Changing Up The ‘History’ Part Of Art History In Museums To Mix Old, New, And Whatever Else Fits

The museum buzzword is “transhistorical,” and it’s being applied to everything from Franz Hals paintings to the Met’s big “Unfinished” exhibition from 2016. “Suzanne Sanders, an art historian in Amsterdam, who organized conferences on ‘The Transhistorical Museum’ in 2015 and 2016, calls transhistorical curating ‘the most urgent thing curators are doing in trying to reinvent the museum to create some sort of new paradigm.'”