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Training Ground for Democracy

Christoph Buchel
A mini round up of the unsettling case of artist Christoph Büchel and MassMoca. Buchel was commissioned to create one of his trademark large scale installations entitled Training Ground for Democracy for gallery 5 in the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. The relationship broke down and the artist abandoned the work resulting in a court case in which the museum successfully sought permission to exhibit the unfinished work but under pressure decided not to after all. The New York Times on the original court victory for Mass Moca. The Art Newspaper on the climbdown and a lively blog debate on the case. All in America, true but monkey see monkey do



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