Queer Criticalities, Instagram, and the Ethics of Museum Display

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Abstract

This essay explores the ways in which queer critical theory might be productively applied to digital art history and curatorial practice. Reflecting on a recent critically-acclaimed exhibition at the Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA), the author creates a theoretical framework of digital and aesthetic futurity that accords well with a curatorial exercise in visualizing queer affective networks on social media.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.11588/dah.2019.4.67697

Author

Horace Ballard

Ph.D. is the Curator of American Art at the Williams College Museum of Art. Ballard also is a faculty affiliate of the joint Graduate Program in the History of Art at the Clark Art Institute and Williams College.