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2020
Date of Submission
5-2020
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
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Bachelor of Arts
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Professor Victoria Sancho Lobis
Reader 2
Professor George Gorse
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2020 Caroline S Eastburn
Abstract
Instagram users post photos in art exhibitions all of the time. Contemporary art curators and museums have a role to play in this new phenomenon. Programming and curating participatory art exhibitions allows for the perfect art selfie which draws in visitors from around the world. But, how do curators and museums affect the significance of these artworks by placing them within the Instagram age? This thesis uses the three exhibitions as case studies: Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors at the Broad Museum in Los Angeles, Take Me (I'm Yours) at the Jewish Museum in New York, and "Hélio Oiticica: To Organize Delirium" at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Through an examination of the curatorial and marketing tactics used in mounting these exhibitions, this thesis determines whether or not the use of Instagram crosses a curatorial boundary.
Recommended Citation
Eastburn, Caroline S., "How Contemporary Curatorial Practice Co-opts Participatory Art" (2020). CMC Senior Theses. 2479.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/2479
