TY - BOOK AU - Snauwaert,Dirk TI - The absent museum: 20.04-13.08.2017 PY - 2017///] CY - Brussels PB - WEILS, Mercatorfonds KW - Art, Modern KW - 21st century KW - Exhibitions KW - Art and society N2 - 'The Absent Museum' is a large thematic exhibition that explores the absence of museums in public debates today. What relation can exist between historical awareness and aesthetic commitment? How can artists maintain the tension between globalisation's paradoxes and history's turbulences, and their individual sensibilities and voices? Works and new productions by around 49 artists - both contemporary and those active in the recent past - map what is at stake for museums and the societies that inspire them ER -