Practice question · Select all that apply
Which of these are accurate about institutional critique?
Hints
- Three are documented works and events; one misdescribes where the practice happened.
- Ask where a tour, in character, has to take place.
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- A. The Guggenheim cancelled the exhibition it was prepared for before it opened
- C. Haacke's Shapolsky et al. presented documented property holdings as an artwork
- D. Andrea Fraser's Museum Highlights delivered a museum tour in character
Why
The fourth reverses the essential condition. These works operate from inside the institutions they examine — a cancelled museum show, a museum tour, a gallery hang — and that is what gives them purchase. A critique delivered from outside would have no institutional frame to act on.
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