{"id":1988016,"date":"2026-06-12T10:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T07:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1988016"},"modified":"2026-06-12T10:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T07:00:19","slug":"the-war-against-imagination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1988016","title":{"rendered":"The War Against Imagination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><main class=\"gh-main\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"gh-article post tag-daily-newsletter tag-newsletter no-image\">\n<header class=\"gh-article-header gh-canvas\">\n<p>                Daily Newsletter<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"gh-article-title is-title\">The War Against Imagination<\/h1>\n<p class=\"gh-article-excerpt is-body\">The SAIC cracks down on a professor\u2019s thought experiment and the Obama Presidential Center embodies a nostalgic idea of public life.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gh-article-meta\">\n<div class=\"gh-article-author-image instapaper_ignore\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-profile-image\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/size\/w160\/2025\/11\/hyperallergic-favicon-d-blank-r-g-s-500.png\" alt=\"Hyperallergic\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"gh-article-meta-wrapper\">\n<h4 class=\"gh-article-author-name\">Hyperallergic<\/h4>\n<div class=\"gh-article-meta-content\"><time class=\"gh-article-meta-date\" datetime=\"2026-06-12\">June 12, 2026<\/time><span class=\"gh-article-meta-length\"><span class=\"bull\">\u2014<\/span> 4 min read<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<section class=\"gh-content gh-canvas is-body\">\n<p>An art therapy professor asked her students to imagine a therapeutic treatment plan for a queer Arab woman who feared retaliation under the Trump administration for supporting pro-Palestine protests. For that, the School of the Art Institute in Chicago (SAIC), one of the foremost art schools in the country, placed her on leave. It\u2019s a prime example of the rot authoritarianism introduces into democratic society \u2014\u00a0something we have to \u201cfight at every turn,\u201d Editor-at-Large Hrag Vartanian writes in an opinion piece today.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mere minutes away from the SAIC, the Obama Presidential Center, opening to the public on Juneteenth, feels like a dispatch from an alternate timeline \u2014 a vision of public life built around pluralism, civic responsibility, hope, Lori Waxman writes today. If only that world extended beyond its granite walls.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Lisa Yin Zhang, associate editor<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/06\/SAIC.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n<p>They Want to Control Our Imagination<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tWhen oppression works its way into society, it does so by limiting our imagination first, stopping us from finding our way out of the tyranny of control by forcing us to curb what is possible, what we may need and not yet know.\n      <\/p>\n<p>\n      The recent story coming out of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) that Savneet Talwar, the director of its graduate art therapy program, was placed on leave after she asked students to \u201ccreate a mock therapeutic treatment plan for a queer Arab woman who sympathized with pro-Palestinian protests and feared retaliation under the Trump administration\u201d is a prime example of this decay that authoritarianism can insert into a democratic society, one that we have to fight at every turn. | Hrag Vartanian\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-cta-card kg-cta-bg-white kg-cta-immersive  kg-cta-has-img  \" data-layout=\"immersive\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label\"><span>SPONSORED<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-image-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/06\/CMoG_Image_5-1.png\" alt=\"CTA Image\" data-image-dimensions=\"2000x1125\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content-inner\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-text\">\n<p><b><strong>Tough Stuff: Women in The American Glass Studio<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Highlighting works from the 1960s through today, this survey at the Corning Museum of Glass celebrates the legacies of women artists who helped shape the Studio Glass Movement in the US.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>                            Learn more<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"queer-elders-series\">Queer Elders Series<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/06\/Sarah-Schulman.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tSarah Schulman\u2019s Four Decades of Lesbian Fiction<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\t\u201cNothing stops me except the publishing industry,\u201d quipped the novelist and AIDS historian, who cut her teeth as an East Village journalist writing for queer and feminist papers. | Lakshmi Rivera Amin\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"news\">News<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/06\/heywrd.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>A self-portrait by the painter Clarence Heyward on display at the Houston Museum of African American Culture was intentionally defaced last month by visitors, the Texas institution said this week.<\/li>\n<li>Along the Charleston waterfront, the International African American Museum has furloughed all its staff \u2014 including leadership \u2014 due to challenging financial conditions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"from-our-critics\">From Our Critics <\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/06\/obama-center.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tA Better World at the Obama Center<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tThe new campus is an expression of the former US president\u2019s civic ideals, and a reminder of how distant they now seem. | Lori Waxman\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"community\">Community<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/06\/japan-garden.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tRequired Reading<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tThis week: Jean Shin\u2019s memorial to the trees of Greenwood Cemetery, the 250th anniversary nobody wants, Pride bar-hopping, and more.\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tArt Movements: Sam Gilliam Foundation Names Its First Director<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tDr. Steve Nelson has been named the new Director of the Sam Gillman Foundation. Also, Aperture HQ announces fall opening date, and, uh, the New Museum partners with Penske Media?\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"from-the-archive\">From the Archive<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/06\/pride-march-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tHow New York City Got Its First Pride March<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tWhat started as a response to the 1969 Stonewall Uprising has evolved and expanded, taking on an added urgency amid Trump\u2019s ongoing attacks on LGBTQ+ people. | Maya Pontone\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<ul class=\"post-tags\">\n<li>\n                        Daily Newsletter\n                      <\/li>\n<li>\n                        Newsletter\n                      <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/main><\/p>\n<article class=\"gh-article post tag-daily-newsletter tag-newsletter no-image\">\n<header class=\"gh-article-header gh-canvas\">\n<p>                Daily Newsletter<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"gh-article-title is-title\">The War Against Imagination<\/h1>\n<p class=\"gh-article-excerpt is-body\">The SAIC cracks down on a professor\u2019s thought experiment and the Obama Presidential Center embodies a nostalgic idea of public life.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gh-article-meta\">\n<div class=\"gh-article-author-image instapaper_ignore\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-profile-image\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/size\/w160\/2025\/11\/hyperallergic-favicon-d-blank-r-g-s-500.png\" alt=\"Hyperallergic\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"gh-article-meta-wrapper\">\n<h4 class=\"gh-article-author-name\">Hyperallergic<\/h4>\n<div class=\"gh-article-meta-content\"><time class=\"gh-article-meta-date\" datetime=\"2026-06-12\">June 12, 2026<\/time><span class=\"gh-article-meta-length\"><span class=\"bull\">\u2014<\/span> 4 min read<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<section class=\"gh-content gh-canvas is-body\">\n<p>An art therapy professor asked her students to imagine a therapeutic treatment plan for a queer Arab woman who feared retaliation under the Trump administration for supporting pro-Palestine protests. For that, the School of the Art Institute in Chicago (SAIC), one of the foremost art schools in the country, placed her on leave. It\u2019s a prime example of the rot authoritarianism introduces into democratic society \u2014\u00a0something we have to \u201cfight at every turn,\u201d Editor-at-Large Hrag Vartanian writes in an opinion piece today.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mere minutes away from the SAIC, the Obama Presidential Center, opening to the public on Juneteenth, feels like a dispatch from an alternate timeline \u2014 a vision of public life built around pluralism, civic responsibility, hope, Lori Waxman writes today. If only that world extended beyond its granite walls.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Lisa Yin Zhang, associate editor<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/06\/SAIC.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n<p>They Want to Control Our Imagination<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tWhen oppression works its way into society, it does so by limiting our imagination first, stopping us from finding our way out of the tyranny of control by forcing us to curb what is possible, what we may need and not yet know.\n      <\/p>\n<p>\n      The recent story coming out of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) that Savneet Talwar, the director of its graduate art therapy program, was placed on leave after she asked students to \u201ccreate a mock therapeutic treatment plan for a queer Arab woman who sympathized with pro-Palestinian protests and feared retaliation under the Trump administration\u201d is a prime example of this decay that authoritarianism can insert into a democratic society, one that we have to fight at every turn. | Hrag Vartanian\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-cta-card kg-cta-bg-white kg-cta-immersive  kg-cta-has-img  \" data-layout=\"immersive\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label\"><span>SPONSORED<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-image-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/06\/CMoG_Image_5-1.png\" alt=\"CTA Image\" data-image-dimensions=\"2000x1125\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content-inner\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-text\">\n<p><b><strong>Tough Stuff: Women in The American Glass Studio<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Highlighting works from the 1960s through today, this survey at the Corning Museum of Glass celebrates the legacies of women artists who helped shape the Studio Glass Movement in the US.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>                            Learn more<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"queer-elders-series\">Queer Elders Series<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/06\/Sarah-Schulman.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tSarah Schulman\u2019s Four Decades of Lesbian Fiction<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\t\u201cNothing stops me except the publishing industry,\u201d quipped the novelist and AIDS historian, who cut her teeth as an East Village journalist writing for queer and feminist papers. | Lakshmi Rivera Amin\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"news\">News<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/06\/heywrd.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>A self-portrait by the painter Clarence Heyward on display at the Houston Museum of African American Culture was intentionally defaced last month by visitors, the Texas institution said this week.<\/li>\n<li>Along the Charleston waterfront, the International African American Museum has furloughed all its staff \u2014 including leadership \u2014 due to challenging financial conditions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"from-our-critics\">From Our Critics <\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/06\/obama-center.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tA Better World at the Obama Center<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tThe new campus is an expression of the former US president\u2019s civic ideals, and a reminder of how distant they now seem. | Lori Waxman\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"community\">Community<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/06\/japan-garden.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tRequired Reading<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tThis week: Jean Shin\u2019s memorial to the trees of Greenwood Cemetery, the 250th anniversary nobody wants, Pride bar-hopping, and more.\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tArt Movements: Sam Gilliam Foundation Names Its First Director<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tDr. Steve Nelson has been named the new Director of the Sam Gillman Foundation. Also, Aperture HQ announces fall opening date, and, uh, the New Museum partners with Penske Media?\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"from-the-archive\">From the Archive<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/06\/pride-march-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tHow New York City Got Its First Pride March<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tWhat started as a response to the 1969 Stonewall Uprising has evolved and expanded, taking on an added urgency amid Trump\u2019s ongoing attacks on LGBTQ+ people. | Maya Pontone\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<ul class=\"post-tags\">\n<li>\n                        Daily Newsletter\n                      <\/li>\n<li>\n                        Newsletter\n                      <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n<section class=\"gh-content gh-canvas is-body\">\n<p>An art therapy professor asked her students to imagine a therapeutic treatment plan for a queer Arab woman who feared retaliation under the Trump administration for supporting pro-Palestine protests. For that, the School of the Art Institute in Chicago (SAIC), one of the foremost art schools in the country, placed her on leave. It\u2019s a prime example of the rot authoritarianism introduces into democratic society \u2014\u00a0something we have to \u201cfight at every turn,\u201d Editor-at-Large Hrag Vartanian writes in an opinion piece today.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mere minutes away from the SAIC, the Obama Presidential Center, opening to the public on Juneteenth, feels like a dispatch from an alternate timeline \u2014 a vision of public life built around pluralism, civic responsibility, hope, Lori Waxman writes today. If only that world extended beyond its granite walls.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Lisa Yin Zhang, associate editor<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/06\/SAIC.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n<p>They Want to Control Our Imagination<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tWhen oppression works its way into society, it does so by limiting our imagination first, stopping us from finding our way out of the tyranny of control by forcing us to curb what is possible, what we may need and not yet know.\n      <\/p>\n<p>\n      The recent story coming out of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) that Savneet Talwar, the director of its graduate art therapy program, was placed on leave after she asked students to \u201ccreate a mock therapeutic treatment plan for a queer Arab woman who sympathized with pro-Palestinian protests and feared retaliation under the Trump administration\u201d is a prime example of this decay that authoritarianism can insert into a democratic society, one that we have to fight at every turn. | Hrag Vartanian\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-cta-card kg-cta-bg-white kg-cta-immersive  kg-cta-has-img  \" data-layout=\"immersive\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label\"><span>SPONSORED<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-image-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/06\/CMoG_Image_5-1.png\" alt=\"CTA Image\" data-image-dimensions=\"2000x1125\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content-inner\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-text\">\n<p><b><strong>Tough Stuff: Women in The American Glass Studio<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Highlighting works from the 1960s through today, this survey at the Corning Museum of Glass celebrates the legacies of women artists who helped shape the Studio Glass Movement in the US.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>                            Learn more<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"queer-elders-series\">Queer Elders Series<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/06\/Sarah-Schulman.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tSarah Schulman\u2019s Four Decades of Lesbian Fiction<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\t\u201cNothing stops me except the publishing industry,\u201d quipped the novelist and AIDS historian, who cut her teeth as an East Village journalist writing for queer and feminist papers. | Lakshmi Rivera Amin\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"news\">News<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/06\/heywrd.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>A self-portrait by the painter Clarence Heyward on display at the Houston Museum of African American Culture was intentionally defaced last month by visitors, the Texas institution said this week.<\/li>\n<li>Along the Charleston waterfront, the International African American Museum has furloughed all its staff \u2014 including leadership \u2014 due to challenging financial conditions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"from-our-critics\">From Our Critics <\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/06\/obama-center.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tA Better World at the Obama Center<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tThe new campus is an expression of the former US president\u2019s civic ideals, and a reminder of how distant they now seem. | Lori Waxman\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"community\">Community<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/06\/japan-garden.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tRequired Reading<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tThis week: Jean Shin\u2019s memorial to the trees of Greenwood Cemetery, the 250th anniversary nobody wants, Pride bar-hopping, and more.\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tArt Movements: Sam Gilliam Foundation Names Its First Director<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tDr. Steve Nelson has been named the new Director of the Sam Gillman Foundation. Also, Aperture HQ announces fall opening date, and, uh, the New Museum partners with Penske Media?\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"from-the-archive\">From the Archive<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/06\/pride-march-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tHow New York City Got Its First Pride March<br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tWhat started as a response to the 1969 Stonewall Uprising has evolved and expanded, taking on an added urgency amid Trump\u2019s ongoing attacks on LGBTQ+ people. | Maya Pontone\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRead More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<ul class=\"post-tags\">\n<li>\n                        Daily Newsletter\n                      <\/li>\n<li>\n                        Newsletter\n                      <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<article class=\"gh-card post\">\n<figure class=\"gh-card-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/size\/w600\/2026\/06\/Rochelle-Saunders-in-the-studio_59415.jpg\" alt=\"Discover MA Arts and Cultural Enterprise at Central Saint Martins\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"gh-card-wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"gh-card-title is-title\">Discover MA Arts and Cultural Enterprise at Central Saint Martins<\/h3>\n<p class=\"gh-card-excerpt is-body\">Develop business skills for cultural management and production on this flexible, part-time online Masters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<footer class=\"gh-card-meta\"><span class=\"gh-card-author\">Central Saint Martins<\/span><\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"gh-card post\">\n<figure class=\"gh-card-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/size\/w600\/2026\/05\/Lysistrata4.jpg\" alt=\"Indian Theater: Native Performance, Art, and Self-Determination since 1969\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"gh-card-wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"gh-card-title is-title\">Indian Theater: Native Performance, Art, and Self-Determination since 1969<\/h3>\n<p class=\"gh-card-excerpt is-body\">Featuring live presentations, this exhibition grounds performance as the foundation of contemporary Native Art. 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