Portia
Munson's exuberant installation, Pink Project, contained
a roomful of plastic items, all made in shocking pink for the "girl" market—feminist
color theory.
Fred
Wilson exposes the ideological agenda and exclusionary practices of
cultural institutions in Mining the Museum, his rearrangement
of artifacts in the Maryland Historical Society. Juxtaposing iron
"Slave Shackles" found in the archives of the Historical
Society with "Silver Vessels in Baltimore Repousse Style,"
he reinvigorates both the role of the museum and the discourse of
history.
Fred Wilson, Mining the Museum, detail—Slave
Shackles & Silver Vessels in Baltimore Repousse Style,
Maryland Historical Society.
