Against our volatile national landscape, recent museums re-openings have been a tentative step toward normalcy for many of us. Yet the fraught politics of the art world persist, as marginalized artists continue to vie for visibility.

Two of this weekend’s contributors weigh in on these politics. Martha Buskirk considers the ethics of museums investing in Rodin reproductions rather than underrepresented artists while David Carrier assesses David Joselit’s analysis of Western cultural hegemony and non-Western resistance through regional representation.

Meanwhile, Louis Bury steps back from the chaos of humanity to reflect on Martha Tuttle’s object-oriented philosophy, which asks us, “What does a stone think about?”