Keffiyeh Kerfuffle & DEI Comeuppance in the Art World

It’s time for my end-of-month, in-the-news roundup. Art’s on the move, and so are people, some to new jobs, some to the barricades, and at least one to what I hope is a festive party after a court win she very much deserved.

I’ve written many times about the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Conn., one of America’s most distinguished museums with, alas, what also has to be America’s worst board of trustees. Self-important, cheap, and bourgeois in the worst way, this crew has lost good directors, bungled opportunities, and embraced pipe dreams over and over in the nearly 50 years I’ve followed the place. Since the 2020 Black Lives Matter mostly peaceful riots and arson fest, the board, almost all from Hartford’s hoity-toity suburbs, went from champagne pink to thermo-woke. In response, I’ve dished the radioactive dirt.

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Brian T. Allen

Brian T. Allen is National Review’s art critic.

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It’s time for my end-of-month, in-the-news roundup. Art’s on the move, and so are people, some to new jobs, some to the barricades, and at least one to what I hope is a festive party after a court win she very much deserved.

I’ve written many times about the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Conn., one of America’s most distinguished museums with, alas, what also has to be America’s worst board of trustees. Self-important, cheap, and bourgeois in the worst way, this crew has lost good directors, bungled opportunities, and embraced pipe dreams over and over in the nearly 50 years I’ve followed the place. Since the 2020 Black Lives Matter mostly peaceful riots and arson fest, the board, almost all from Hartford’s hoity-toity suburbs, went from champagne pink to thermo-woke. In response, I’ve dished the radioactive dirt.