<P>Andrea Fraser's work, writes Pierre Bourdieu in his foreword to Museum Highlights, isable to "trigger a social mechanism, a sort of machine infernale whose operation causes the hiddentruth of social reality to reveal itself." It often does this by incorporating and inhabiting thesocial role it sets out to critique -- as in a performance piece in which she leads a tour as amuseum docent and describes the men's room in the same elevated language that she uses to describeseventeenth-century Dutch paintings. Influenced by the interdisciplinarity of postmodernism,Fraser's interventionist art draws on four primary artistic and intellectual frameworks --institutional critique, with its site-specific examination of cultural context; performance;feminism, with its investigation of identity formation; and Bourdieu's reflexive sociology. Fraser'swritings form an integral part of her artistic practice, and this collection of texts writtenbetween 1985 and 2003 -- including the performance script for the docent's tour that gives the bookits title -- both documents and represents her work.The writings in Museum Highlights are arrangedto reflect different aspects of Fraser's artistic practice. They include essays that trace thedevelopment of critical "artistic practice" as cultural resistance; performance scripts that exploreart institutions and the public sphere; and texts that explore the ambivalent relationship of art tothe economic and political interests of its time. The final piece, "Isn't This a Wonderful Place? (ATour of a Tour of the Guggenheim Bilbao)," reflects on the role of museums in an era ofglobalization. Among the book's 30 illustrations are stills from performance pieces, some neverbefore published.</P>