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Museums and Entrepreneurship: The Effects of Capitalising on Culture in the 21st Century addresses the largely under-examined impact that different entrepreneurial endeavours have on museum practices today.
List of contents
1. Introducing the Entrepreneurial Turn; 2. Sponsoring National Art: Funding Construction and Securing Dedications; 3. MAXXI Rome: When a Museum Displays Politics; 4. Consequences of Sponsorship: European Museums and Corporations-The Case of Volkswagen; 5. Away with the Basics? Exhibition Design, Experience Economy and Polyphony; 6. René Magritte's Diasporic Doubles: Staging the Filipino Security Guards at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; 7. Elite Philanthropy and China's Museums: Individual Passions and Innovative Models; 8. The Value of Community: Case Studies of Real and Symbolic Economy in South American Museums; 9. Postscript: Where Do We Go from Here?
About the author
Eve Kalyva is Lecturer of Art History at the University of Kent and a museum educator. Her interdisciplinary research spans conceptual and contemporary art, image and text relations, social semiotics, activism, exhibition design, decolonial practices and the Global South, with a regional focus on South America. At Kent, she leads the research project
Decolonial Practices in Art and Culture.
Iro Katsaridou is currently Director of the MOMus-Thessaloniki Museum of Photography. She was previously a curator at the Museum of Byzantine Culture in Thessaloniki. Iro has taught art history and museum studies in several universities in Greece, participated in international conferences and published contributions in journals, collective volumes and exhibition catalogues. Her research interests focus on photography (historical and contemporary), art and politics and socially engaged art history as implemented in museum practices.
Pamela Bianchi is Professor of Art History at École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris-Belleville (ENSAPB) and at École Supérieure d¿Art et Design in Toulon (ESADtpm). She specialises in the relationship between art, architecture and exhibition design. Since 2013, she has been an affiliated researcher at the Paris 8 University (AI-AC), France.
Summary
Museums and Entrepreneurship: The Effects of Capitalising on Culture in the 21st Century addresses the largely under-examined impact that different entrepreneurial endeavours have on museum practices today.
