Reading list, 20 July 2019

Just the most amazing looking show, by an artist I've never heard of: Holland Cotter reviews Mrinalini Mukherjee's survey at the Met Breuer

Very well circulated, ticketed for future reference: Ahdaf Soueif's On Resigning from the British Museum’s Board of Trustees

The Great Wave: what Hokusai’s masterpiece tells us about museums, copyright and online collections today by Douglas McCarthy

David Shariatmadari, 'Shout queer!' The [British] museums bringing LGBT artefacts out of the closet, for The Guardian

A suit against the American immersive arts and entertainment company Meow Wolf alleges discrimination and unfair pay practices, including paying below the minimum wage (the company has 450 employees and is one of the most hotly watched in the immersive experience area)

Bookmarking a mental parallel to 'museums are not neutral' - Alexis C Madrigal on the collapse of the "we're just a platform" defence

In the NYT: What and Whom Are Jewish Museums For? (and who should direct them?)

Colleen Dilenschneider's latest: People Trust Museums… Even If They Don’t Visit Them

Reading list, 4 May 2019

Still chewing this over with a lot of discomfort: Is this ‘Common’ Language? A College’s Misguided Guide by Rand Richards Cooper on Commonweal and a copy of the Amherst common language guide referred to in the opinion piece, since redacted by the university.

Recent writing by Nathan “Mudyi” Sentance: Queering [the museum] needs to be anti-colonial

Three pieces of catch-up reading from the Pantograph Punch:

• Hanahiva Rose on Matthew McIntyre's The New Net, shown at The Dowse as part of SOLO 2018
• Jane Groufsky on Areez Katki's embroidered works at Malcolm Smith Gallery
• Elle Loui August on Peter Hawkesby's return to ceramics 

Speaking of which, the Pantograph Punch is looking for a new director: a 0.5 role working alongside the Editor in Chief to run the platform

I'm sure I've linked to this before, but an extract & link to the full statement: Germany reveals Framework Principles for Dealing with Collections from Colonial Contexts

Recently from Nina Simon: evaluating and ranking potential risks of failure, to get organised & reduce stress

NPR's guide to saying "foreign" names on air

Thousands of articles of everyday women’s clothing are being preserved in lockers in a college basement. But where, exactly, does their value lie?