ART419/601  -  Cabinets of Curiosity: The History, Criticism and Aesthetics of Museums

Zaha Hadid: National Center for Contemporary Arts (MAXXI) in Rome, just completed in Nov. 2009

Electronic Readings (see syllabus for complete citations):

Barris, "Empowerment and Manipulation"

Duncan, "The Universal Survey Museum"

Hauptman, "Juries, Protests, and Counter-exhibitions"

Ward, "Impressionist installations"

Levi, "Judge for Yourselves"

Winton, "A Man's House is his Art,"

Clifford, "Helena Rubinstein's Beauty Salons, Fashion, and Modernist Display"

Belcher, Michael, "The Exhibition Brief," In Belcher, Exhibitions in Museums (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991).

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