The Politics of the Museum Industry

The Guggenheim seems to have needed a scapegoat to absorb all of the nasty things being said about the museum and not just about race. What they found in the end was that Miss Spector was completely innocent, yet that didn't save her career. In Britain, for example, there's been a big push here to decolonize the collections,. When you put up a display with maybe stuff from the 18th century, you mentioned that Britain was heavily involved in the slave trade during that time. All of those kind of things are now creeping into art to deal particularly with the legacy of colonialism.