Today the more relevant split is the more recent one between modern and contemporary fields (the latter has no exact date of origin"1968, 1980, 1989?), which is a schism less between the university and the museum than between scholarly curators and flashy exhibition-makers. This split was opened up when the 20th-century art museum was penetrated […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PM on May 29, 2020