The Right to the Museum
Race, Gender and Power in New York City’s Art Museums, 1966-1976
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 6 August 2026
- ISBN 9781350412279
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages224 pages
- Size 236x160x18 mm
- Weight 620 g
- Language
- Illustrations 31 bw illus 700
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Short description:
Explores how artists and activists reimagined museum spaces in New York in the 1960s and 70s, with each chapter focussed on a particular institution.
MoreLong description:
Who does the space of the museum really belong to? How can museums become sites of social change? What role can artists play in making museums more inclusive?
This book explores the ways in which New York City's art museums were actively reshaped and radically reimagined by artists in the 1960s and 70s. Through a messy array of protests - feminist sit---ins, theatrical performances, and placard waving pickets - artists asserted their authority over the institutions responsible for the display and collection of their work. But they also created their own; as neighborhood museums, artist projects and collective spaces. Presenting a rich history of spatial reclamation and appropriation, this book offers an innovative new reading of this intense period of artist-activism and museum making.
Each chapter focuses on a specific institution in New York, whilst making connections to urban movements for spatial justice. Drawn from archival research and new spatial readings of art activism, the book also charts the history of Black, Puerto Rican and feminist groups, and how institutions coopted their ideals to facilitate the expansion of museums in late capitalism.
At a time when museums are again sites of protest and politics, The Right to the Museum forms a crucial contribution to broader understanding of the history of museums, and the relationship between artists and society. In looking back, it recovers the potential of the museum as a site for social and political transformation.
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Museums, Artists and New York City
1. Inhabiting the Museum: Artists and the Brooklyn Museum Community Gallery
2. Liberation and destruction: Puerto Rican artists at the Museum of Modern Art
3. A feminist Meeting Place: MUSEUM: A Project for Living Artists
4. Developing an Artists' Museum: The Whitney Museum of American Art
5. Alien Places and Abandoned Spaces: PS1 and Queens Museums
Conclusion: A Return to the Right to the Museum
Timeline of Activist Events: New York from 1966-1976
Notes
Bibliography
Index
