Hartford’s Wadsworth Atheneum Fires a Longtime Employee for Requesting a Definition of ‘Systemic Racism’

There are many reasons to skip museums in giving end-of-fiscal-year gifts. Places like the Getty and the Met, with multibillion-dollar endowments, are worthy but not needy, though the Met is worthy only part of the time.

Also on the no-dough list ought to be college and university museums that stayed shut as long as they possibly could during the Covid calamity. These include museums at Harvard, Yale, and Dartmouth, but the list’s a long, shameful one.