Nizan Shaked – Museums and Wealth

#1 min Anežka Kořínková

26. 11. 2022

Nizan Shaked. Museums and Wealth: The Politics of Contemporary Art Collections. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. ISBN 9781350045767
Nizan Shaked. Museums and Wealth: The Politics of Contemporary Art Collections. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. ISBN 9781350045767
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Professor Nizan Shaked's Museums and Wealth is an extraordinary contribution to the struggle for an egalitarian art world. In four comprehensive chapters, she uses case studies to outline why the American non-profit system is not fit to manage art collections and comes with a proposal for diversity reform and redistributive restructuring. The book also explores how select private collections became public and how the rise of the "American Museum" has re-privatized them. We can only hope that the publication will influence the emergence of other studies critically analyzing the politics of art-collecting institutions, this time on our European continent.

 

Text: Anežka Kořínková

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This edition departs from our series of thematic issues, as it is a celebration of the magazine’s twentieth birthday. As is usually the case with birthday celebrations (particularly such important ones), memories of the past intersect with the future. This is why this issue is dedicated to our activities and a summary of them, along with talents we believe in. In place of allotting the second part of the magazine to theory and current news, as in other issues, we decided to create a special edition on a topic that we have been discussing for years – now, the time has finally come to open it, grasp it fully, and thus change the art market in the Czech Republic. The topic at hand is collecting.

Insights – Yes to Photography. Institutions and (Collecting) Photography

#12 min Anežka Kořínková

Insights – Yes to Photography. Institutions and (Collecting) Photography

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The first issue of the Fotograf magazine included a survey that asked leading Czech theorists and curators about how established the medium of photography is on the contemporary art scene and what they believe could threaten it. Twenty years later, the editorial staff decided to return to the survey format once again, this time with the aim of mapping how photography has fared in both public and private collection institutions both in the Czech Republic and internationally in the past few decades, and what we can expect in the future.