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Museums and Historical Justice: A Panel Discussion
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This video was taken during a panel discussion held on May 23, 2019 at the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School.
These are some of the questions that were discussed:
What is the role of museums in informing our understanding of the past? Do those who curate and present art to the public have a responsibility to make their collections reflect and unearth historical injustices? If so, how can this be accomplished without blurring the line between politics and art? Is there even such a line?
Panelists included Dana Miranda, a philosopher at the University of Connecticut; Oliver Wunsch, the Maher Curatorial Fellow of American Art at the Harvard Art Museums; and Layla Bermeo, Assistant Curator of American paintings at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
This panel was part of UMass Boston’s Ethics of Public Memory project and was sponsored by Mass Humanities.
These are some of the questions that were discussed:
What is the role of museums in informing our understanding of the past? Do those who curate and present art to the public have a responsibility to make their collections reflect and unearth historical injustices? If so, how can this be accomplished without blurring the line between politics and art? Is there even such a line?
Panelists included Dana Miranda, a philosopher at the University of Connecticut; Oliver Wunsch, the Maher Curatorial Fellow of American Art at the Harvard Art Museums; and Layla Bermeo, Assistant Curator of American paintings at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
This panel was part of UMass Boston’s Ethics of Public Memory project and was sponsored by Mass Humanities.