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Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.34,0:00:09.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Kerry James Marshall: On Museums]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.38,0:00:14.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You walk into the museum, and the way the museum is structured
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.14,0:00:17.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,especially the kind of great encyclopedic museum,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.60,0:00:20.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where you could come in and your introduction to the art world
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.93,0:00:24.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is through the primitive and the ancient collections.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.90,0:00:30.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then you start moving up the stairs, and\Nyou go into the
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.56,0:00:34.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,medieval European work.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.55,0:00:39.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then you go all the way through from the\N14th century, the 15th century,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.30,0:00:44.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the 16th century, the 17th century, the\N18th century, the 19th century,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.66,0:00:46.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All of that stuff is magnificent stuff.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.85,0:00:50.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s all good. You know, we all like it.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.25,0:00:51.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you become
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.13,0:00:55.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At some point you become acutely aware of\Nyour absence in the whole kind of
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.53,0:01:02.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,historical timeline that develops this kind\Nof narrative of mastery.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.19,0:01:06.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We take it for granted that this is just the\Nway art history has been structured.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.22,0:01:08.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's like, the people who make stuff
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.14,0:01:12.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that's the people who make the best stuff
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.15,0:01:15.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, they are all Europeans.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.44,0:01:16.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are all Europeans.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.75,0:01:19.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when do other people start to come in\Nto the field?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.10,0:01:23.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, only after they have been dominated\Nand colonized by Europeans.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.32,0:01:24.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then what do they start to do?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.42,0:01:28.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They started to do what the Europeans were\Ndoing.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.34,0:01:32.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If there were as many institutions like the\NMuseum of Modern Art,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.34,0:01:34.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like the Whitney Museum, like the Metropolitan\NMuseum
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.66,0:01:37.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if there was as many institutions that people\Nwere clamoring to get into
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.84,0:01:40.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that were run by Black people and Chinese\Npeople and everybody,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.86,0:01:43.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then this wouldn’t be an issue at all.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.27,0:01:47.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is only an issue because there’s only\Nthis one set of institutions
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.23,0:01:51.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that everybody recognizes as being the best,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.56,0:01:53.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you know that you’re not controlling\Nthem,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.67,0:01:57.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so you got to keep asking the people who are\Ncontrolling them to let you in.