The thing I find offensive here is that the activity and language of the Wellcome Museum is the precise opposite of the empancipatory, liberal values of the Enlightenment. Instead of engaging, it see… (View Post)

It makes a series of questionable, sententious assertions about how problematic everything is (the objects, the founder, possibly the act of curation itself), before concluding that the only moral ch… (View Post)

Actually Leon is quite right about this particular instance, even if I demur on many of his other Twitter-inspired diatribes. Just read what Wellcome have said, it’s bonkers. (View Post)

The Wellcome Trust news is batshit. Every angle of it, including the pathetic mewling on Twitter. ”The very fact that these items have ended up in one place, the story we told was that of a man with … (View Post)

That placard reads like a parody, like something from Private Eye. Every sentence is a keeper. If Wellcome think that the very idea of museums is exploitatively “re-centering the white cis-male body”… (View Post)