Thomas Struth
Janet Cardiff
Fred Wilson
Louise Lawler
"The notion that art should provide a window on the world has been well established at least since the mid-fifteenth century, when Leon Battista Alberti laid out the principles for representing space through the system of one-point perspective. Conceiving the picture plane as a stage on which objects were arranged in diminishing scale, the artist drew the eye into the painting and hence away from any of the distracting apparatus that might have dispelled the illusion."
Heartney begins this discussion with art's ability to create descriptive space. But she fails to mention that this point in history also marks the rise of the autonomous work, no longer does painting simply serve architecture, incidentally this also elevates the individual.
How do institutions maintain the status quo?
How do they accommodate change?
What will the contents of the MOMA look like when hispanics dominate U.S. population in 2050? A similar case may be said for Algerians in Paris.
As cultural demographics shift, what challenges does the institution face?
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