Art History Lecture (1930-89) June 6, 2019 Elliott Colla 1. white authority In which a white curator lectures about 20th c. art history. 2. white hall The audience is exclusively white. It looks nothing like the city around us. 3. white tone The lecture goes on for ninety minutes. The professor’s tone never rises, never falls. 4. white frame Each image is surrounded and contained by a white frame. At all moments, the whiteness of the boundary exceeds the area of color. 5. white male subjects During the time I was awake, the professor never showed an image produced by a woman or person of color. All men, all white. 6. white talk Each image is framed again in a discourse of white words that situate each work in a grand narrative. 7. white history Art is made in Europe, by white men. Just like History is.