Guggenheim’s global travel and the appropriation of a national avant‐garde for cultural planning in Vilnius

Bibliographic Data

ID12340892
AuthorsSkaidra Trilupaityte (Vilnius Academy of Arts, corresponding author)
Year2009
Volume15
Issue1
Pages123-138
Publication date2009-02-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of Cultural Policy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1028-6632 • E-ISSN: 1477-2833
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10286630802322378
OpenAlexW1973795249
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited20

Analysis of the Guggenheim museum’s rhetoric in Vilnius – a case study of a ‘failed’ city planning – provides important material for a broader discussion about neo‐liberal culture, especially with regard to cities of so‐called New Europe. A rhetorical connection between the global museum and a rediscovered Fluxus avant‐garde in the Lithuanian capital became a key component of a new type of culture‐led regeneration campaign. In 2007 Lithuanian Fluxus sentiment became inextricably connected with international partners – the Guggenheim and the Hermitage museums – through the establishing of the Jonas Mekas Visual Art Center. This institutional predecessor of the Hermitage‐Guggenheim museum illuminates a specific way the global museum taps into the local economy and symbolic production. While the specifics of the Lithuanian Guggenheim controversy have their own dynamics, the larger discourses that localize neo‐liberal cultural policy throughout the world are worth broader attention

Aesthetics · Appropriation · Art · Art history · Avant garde · Cultural policy · Literature · Lithuanian · Political science · Rhetoric · Rhetorical question · Sculpture · Sociology · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Law · Museums and Cultural Heritage · Philosophy

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