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Nizan Shaked

Dr. Nizan Shaked is professor of contemporary art history, museum and curatorial studies, at California State University Long Beach. Her book The Synthetic Proposition: Conceptualism and the Political Referent in Contemporary Art, was published by Manchester University Press in 2017. She is currently working on Museums, the Public, and the Value of Art: The Political Economy of Art Collections, forthcoming with Bloomsbury Academic Publications."

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After a Director Is Fired and a Work of Art Paused, We Must Demand Social Justice

by Nizan Shaked October 26, 2018October 27, 2018

Controversy swirling around the firing of Kimberli Meyer and the pausing of a major work of art is currently distracting us from the conversation we need to have about art and social justice.

Posted inOpinion

Why I Am Resigning from X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly and the Problem with 356 Mission’s Politics

by Nizan Shaked April 27, 2018

The publication’s board is scheduling an event at an establishment boycotted by a long list of grass-roots organizations in Boyle Heights.

Posted inOpinion

How to Draw a (Picket) Line: Activists Protest Event at Boyle Heights Gallery

by Nizan Shaked February 14, 2017February 22, 2017

A meeting of the Artists’ Political Action Network failed to take into account its location in a neighborhood that’s been mired in gentrification controversy for quite some time.

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