The predicament of diversity

Multiculturalism in practice at the art museum

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6255488
AutoresI Ang (0000-0002-4877-0026, Western Sydney University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2005
Volumen5
Número3
Páginas305-320
Fecha de publicación2005-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEthnicities (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1468-7968 • E-ISSN: 1741-2706
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1468796805054957
OpenAlexW1965943381
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas16
Referencias citadas9

Mainstream cultural institutions such as museums are increasingly called upon to increase their accessibility to culturally diverse communities and audiences, including migrant groups who do not generally visit museums. This essay discusses the challenges experienced by the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the largest art museum in Sydney, Australia, in mounting an exhibition of Buddhist art in 2001, and in its efforts to use the exhibition as a vehicle for drawing new audiences in, especially Asian Buddhist groups. The case study raises important questions about possibilities and limits of engaging cultural diversity in the art museum. The biases inherent in the operations of the art museum, especially its non-negotiable reliance on a Western concept of ‘art’, are at the heart of the predicament of diversity for art museum practice

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Buddhism · Contemporary art · Cultural diversity · Diversity (politics · Exhibition · Indian art · Mainstream · Media studies · Performance art · Political science · Sociology · Visual arts · Anthropology · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · History · Law · Museums and Cultural Heritage · Religious Tourism and Spaces