Tufts U Trains Art Museum Students to Target ‘Whiteness’ and ‘Colonialism’
“Anti-Racist Curatorial Practice”
Nothing says art appreciation like imposing a rigid political ideology on museum curation.
Campus Reform reports:
Tufts University trains museum students to target ‘whiteness’ and ‘colonialism’
Tufts University is offering a graduate-level certificate aimed at reshaping how students view art museums by teaching them to dismantle what the university describes as the institutions’ ties to “whiteness” and “colonialism.”
The program, called “Anti-Racist Curatorial Practice,” is housed within the School of Arts and Sciences and requires students to complete five courses to receive certification.
Tufts University is a private university in Medford, Massachusetts.
Among the required courses is “Art, Whiteness, and Empire: The Art Museum as an Imperialist Repository,” which claims museums have historically acted as tools of white supremacy and imperialist ideology.
According to Tufts’ official program page, the certificate “is designed to help art museum professionals develop an anti-discriminatory work ethic, which will sustain and support communities of people who are consistently harmed by systems of oppression both inside and outside the art museum.”
The program emphasizes that students will learn to identify how “western art museums developed as cultural repositories of colonialism” and how traditional curatorial practices are “rooted in racist principles.”
The course instructs students to conduct “anti-racist object analyses” and to reinterpret museum collections through “a non-white lens.” Students are also trained to “navigate normative institutional structures and procedures that are rooted in imperialist histories.”
The coursework aligns with a broader trend of universities offering explicitly ideological courses under the guise of academic study. For example, Southwestern University in Texas recently offered a course titled “Anthropology of Whiteness,” and the University at Buffalo in New York taught a course called “Black Lives Matter: Building Racial Justice and Solidarity.”
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So they’ll declare the items to be colonialist, sell off the collection to rich people, and pocket 10% of the proceeds becoming rich themselves.
Someone should mention this to the Department of Education, so they can check to make sure that not one penny of federal funding goes to this garbage.
Are they targeting hispanics many of whom are both white and colonialists?
“The course instructs students to conduct “anti-racist object analyses” and to reinterpret museum collections through “a non-white lens.”” If these students ever go to Japan, they will witness a non-white culture enamored with Western art including a reconstruction of Claude Monet’s garden. The students may also want to consider how artists discovered the principles of perspective, light, and color. Artists are creatures of their culture so a better question would be how does an artist’s creation reflect his or her culture?
Losers can’t be choosers.
Complaining that art museums are overly white is like complaining that sushi restaurants are overly Asian, or that Internet technology or air-traffic-control coordination is overly English-language.
The graduate-level certificate course ““is designed to help art museum professionals develop an anti-discriminatory work ethic, which will sustain and support communities of people who are consistently harmed by systems of oppression both inside and outside the art museum.”
How the hell does viewing art as art and in historical context do a damn thing to anyone “inside and outside the art museum.” More moron-posturing performative BS.
Leftists or liberals believe that all art should be ‘equal’.
Comic book same as novel.
You aren’t ‘elitist’ are you?
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