Jorge Otero-Pailos, Program Director of GSAPP’s Historic Preservation Program, speaks with Marisa Angell Brown, Assistant Director for Programs at the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage at Brown University, in advance of her Fall 2020 lecture at the school.
Brown expresses the need for the preservation field to acknowledge the imbalance of what has been preserved and the importance in making amends for the things being overlooked. The conversation continues to explore the topic of equity and inclusion in public art collections. They discuss alternate strategies to monument and art removal such as re-contextualization, counter-labeling, and commissioning contemporary artists to create work that speaks to problematic historical objects.
Source by Columbia GSAPP
