Museums and Social Justice: Towards Reckoning and Change

The influential art critic, curator, and museum director Maura Reilly examines the future of museums when acquisitions policies, permanent collections, and exhibitions become increasingly important battlegrounds for social justice.

Museums face a reckoning. Thrust to the forefront of difficult conversations around toxic philanthropy, increased corporatization, decolonization, repatriation, and legacies of theft and looting, many of our cultural institutions are undergoing a period of radical...