp. 73-122).

  • Reilly, M., & Lippard, L. R. (2018). Curatorial activism: towards an ethics of curating. London: Thames & Hudson. (pp. 118-123).             

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