28 March 2023

The Museum Doctors: Interview with Jose Antonio Gordillo Martorell of Cultural Inquiry

What if museums didn't just listen to children and communities, but did what they were told?

24 March 2023

Links of the Week: March 24, 2023: What It All Means

Turns out that searching for the meaning of all things requires a looser org structure than you'd expect.

17 March 2023

Links of the Week: March 17, 2023: The Brittle

This week's links include the polycrisis, transparency, care vs fascism, and what museums should be doing about it all.

13 January 2023

Links of the Week: January 13, 2023: All the Pretty Trojan Horses

We laugh off some spectacles and collapses to our peril

12 August 2022

Links of the Week: August 12, 2022: The Fairness Spin

Are efforts to make museums fairer workplaces—including with DEAI—just going in circles?

05 August 2022

Links of the Week: August 5, 2022: Just Eff It?

The dividing line between "just eff it" and "no effing way" has shifted, and museum workers have taken note.

15 July 2022

Links of the Week: July 15, 2022: (Northern) Summer Grab Bag

Here are some links on mission creep, DEIA, crypto, and burnout.

17 June 2022

Links of the Week: June 17, 2022: Do the Contradiction

Remote/hybrid work contradictions are a sign of how far museum workplaces have to go.

02 November 2021

Museum Disruption Revisited (and Dismantling Visited)

Can museum workers really down bring their own system?

08 July 2021

Links of the Week: July 8, 2021: The Race Still to Run

Are museums really treating racism in the field as a problem requiring transformation?

22 June 2021

Agency and Autonomy in Museums

Autonomy and agency are the internal and external forms of self-actualization that all museum workers need.

08 June 2021

Co-Creation Requires a Museum Field Re-Creation

More museums are co-creating, but a deep and widespread practice will require a new org culture.

12 March 2021

Antiracism and Museum Organizational Culture

Antiracism isn't simply an action plan. For museums, that means rebuilding their own structure and culture into something new.