Art House
Should an art museum teach, and if so, how and what? Should it entertain? Is it a community center?
Brian Allen is the art critic for National Review. He directed the museum division of the New-York Historical Society (2013-15) and the Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, in Andover, Massachusetts (2004-13).
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