(Art) Ideology and its Fantasy Scenario

Abstract

Museums are among those structures that institutionalized the processes of art and culture in a way that allows us to think about art as an institution. It is a public sphere of need, production and consumption in art that is regulated and institutionalized by museums. Museums are institutions that in the modern world have codified and structured art. We must recognize the redistributed relations of power and the new inner agents and forces in the very institution of Art. The audience in art is currently, today, turned from res nulius, from something which belonged to no one, into res publica, a public affair, which must be accounted for in every serious analysis of modern art. Not only because of the new tourist logic of the museums, but because of new art production in the changing (local) map of Europe, Asia, Africa and so on; museums, and the institution of Art, have to reflect the establishment of new relations of power between the urban periphery, the center and the institutions.