Philosophers' Café: Shiny shoes, or who's looking? March 19, 2007

Shiny shoes, or who’s looking?: Major Western art galleries consider gallery goers in a number of different and changing ways, revealing significant changes to the role of the gallery in citizens’ public life.

Admission: $5 at the door

Join Dr. Margot Leigh Butler to consider, through artists’ and theorists’ work, some of the contested hotspots and revealing relations between Modernity, Postmodernity and Globality. Dr. Butler is an interdisciplinary educator who has taught locally and abroad in universities and art galleries, as well as on alternative education projects. She holds a PhD from Goldsmiths College, London, and is an artist, cultural theorist and activist. She is currently the Academic Director of Humanities 101 at the University of British Columbia.

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