{"id":2525,"date":"2011-06-01T17:51:04","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T23:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/?p=2525"},"modified":"2011-06-01T17:51:49","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T23:51:49","slug":"statement-from-museum-director-daniel-keegan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/2011\/06\/statement-from-museum-director-daniel-keegan\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement from Museum Director Daniel Keegan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Milwaukee Art Museum\u2019s mission is to serve the community and present art as a vital source of inspiration and education.<\/strong>\u00a0 Through exhibitions and related programs, we are committed to bring people together to inform, educate and engage in conversation around art.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To that end, we have lectures and panels scheduled<\/strong> in conjunction with the <em>Summer of CHINA<\/em> exhibitions that provide historical context, explore important aspects of 3,000 years of Chinese culture, and deal with contemporary issues.<\/p>\n<p>Included in the summer schedule is a panel discussion on the politics of art, additional speakers this summer include Melissa Chiu, from the Asia Society and author Barbara Pollack.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Museum, as a cultural institution, does not support censorship, including self-censorship, of art exhibitions or artists based on unpopular or controversial subjects<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0 We invite the public to experience the exhibitions and to attend the programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Milwaukee Art Museum\u2019s mission is to serve the community and present art as a vital source of inspiration and education.\u00a0 Through exhibitions and related programs, we are committed to bring people together to inform, educate and engage in conversation around art. To that end, we have lectures and panels scheduled in conjunction with the <a href=\"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/2011\/06\/statement-from-museum-director-daniel-keegan\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Statement from Museum Director Daniel Keegan<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2525"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2527,"href":"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525\/revisions\/2527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}