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On Feb.14, 2021, urban planner Danicia Monet posted a link to an open letter on her Facebook page, with its primary demand that Newfields CEO and president Charles Venable step down from the position he had occupied at the museum since 2012. That he ultimately did step down was certainly a dramatic development, but it may also be part of a broader shift occurring in arts institutions across the country and around the world. Monet’s letter quickly gained 2219 signatures.  Those who signed the letter insisted Venable step down because of a Newfields job posting that sought a museum dire...

I got the People's Vaccine, Montreal Laura Holzman has occasionally found herself at the intersection of art and medicine in her career as an academic and public scholar. In her book Contested Image, she highlighted the fight to keep the painting “The Gross Clinic” by Thomas Eakins — depicting 19th century surgeon Samuel Gross — in Philadelphia. Last year she created an exhibit, together with Meredith Brickell, that was part of Fix, Heartbreak and Hope inside our Opioid Crisis at the Indiana State Museum.  This time around Holzman, an associate professor of art history...