"We're in that liminal time between past and future - it's the first full week of the new year, but we're still shaking off that 2025 holiday languor. Wake up: 2026 is a big year. It marks the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States at a time when the whole democratic project is at risk. Don't miss Ken Weine's opinion piece on the crucial role museums must play in not only commemorating our history, but interpreting and communicating it."
""Survival cuts in several ways: When we survive, so too do our ghosts and our wounds," Seph Rodney writes in his review. "More than any other feeling, what occurs to me seeing these vessels is a sense of our precarity precisely because what I already know about the legacy of colonialism is daunting enough and I am not aware of all the things it makes us - the children of independence fervor and colonial powers - carry.""
2026 marks the 250th anniversary of the United States amid threats to democratic institutions. Museums must resist mere commemoration and actively interpret and communicate history to maintain public trust during post-truth partisanship. Museums rank among the nation's most trusted institutions and carry responsibility for contextualizing the past. Hew Locke's survey at the Yale Center for British Art confronts nation-building and the legacies of empire, portraying a tarnishing and rusting inheritance. The exhibition evokes precarity and the burdens of colonialism on descendants of independence and colonial powers. The newsletter also notes a high-profile art sale and a 1970s photographic project involving Arthur Rimbaud masks in New York City.
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