"The Label Show": Contemporary Art and the Museum. (various artists, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts)

Art in America | October 1, 1994| | Copyright

In a show that reversed the customary relation between label and art work, Boston's MFA laid bare the underlying structure of the museum experience.

Few institutional designations seem as oxymoronic a department of contemporary art within an art museum. Insofar as contemporary art is by definition a product of the present, it remains apart from and outside of the principal criteria governing the process of museological inclusion. In other words, if the mandate of the art museum is taken to be the acquisition, care, housing, exhibition and preservation of what are ...

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