What could museums do?

Museums should be public institutions in the service of training the visual mind.

Museums can be generous scholars, effusive storytellers and kind hosts.

What is meant by educating people in the arts? Whether artists, critics or non-artsy people, we are training curious and independent thinkers.

Somewhere under all of the layers of art history and the frames and pedestals, museums are concerned, profoundly, with imagination. Imagination matters in understanding other people and to avoiding stereotypes.