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The readings from the class are presented here. Each will be read and discussed in class.

Malraux, André. Museum Without Walls. Translated from French by Stuart Gilbert and Francis Price. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1967.

McShine, Kynaston. The Museum as Muse: Artists Reflect. New York, NY: Museum of Modern Art, 1999. ISBN: 0870700928.

Greenberg, Reesa, Bruce W. Ferguson, and Sandy Nairne, eds. Thinking About Exhibitions. New York, NY: Routledge, 1996. ISBN: 0415115892.

Crimp, Douglas. On the Museum's Ruins. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1993. ISBN: 0262032090.

Putnam, James. Art and Artifact: The Museum as Medium. New York, NY: Thames & Hudson, 2001. ISBN: 0500237905.

Augé, Marc. Non-places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity. Translated by John Howe. New York, NY: Verso, 1995. ISBN: 1859849563.

Bronson, A. A., and P. Gale, eds. Museums by Artists. Toronto, CA: Art Metropole, 1983. ISBN: 0920956130.

Bennett, Tony. The Birth of the Museum: History, Theory, Politics. New York, NY: Routledge, 1995. ISBN: 0415053870.