Museums and Wealth Shaked Nizan California State University USA
Museums and Wealth Shaked Nizan California State University USA A critical analysis of contemporary art collections and the value form, this book shows why the nonprofit system is unfit to administer…
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Museums and Wealth Shaked Nizan California State University USA
A critical analysis of contemporary art collections and the value form, this book shows why the nonprofit system is unfit to administer our common collections, and offers solutions for diversity reform and redistributive restructuring.In the United States, institutions administered by the nonprofit system have an ambiguous status as they are neither entirely private nor fully public. The public serves as alibi for establishing the symbolic value of art, which sustains its monetary value and its markets.This structure allows for wealthy individuals at the helm to gain financial benefits from, and ideological control over, what is at its core purpose a public system. Among nonprofits, the museum is unique as it is the only institution where trustees tend to collect the same objects they hold in "public trust" on behalf of the nation, if not humanity.
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