Museum Highlights
Fri, May 1, 2015
11–11:30 am
Andrea Fraser (b. 1965), still from Museum Highlights: A Gallery Talk, 1989. Video, color, sound; 29:28 min. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Wilfred P. and Rose J. Cohen Purchase Fund © 1989 Andrea Fraser
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Andrea Fraser’s 1989 video Museum Highlights: A Gallery Talk is a fictional docent tour performed by the artist at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The performance simultaneously parodies and critiques the structures of cultural institutions.
Andrea Fraser (b. 1965; Billings, MT), Museum Highlights: A Gallery Talk, 1989. Video, color, sound; 29:28 min. Purchase with funds from the Wilfred P. and Rose J. Cohen Purchase Fund 2015.53
This screening is free with Museum admission.
