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Article: Fracturing the Imperial Mind.(Victoria and Albert Museum and Serpentine Gallery collaborate on exhibition in London)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- July 1, 2001
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Hans Haacke and Serpentine Gallery chief curator Lisa Corrin recently subjected the Victoria and Albert Museum collection to a revealing critical intervention.
It has become a commonplace to assert that museums embody ideologies. Today one rarely hears them extolled as neutral temples of timeless art, exemplars of the disinterested study of art history or monuments to informed consensus. Instead, they are more likely viewed as artifacts in themselves whose practices reveal the unspoken assumptions of their founders or custodians. Nowhere are such ideological origins more obvious than at London's Victoria and Albert Museum. Founded in 1857 in the wake of the Great ...