More than twenty years have passed since scholars Carol Duncan, Brian O’Doherty, and Alan Wallach published their groundbreaking critical analyses of art museums and their display strategies. These incisive essays launched a wave of vehement institutional critiques that effectively pitted critically informed academic concerns against contemporary museum practices. Two of the more recent additions to the fray—Mary Anne Staniszewski’s The Power of Display and the Open University’s Contemporary Cultures of Display, edited by Emma Barker—indicate...