I came across the attached article online this morning. It is a historically well informed argument, hardly surprising given its author, for the benefits of impoverished museums: more concentration on the art and less on the panoply of treating museums as visitor attractions; and sympathetic to a new generation coming into museums with counter-cultural political interests, upset by the dominance of trustees and the ways they make their fortunes.

https://www.artforum.com/print/202106/the-modest-museum-85771?s=09