The National Museum critically asks which stories, histories and futures are deemed worth saving and which are ignored or forgotten. Every few months, a different artist is invited to change the name of the museum and a national writer is invited to use that museum title as the jumping off point for an essay. In its first year, the project consists of storefront signage, street posters, printed broadsheets, accompanying essays and street performances.
Dread Scott is an interdisciplinary artist whose art encourages viewers to re-examine ideals of American society. In 1989, the US Senate outlawed his artwork and President Bush declared it “disgraceful” because of its transgressive use of the American flag. His artwork, The All African People’s Consulate (2024) was an official Collateral Event of the 60th International Venice Biennial. His work has been included in exhibitions at MoMA PS1, the Walker Art Center, Cristin Tierney Gallery and is in the collection of the Whitney Museum, The National Gallery of Art, and The Metropolatin Museum of Art. He is a 2023 Rome Prize Fellow and has also received fellowships from John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, Open Society Foundations and United States Artists.
