Ep 116: Madeleine Grynsztejn of The MCA Chicago on Unintended Consequences

"The Questioning Leader".  

Madeleine has been the Director of The MCA Chicago for 12 years. She thinks about art and its role in society four-dimensionally. She thinks about museums the same way.

In the last two weeks, some of our conversation will feel like it is from another era. Because it is.

But regardless of how much we flatten the curve or don’t, a new society will form out of the one we are leaving behind. 

It is the way of human beings to evolve and adapt. And art and museums will be both a provocation for and a reflection of the decisions we make.

Every decision has consequences.

It’s important to worry about the intended ones.

But the unintended ones matter just as much. 

And sometimes more.