Crystal Bridges Pimps Politics, Things Go Toxic at the Smithsonian, and Fresh Rembrandts Sell

I haven’t written a piece about art news in a few weeks. Summer it may be, but the glass hive is abuzz even when thermostats sizzle.

The other day I read about a new, nebulous initiative called Remuseum. It’s a nonprofit within a nonprofit, here Crystal Bridges Museum in Bentonville in Arkansas. It aims to revolutionize museums through new models in financial sustainability, public engagement, and governance. Reading the tea leaves for meaning led me nowhere. Nor did parsing animal innards.