Museums need to focus on artistic quality, not Twitter-pleasing identity politics
The Cartoon Museum’s internal ‘audit’ is a predictable step – and not necessarily as thoughtful as it wants the public to think
14 December 2020 • 11:07am
One of Hogarth s engravings from The Rake s Progress ; the great satirist s work is out of favour at the Cartoon Museum
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Who would be a museum curator today? Exhibitions have always had a double meaning: they reveal plenty of clues about their own era, not just the history of the items displayed. But the job of today’s artistic directors seems to be more about public relations than public engagement with history.