The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum has been quietly altering its own content since Trump returned to office — not because the administration demanded it, but because the museum anticipated the demand (Politico). That particular reflex — institutions reshaping themselves before anyone even asks — shows up across today’s stories. Josh Kline’s viral essay is a despairing elegy for a New York art world that real estate priced into irrelevance (ARTnews). The Chronicle of Higher Education traces how humanists helped wreck the humanities (Chronicle of Higher Education). At the New Yorker, a fact-checker writes about being illegally fired after leading the magazine’s union. Condé Nast, it seems, might violate labor law before it’ll tolerate organized workers (The Nation).
On a brighter note, Minneapolis’s major arts institutions are mostly posting surpluses after some brutal years (Star Tribune). And Duchamp — whose century-old question about what counts as art still hasn’t been settled — gets a fresh reassessment (The New York Times). See you tomorrow.
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