What public art museums are for when the ground shifts

Museums are among the few civic places designed to sustain shared attention and contested memory in public.
Public art museums protect the symbolic commons and hold time against speed, writes Zainub Verjee.

In the world “as it is”—as Prime Minister Mark Carney put it—public museums stop being amenities and become civic equipment when the ground shifts. Not because they deter armies or rewrite trade regimes, but because sovereignty depends on what they help preserve: a p...

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