Maxwell L. Anderson is president of the Souls Grown Deep Community Partnership & Foundation and a past president of the Association of Art Museum Directors.
It’s not just federally funded museums that have reason to be wary. Self-censorship is also a danger, and all institutions should stand up for their stated principles
A book by Daniel H. Weiss, outgoing president and CEO of the Met, offers a public-spirited view of how a changing world can benefit from the constancy of large institutions
The Association of Art Museum Directors’ new guidelines for deaccessioning are welcome, but they still leave its members open to monetary temptation
US museums have long relied on wealthy individuals, but the sources of some of that wealth makes this increasingly untenable
The new administration is better disposed to the arts, but that doesn’t mean there’ll be more federal funding
Art museums that consider themselves places of reflection should be thinking harder about what they are for and what needs to change
