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Modeling Ethical Thinking: Toward New Interpretive Practices in the Art Museum
Author(s) -
Meszaros Cheryl
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
curator: the museum journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.312
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 2151-6952
pISSN - 0011-3069
DOI - 10.1111/j.2151-6952.2008.tb00302.x
Subject(s) - action (physics) , sociology , key (lock) , aesthetics , epistemology , art , computer science , philosophy , physics , computer security , quantum mechanics
One of the key challenges for the art museum today is how to make the discourses and interpretive repertoires that constitute art both visible and available to the public. Rising to this challenge requires a shift in the way the museum both imagines and carries out its interpretive responsibilities. This essay argues that such a shift is taking shape around the question of how to model ethical thinking in the art museum. Ethical thinking helps people (both museum visitors and staff) to make links between thinking and action: between beliefs (morals) and actions (ethics).