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Caitlin Flanagan

Caitlin Flanagan is a columnist at The Free Press and the author of several books, including Girl Land and To Hell with All That: Loving and Loathing Our Inner Housewife.

Caitlin Flanagan: How to Wreck a Museum

Art history now teaches that ‘putting things in categories’ is bad—which is how galleries end up feeling like a garage sale.

August 7, 2026

Caitlin Flanagan

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