What Fits in the Museum? a Critical Approach to the Art Museum

Authors

  • Luiz Sérgio de Oliveira Instituto de Arte e Comunicação Social. Universidade Federal Fluminense

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24215/24691488e048

Keywords:

Art, politics, utopia, democracy, art museum

Abstract

In this article we seek to critically reflect on the place that belongs to the art that is wanted and that becomes political in the contemporary, with the expectation that a debate will emerge on these manifestations of political art and, more specifically, if they fit (or not) in disciplined spaces of the art museum. To this end, we take the exhibition Arte Democracia Utopia - quem não luta tá morto, held by the Rio Art Museum between the months of September 2018 and May 2019, as a place of observation and starting point for our reflections.

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Published

2020-05-21

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de Oliveira, L. S. (2020). What Fits in the Museum? a Critical Approach to the Art Museum. Arte E Investigación, (17), e048. https://doi.org/10.24215/24691488e048

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No. 17 (2020): Arte e Investigación 17

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Articles

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