Art in context
Museum education is facing competition: art communicators are forging new pathways to art.
Is drawing pictures at the museum a good introduction to art for young and old? Although that is still done, the honourable if somewhat fusty field of museum education has also come up with some new ideas. Art communicators, for example, are not only teachers, but artists too. Their precursors are collectives like Kunstcoop and eck_ik. Instead of confirming that museums are venues for higher truths, they question the history and interpretation of these institutions by artistic-deconstructive means.
