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Author: Vishakha N. Desai
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Imprint: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231215619
ISBN 10: 0231215614
Pages: 576
Publication Date: 16 June 2026
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
This collection offers a timely and much-needed corrective to entrenched Western orthodoxies in museum practice. With its kaleidoscopic range of perspectives, it will become essential reading for students, scholars, and cultural leaders alike. -- Maxwell L. Anderson, art historian A vital collection that reveals how art and museums around the world are reckoning with some of the most urgent issues of our time—race, gender, class, and colonialism. Vishakha Desai has curated an expansive conversation that is both global and profoundly grounded in lived institutional experience. -- Carol Becker, professor of the arts and dean emerita, Columbia University School of the Arts, and author of <i> George’s Daughter
This collection offers a timely and much-needed corrective to entrenched Western orthodoxies in museum practice. With its kaleidoscopic range of perspectives, it will become essential reading for students, scholars, and cultural leaders alike. -- Maxwell L. Anderson, art historian A vital collection that reveals how art and museums around the world are reckoning with some of the most urgent issues of our time—race, gender, class, and colonialism. Vishakha Desai has curated an expansive conversation that is both global and profoundly grounded in lived institutional experience. -- Carol Becker, professor of the arts and dean emerita, Columbia University School of the Arts, and author of <i> George’s Daughter Rich with insight and with evident commitment, this anthology offers museum professionals and students alike a powerful framework for thinking through the challenges shaping cultural practice in a fractured and challenging world. -- Matthew Teitelbaum, Director Emeritus of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
A bold and far-reaching book confronting the fault lines of our time, from restitution and protest to power and the future of museums, with rare clarity and conviction. Urgent, intelligent, and deeply necessary. -- Bénédicte Savoy, Chaire du Louvre (2026); professor at Technische Universität Berlin and Collège de France Rich with insight and with evident commitment, this anthology offers museum professionals and students alike a powerful framework for thinking through the challenges shaping cultural practice in a fractured and challenging world. -- Matthew Teitelbaum, director emeritus of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston A vital collection that reveals how art and museums around the world are reckoning with some of the most urgent issues of our time—race, gender, class, and colonialism. Vishakha Desai has curated an expansive conversation that is both global and profoundly grounded in lived institutional experience. -- Carol Becker, professor of the arts and dean emerita, Columbia University School of the Arts, and author of <i> George’s Daughter </i> This collection offers a timely and much-needed corrective to entrenched Western orthodoxies in museum practice. With its kaleidoscopic range of perspectives, it will become essential reading for students, scholars, and cultural leaders alike. -- Maxwell L. Anderson, art historian and president of the Souls Deep Foundation
Author Information
Vishakha N. Desai is an internationally recognized scholar, educator, and museum leader. She has been a senior advisor to President Lee C. Bollinger and chair of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University, and she is the past president and CEO of Asia Society. Her books include World as Family: A Journey of Multi-Rooted Belongings (Columbia, 2021).
