{"id":1873,"date":"2013-07-22T00:43:54","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T04:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uropcbrp.com\/?p=1873"},"modified":"2020-08-28T14:08:06","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T14:08:06","slug":"stereotyping-the-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/2013\/07\/22\/stereotyping-the-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"Stereotyping the Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last weekend, Amber and I visited the DIA because, shockingly, I hadn’t been there in\u00a0years<\/em>. It’s difficult realizing all of the things I have missed out on just because of my peers’ prejudices surrounding Detroit. I guess the positive way to view that is, at least I’m experiencing it now!<\/p>\n

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One thing that I really enjoyed about the DIA was that it acknowledged the fact that it was in Detroit. Not only was the Diego Rivera mural beautiful, but the museum pieces were curated to not just be a tribute to the white european pieces that are so popular in many museums. Though these pieces have importance, they probably would not mean much to many people living in Wayne county, and certainly don’t mean much to me.<\/p>\n

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It reminded me of a TED talk I saw at U of M about stereotyping in cinema. The TED talk covered how negative portrayals of Arabs as terrorists or rich oil sheikhs aren’t necessarily the problem, but the concentration of incidences of this being their only portrayal in movies is what is wrong. The solution to this problem is that any race, religion, orientations, etc be portrayed as both the good guy and the bad guy in equal measure in cinema.<\/p>\n

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So back to how this relates to the DIA.<\/p>\n

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Normally you find an abnormally high amount of white, european, renaissance art and if there is another color of person presented, it is in the form of savagery or slavery. That is not to say that there is anything wrong with the art that was made in a different time with values quite different than our own, but that art should represent the many roles people in this day and age occupy. I’m also not saying that there is an overwhelming\u00a0amount<\/em>\u00a0of art that has, for example, a black woman as the elegant centerpiece, but that museums such as the DIA should try to collect art that shows the diversity of the world in which we live.\"image-7\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last weekend, Amber and I visited the DIA because, shockingly, I hadn’t been there in\u00a0years. It’s difficult realizing all of the things I have missed out on just because of my peers’ prejudices surrounding Detroit. I guess the positive way to view that is, at least I’m experiencing it now! One thing that I really […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1669,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[33,36,37,77,117],"class_list":["post-1873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cbrp-2013","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-institute-of-arts","tag-dia","tag-museum","tag-wayne"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1669"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16531,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873\/revisions\/16531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}