In the end, museums were primarily monuments to their own values and tastes, showcases for what political power and private wealth could buy. […] They need to acknowledge the often conflicted relationship between aesthetics and ethics. They need to address what their collections leave out. They need to reconsider their own role as history-tellers and history-inventors. In short, they need to redefine what “encyclopedic” and “museum” and “art” can mean.
Like all of us, museums are stitched tight into the fabric of a messy, venal, Darwinian world. If they’re going to present themselves as enlightened alternatives to that messy world they better get busy. […] Enlightenment is a hard-won fight, and alternative always starts as an inside job.
| America’s Big Museums on the Hot Seat - The New York Times https://t.cn/A6z8VPsW
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