Fine arts museums have grappled with questions of representation and cultural equity, as well as their historical role in imperialism and outright theft, and now their public programming reflects these discussions. Photograph: Gary Sexton/Courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San FranciscoA new exhibition at San Francisco’s Legion of Honor, Wangechi Mutu: I Am Speaking, Are You Listening?, speaks to this moment. Photograph: Randy Dodson/Courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San FranciscoThis exhibition flows from that. Photograph: Randy Dodson/Courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San FranciscoIt is certainly a demonstration of a museum’s yearning to move beyond guilt with concrete action. I Am Speaking asks the question of what a fine arts institution should do when it rejects those values yet embodies that very architecture.

Source: The Guardian May 08, 2021 09:56 UTC