Exhibitions In Art Museum:between Art History Narrative And Contemporary Cultural Construction

Exhibition is the key practice of museums to the public, the contents and projects of exhibitions decide the academic level of an art museum and are bound up with the mission of a museum, furthermore, they are an important carrier of museums to reveal their cultural tendency. Cultural interpretation with exhibitions of museums should interpret not only inner principles of artistic creation, but also the full-view of social and cultural significance, as well as related interaction and mutual exclusion between different cultures, or the blending and developments in different historical stages and temporal and spatial ranges. In this era of pluralism, how to construct and transfer significance through exhibitions, how to interpret cultures in exhibitions, especially how to present relationships between home culture and other cultures of the world is one of the most important mission of museums as research and education institutions of every countries and regions. Museums have the responsibilities for preserving and collecting art works and constructing exhibitions with collections continuously. In some important museums abroad, permanent exhibitions with collections are basic contents. However, the major structure and contents of those permanent exhibitions would change under the influence of different cultural thoughts, therefore, art history in the so-called permanent exhibitions is confined to the cultural thoughts of a specific period. On the other hand, museums pay a lot attention to current art phenomena and form concerns about contemporary art through analyzing and choosing artworks of the newest artistic style. These exhibitions formed by contemporary art are kinds of "art history on process" which will present the cultural position of museums very clearly. Through exhibitions of museums, especially by analyzing the cultural intentions, people can really find the cultural identity of museums. Thus, the value and significance of exhibitions in museums are very important.