Recommended Reading:

  • Thompson, D. (2010). The $12 million stuffed shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Becker, H. (2012). Art worlds. Berkeley, Calif: University of California Press.
  • McClellan, A. (2008) The Art Museum from Boullee to Bilbao. Berkeley, Calif: University of California Press.
  • Rujivacharakul, V. (2010) Collecting China: The World, China and a Short History of Collecting. Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press.
  • Capon, E. (1977) Art and Archaeology in China. London: Westerham Press.
  • Deleuze, G, and Guattari, F. (1987) A Thousand plateaus: Capitalism and schizophrenia. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
  • Fraser, A. (2005) From the Critique of Institutions to an Institution of Critique. Artforum. New York: Sep 2005. Vol. 44, Iss. 1; pp. 278-283.
  • Bishop, C. (2004). Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics. October, No.110, Fall 2004, pp.51-79.
  • Varutti, M. (2014) Museums in China: The Politics of Representation After Mao. Cambridge: Boydell and Brewer Limited.
  • “Key Concepts of Museology.” ICOM-International Council of Museums. http://icom.museum/fileadmin/user_upload/pdf/Key_Concepts_of_Museology.
  • Huang, R. (2007) The Stars’ Times 1977-1984. Beijing: Guanyi Contemporary Art Archive.
  • Gladston, P. (2013) Avant-garde’ Art Groups in China, 1979-1989: The Stars – the Northern Art Group – the Pond Association – Xiamen Dada: A Critical Polylogue. Bristol: Intellect.
  • Huang, C-C, Deng, G, Wang, Z, & Edwards, R L. (2014). China’s Nonprofit Sector: Progress and Challenges. Transaction Publisher. New Jersey: Routledge.
  •  Lu, T. (2014). Museums in China – Power, Politics and Identities. New York: Routledge
  • Powell W and DiMaggio, P. (1991). The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
  • Scott, W. R. (2013). Institutions and organizations: Ideas, interests, and identities, Sage Publications.
  • Song, X. (2008). ‘The Development of Private Museums in China’, Museum International’, vol.60, no.1-2, UNESCO, pp.40-48
  • Varutti, M. (2014) Museums in China: The Politics of Representation After Mao. Cambridge: Boydell and Brewer Limited.
  • www.lawinfochina.com
  • Mathur, S. (2005). “Museums and Globalization.” Anthropological Quarterly, vol. 78, no. 3, pp. 697–708. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/anq.2005.0037.
  • Ostling, S. (2007).  “The Global Museum and the Orbit of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York.” International Journal of the Humanities, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/29466759_The_Global_Museum_and_the_Orbit_of_the_Solomon_R_Guggenheim_Museum_New_York.
  • Yap, June, et al. Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative (De)Coupling as Discourse on the Global South. 22 Sept. 2016.
  • Siegal, N. (2018). Museums Shake Things Up by Mixing Old and New. [online] Nytimes.com. Available at: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/20/arts/museums-transhistorical-art.html [Accessed 2 Jun. 2018].
  • Micallef, J. (2018). The Louvre Abu Dhabi: Are Museums Going Global?. [online] Forbes.com. Available at: https://www.forbes.com/sites/joemicallef/2017/12/21/the-louvre-abu-dhabi-are-museums-going-global/#58bd07da2585 [Accessed 2 Jun. 2018].
  • Smith, R. (2018). The Mythic and Heroic, Just Inches Tall. [online] Nytimes.com. Available at: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/31/arts/design/renaissance-and-baroque-bronzes-at-the-frick-collection.html [Accessed 2 Jun. 2018].
  • VivePort (2018). The Kremer Collection VR Museum. [online] Viveport.com. Available at: https://www.viveport.com/apps/d01d8992-a3af-4800-a1ee-5be383435f69 [Accessed 2 Jun. 2018].
  • Spiliopoulou, A., Mahony,S., Routsis, V and Kamposiori, C. (2014). “Cultural institutions in the digital age: British Museum’s use of Facebook Insights”. Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies, Vol 11, Issue 1, pp. 286 – 303.
  • Varutti, M. (2014) Museums in China: The Politics of Representation After Mao. Cambridge: Boydell and Brewer Limited.
  • Xiang, L. (2015). Copyleft: Appropriation Art in China. Shanghai: Power Station of Art.
  • Miller, M. (2018). The Big Fake: Behind the Scenes of Knoedler Gallery’s Downfall -. [online] ARTnews. Available at: http://www.artnews.com/2016/04/25/the-big-fake-behind-the-scenes-of-knoedler-gallerys-downfall/ [Accessed 2 Jun. 2018].
  • Bram Shoemaker, B. (2018). ‘Red Collectors’ Deal in Relics From China’s Past. [online] Sixth Tone. Available at: http://www.sixthtone.com/news/1000114/red-collectors-deal-in-relics-from-chinas-past [Accessed 2 Jun. 2018].
  • Bennett, T. (1995). The Birth of the Museum. 1st ed. Routledge.
  • Williams, P. (2007). Memorial Museums: The Global Rush to Commemorate Atrocities. Berg Publishers.
  • Pamuk, O. and Freely, M. (2011). The museum of innocence. London: Faber and Faber.