Institutional critique traces museum trustees into global systems of capital

Evidence

Indeed, in Haacke it is not merely with museum space that we come to rest, but rather the museum itself, as an institution, opens up into its network of trustees, their affiliations with multinational corporations, and finally the global system of late capitalism proper, such that what used to be the limited and Kantian project of a restricted conceptual art expands into the very ambition of cognitive mapping itself (with all its specific representational contradictions). — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 376

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• XREF: Concrete mechanism showing how art’s ‘style’ or form is the economy’s way of appearing — the reader’s key idea.