An Entire Museum for One Painting

A weekend read, an escape from the news.

My thoughts about the election results are still brewing, and I will post them when I have something of value to say. For the moment, all I can offer you are a short contribution on the most recent episode of the Identity/Crisis podcast (beginning at 16:20), and the article I posted after October 7.

I won’t lie: the results impacted me much more deeply than I ever imagined. I’d like to have the words, but I’m not there yet.

In the meantime, I’d like to share with you something I’m proud of: a short story just published by—perhaps surprisingly!—the American Alliance of Museums.

The story is part of a larger effort to figure out how museums should deal with the repatriation of artifacts. In addition to commissioning a number of essays, they also asked a few writers to craft responses in the form of speculative fiction.

The result is Descent, a story with depth (you’ll see what I mean). It’s possibly my most favorite commission; just receiving it made me glow.

You can read the story here.