Aboriginal Art and the Museum: indigenising a colonial space
<p>As tens of millions of people across the world have taken to social media and then to the streets in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, art world institutions have <a href="https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/british-museums-black-lives-matter-statements-controversy-1202690203/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">come under scrutiny</a> for their responses. Critics have denounced museums and galleries for silence, for hesitating to respond, and for posturing.</p>
<p>The lack of diversity in the collections, programming and even the workforces of public museums and galleries, large and small, has been a conversation for the better part of 50 years. Despite some agonisingly slow progress, the art collections of most museums remain dominated by white, male artists.</p>
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