(Art) ideology and its fantasy scenario (does contemporary art need museums any more?)

Museums are among those structures that institutionalized the processes of art and culture in a way that allows us to think about art as an institutio n. It is a public sphere of need, production and consumption in art that is regulated and institutionalized by museums. Museums are institutions that in the modern world have codified and structured art. We must recognize the redistributed relations of power and the new inner agents and forces in th e very institution of Art. The audience in art is currently, today, turned from res nulus, from something which belonged to no one, into res publica, a public affair, which must be accounted for in every serious analysis of m odern art. Not only because of the new tourist logic of the museums, but be cause of new art production in the changing(local) map of Europe, Asia, Afr ica and so on; museums, and the institution of Art, have to reflect the est ablishment of new relations of power between the urban periphery, the cente r and the institutions.