Museum of Art and Archaeology @mizzou with the family on Saturday. Egypt to contemporary periods. Really wonderful museum. Next door is the Museum of Anthropology. Were going to visit that next week. It's also a really wonderful museum with amazing curators (and Lame Deer's van!) that are doing critical work. However, as is problematically common in the world, Indigenous art is in the anthropology museum and Egyptian/Greek/Roman/Near Eastern/European/modern is in the Art museum. The implication, of course, is two fold. 1) The "classics" are the foundation for "modern" art and "modern" society. 2) Indigenous artistry and society are separate (i.e. have had no impact on the contemporary world). Separating, for instance, unknown ancient Southwestern Cibolan artists from unknown ancient Greek artists is a form of Indigenous erasure. I know some of the curators and I know they're working hard to improve the presentation and to make the museum space more equitable and less skewed against Indigenous groups. #decolonize #decolonizethemuseum #thepastispresent #constructingthefuturehistory https://www.instagram.com/p/B875P3OnHR2/?igshid=nfnwzqbwabxj
