Identity Exchange

We had our symposium yesterday and there is much to say about it. Let it suffice, for the moment anyway, to say it was great and excellent and I, at least, really enjoyed everything people discussed and presented. Before writing more about it, I wanted to connect a piece I wrote for BadatSports about the American Folk Art Museum. It seems like it might have some bearing here, on this site, because I try to talk about what it means for an institution to have a collection–how the collection and the institution mutually define one another with, say, a reciprocal exchange of identity. You can check it out by going here.