Review: Museum, Inc.
Paul Werner's Museum, Inc. recently received praise from Zeke's Gallery. In short form, "Museum Inc. is a wicked cool book."
Paul Werner draws on his nine years at the Guggenheim Museum to reveal that contemporary art museums have not broken radically with the past, as often claimed. Rather, Werner observes, they are the logical outcome of the evolution of cultural institutions rooted in the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, the colonial expansion of the liberal nation-state, and the rhetoric of democracy.