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 What is Curatorial Activism? Curatorial Activism shows what you can offer in the art and speaks about it. But also means to make your voice be heard and show it off in an exhibition to show what you are telling people, also, according to the sources, Curatorial activism shows individuals who have committed themselves to counter-hegemonic initiates that give voices to historically silent people.  But also, Curatorial Activism is for people who are women, people of colour, non-European, or queer artists. They are allowed to do any type of art in their own words or give a message in an exhibition. But also show how they can bring people together and share their explanation of why they are trying to share this message.  But also this includes for more people to spread their own message and their artwork which can happen in websites and posts. But being organized on how the artworks are being used and giving the reasons to be posted of the messages.

 
 “What’s even more disturbing is that these mainstream master narratives of art, in which large constituencies of people are ghettoised and excluded from the big-white-boy narrative, are presented as natural, as common sense, and these discriminatory practices are rarely challenged”

Listening to this does show how things can be challenged and finding something that shows it can bring a situation. This can happen in different places in the art. But also look how can people can react looking at something that they can be disappointed with and also show reactions which mostly can be affected.

“The fundamental problem with this biased representation on the part of MoMA is that since its founding, it has functioned, and continues to function as an international icon, as an institution that other modern art museums have looked to as a paradigm of excellence to be mimicked.”

This Quote does follows up a situation which shows that this follows where it shows that modern art was not introduced until the 1980s and that things couldn’t be established very early in art history. Where also you can see that during that time, this situation also shows that this can bring important details for what modern art can do. The story does mention that Native Americans were mentioned in 1995 and shows that this is affected by history.

“Historically forgotten artists can be reclaimed, excavated for close analysis; revisionist strategies can be employed in which mainstream artists can be read ‘against the grain’; ‘area studies’ can be further explored as well, although such ‘specialised’ studies can also be ghettoising at times; and finally comparative studies, which celebrate the polylogue (versus the monologue), have also been suggested as a possibility.”

Looking at this, it looks like this can be shown in a supportive way. But at the same time, it shows how things can be different, for example, looking at how things can be against and showing that art can also be a challenge for people and how things can be competitive too. This shows that things can be explored and gives a message to show that art can bring competition with the materials and things that are happening right now.

 “An exhibition that could show the universality of racist power structures, as one focusing on Bell most certainly would, seemed like the perfect follow-up.”

This is interesting because the source explains how different types of art were shown in Egypt and African American art. Because It shows how Bell’s art wants to be delivered from history but other types of culture with art. Bell’s work is mainly used for protest art, which Bell decided to do with cultural effects. But also brings judgment to his own art, which affects him with racial messages into his own art. But it does see how things can be concerned by what happens with Bell’s art with messages about his own art. He is only trying to give a message and how he feels, making it a protest in his art.