Art and museums

The Contradictions Of Museums

In a unique collaboration with Bihar Museum, the Outlook Group brings a series of panel discussions on museums, their roles and their evolution as part of the Bihar Musuem Biennale’s second edition on 24th June at Bikaner House, New Delhi.

In a unique collaboration with Bihar Museum, the Outlook Group brings a series of panel discussions on museums, their roles and their evolution as part of the Bihar Musuem Biennale’s second edition in Delhi.
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Museums have been accused of being both too heavy with historical dust and too historically spotless, excessively historicizing artworks while cutting them off from the historical life in which artworks are born. Thus the museum seems contradictory because it lectures about the historical nature of its objects while denying the same objects the living historical connection about which it purports to educate.

In a unique collaboration with Bihar Museum, the Outlook Group brings a series of panel discussions on museums, their roles and their evolution as part of the Bihar Musuem Biennale’s second edition - as the second of such discussions take place on 24th June at Bikaner House, New Delhi.
 

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