Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest

In an age of protest, culture and museums have come under fire.

Protests of museum funding (for example, the Metropolitan Museum accepting Sackler family money) and boards (for example, the Whitney appointing tear gas manufacturer Warren Kanders) - to say nothing of demonstrations over exhibitions and artworks - have roiled cultural institutions across the world, from the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi to the Akron Art Museum.

In this book, Raicovich explains some of the key museum flashpoints, and she also provides historical context for the current controversies.

She shows how art museums arose as colonial institutions bearing an ideology of neutrality that masks their role in upholding capitalist values. And she suggests how museums can be reinvented to serve better, public ends.