Hyperallergic: Sensitive To Art And Its Discontents
In doing so, the goal was to show how what we think about “art†isn’t timeless however actually socially constructed, powerfully conditioned by the conventions and normalizing practices of art institutions. Since the Taliban regime took control of Afghanistan in 2021, these working in archives, museums, cultural heritage websites, movie and television, music, visual arts, performing arts, literature and humanities education have faced the threats of persecution. Punishments have been meted out together with extrajudicial killings, arrests, arbitrary detention and public humiliation while arts and cultural institutions, including museums and archives, have been …

