Patricia HUANG

Can you collect artworks that have yet stood the test of time? Can you preserve performance art? How do you interpret contemporary art in a museum setting? This course provides a broad introduction to the museum world: their mission, their nature and their work. It is organized around the key professional activities of museums such as collecting, conserving, exhibiting, interpreting and educating with a special focus on contemporary art. The emphasis is on theories as well as practices, and students are expected to gain an understanding of the responsibilities of museum prefessionals.

Indicative references :

• Bruce Altshuler (Ed.), Collecting the New: Museums and Contemporary Art. Princeton University Press, New Jersey, 2005.
• ICOM, Museum Definition. https://icom.museum/en/activities/standards-guidelines/museum-definition/, 2019
• Brian O’Doherty, Inside the White Cube, University of California Press, CA., 2000.
• Sarah Macdonald (Ed.), A Companion to Museum Studies. Blackwell Pub, Malden, MA., 2006.