This call to action by Reilly, an arts writer and executive director at New York's National Academy of Design, is aimed at art-world insiders. The title celebrates museum exhibitions by "curatorial activists" who target "sexism, racism, homo-/lesbo-phobia and Western-centrism" in museum practice. The author analyzes activist exhibitions from the 1970s to present, evaluating their ideas, critical reception, and impact, and hailing them as necessary correctives to what she describes as the mainstream art world's "rigged system, dominated by straight white men." Charting a shifting role for curators, this title reveals arts professionals as becoming brokers of a sort, mediating the interests of artists, arts institutions, social activists, and museumgoers. At best, the institutional critiques articulated here will move art museums away from longstanding bias, toward exhibiting artists previously excluded. Readers, however, may wonder where the audience itself figures here—too often the text seems a conversation conducted over the heads of the public, with little concern to address skeptical or perplexed museumgoers about the value of ethical curation. VERDICT At its most convincing, when citing statistics proving how seldom museums display art by overlooked and marginalized groups, this book will surely energize those already in agreement, but may not speak to readers less engaged.—Michael Dashkin, New York