Is Museum Wall Text the Next Political Battleground?

The Smithsonian has changed or eliminated some interpretive language that typically accompanies exhibited artworks. Critics ...
Artnet

A Massachusetts Museum Is Taking a New Approach to Wall Text: Revealing Early American Portrait Sitters With Ties to Slavery

For decades, Massachusetts’s Worcester Art Museum has displayed the portraits of early American men and women, painted by artists such as John Singleton Copley and Gilbert Stuart. Often commissioned ...
Hyperallergic

Warhol Museum Wall Text About “Middle East Conflict” Draws Criticism

An installation view of Andy Warhol's Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century (1980) series of silk-screened prints on canvas (all images used with permission) The Andy Warhol Museum in ...
Artnet

Following ACT UP Protest, the Whitney Draws Attention to the Ongoing AIDS Epidemic With a New David Wojnarowicz Wall Text

New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art has added new wall text about David Wojnarowicz’s membership in AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, better known as ACT UP, to the artist’s critically acclaimed ...
The New York Times

Smithsonian Adds Back Impeachment Language to Label on Trump Portrait

The language had been removed from wall text in the National Portrait Gallery, but it’s back as the museum unveiled changes to its exhibition on U.S. presidents. By Zachary Small and Deborah Lynn ...