Reconstructing Exhibitions in Art Institutions spans exhibition histories as anti-apartheid activism within South African community arts; Civil Rights movements and Black communities in Baltimore; reframing feminisms in USA; revisiting Cold War Modernisms in Eastern Europe among other themes.

Introduction: Reconstructing Exhibitions: Global Perspectives on Art Institutions, Communities and Activism; Part 1. Institutions; 1. When Competition Becomes Form: Exhibition Reconstructions and the Limits of Institutional Self-Critique; 2. Other Primary Structures and the Theatricality of Re-Staging Exhibitions; Part 2. Communities; 3 The "Remembering Exhibitions" of South African Community Arts: Re-appraising the Art of Resistance (Re-opening the archives of anti-apartheid art); 4. The Reflexive Riff: Revisiting Contemporary Negro Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art; 5. The Making of Tucumán Arde (1968), 1997-2012; Part 3. Restaging Modernisms; 6. 15 Polish Painters (MoMA, 1961) Fifty-Five Years Later' 7. Provenance Research: A New Perspective on Exhibitions from the Past; 8. Copy as Container, Original as Content: "The Making of Modern Art" at the Van Abbemuseum; Part 4. Counter-narratives; 9. Reading Between the Lines: Locating the politics of Lucy Lippard's Six Years; 10. Reconstructing Exhibitions in "Times of Interregnum"