Week 11- Art in Public Spaces THE MUSEUM WHAT HISTORIES DO WE REFER TO? WHO SPEAKS AND WHO IS SILENT? (INTRODUCING THE NOTION OF SELECTED TRADITIONS AS DESCRIBED BY RAYMOND WILLIAMS) Slide Presentation: projects of Andrea Fraser, Michael Asher, and Fred Wilson Required Reading: Lisa Corrin, "Mining the Museum: An installation by Fred Wilson" (The New Press/ The Contemporary) Douglas Crimp, On the Museum's Ruins, (London, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1993) Suggested Reading: Hal Foster "The Primitive" Unconscious of Modern Art or White Skin Black Masks" in Recodings (Seattle: Bay Press, 1985) 181-208, 228-233 Marianne Torgovnik "But is it Art?", chapter 3 of Gone Primitive (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990), James Clifford, "On Ethnographic Surrealism", chapter 2, The Predicament of Culture group project We collectively take down the piece.