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Museum Confidential

Crip Curation and Disability Art

Published February 28, 2025 at 12:31 PM CST

Museum Confidential: Season 9, Episode 8.

Why are museums designed and built in the way that they are? Why do we hang a work of art at this or that height? If a disabled artist makes art, is it necessarily Disability Art? And who gets to decide? On this episode of MC, we explore these and other questions with self-described Crip Curator -- and acclaimed author -- Amanda Cachia.

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