TY  - RPRT
TI  - After the Interpretation Changes: Correction, Completion, and the Circulation of Museum Titles
AU  - Vale, Dorian
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/10/17
PB  - Museum of One
T2  - Museum of One Research Working Papers
M1  - 2
ET  - 1.0
LA  - en
SP  - 1
EP  - 10
DO  - 10.5281/zenodo.23430200
UR  - https://www.museumofone.art/after-the-interpretation-changes/
KW  - Post-Interpretive Criticism
KW  - Museum of One
KW  - Dorian Vale
KW  - Alexander Viktorovich Markov
KW  - Museum titles
KW  - Museum cataloguing
KW  - Correction
KW  - Completion
KW  - Circulation
KW  - Interpretive authority
KW  - Rijksmuseum
KW  - Simon Maris
KW  - Isabella
KW  - Europeana
KW  - Wikimedia Commons
KW  - Collection records
KW  - Cultural heritage metadata
KW  - Documentary research
KW  - Provenance
KW  - Historical evidence
KW  - Art historiography
KW  - Documentation
KW  - Deactivation
KW  - Contestability
KW  - Semantic persistence
KW  - Reauthorization
KW  - Successional authority
KW  - Museum terminology
KW  - Dutch art
KW  - Aesthetics
KW  - Philosophy of Art
KW  - Art Criticism
KW  - Art Theory
KW  - Visual Culture Studies
KW  - Ethics in Art Criticism
KW  - Interpretation and Meaning
KW  - Interpretive Restraint
KW  - Criticism and Reception Theory
KW  - Epistemology of Art
AB  - This study distinguishes two changes in the Rijksmuseum’s presentation of Simon Maris’s portrait now titled Isabella: the withdrawal of a racialized catalogue title in 2015, and the fulfilment in 2020 of an announced intention to adopt a name when one became known. The second change does not, by itself, demonstrate revision of the rule governing the first. The records examined at Europeana and Wikimedia Commons reveal different afterlives of the later decision. Europeana retains the descriptive title and an account in which identification remains unfinished. Commons preserves the older wording in the name of its image file while identifying the work as Isabella in the accompanying description. Drawing on my correspondence with Alexander V. Markov, the study follows what these descriptions do, rather than treating their survival as evidence of continuing authority. It finds uneven presentation of the later naming decision, not a demonstrated restoration of the rejected title. Its contribution to Post-Interpretive Criticism is a documentary distinction among correction, completion and circulation.
N1  - Independently authored by Dorian Vale and published by Museum of One as Research Working Paper No. 2, version 1.0. Developed through scholarly correspondence with Alexander Viktorovich Markov and his subsequent critical response to the documentary study. Selected passages and summaries are reproduced with his permission. Markov is not a coauthor, and the study is not a record of formal peer review or agreement with every proposal. The full private correspondence is not published.
N1  - © 2026 Dorian Vale · Museum of One. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 applies to the author's original contribution. Rights in third-party material and the original correspondence remain with their respective holders. Permission for selected correspondence material does not extend to reproduction of the full exchange.
N1  - Author ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-7737-5094. Affiliation: Museum of One.
N1  - Institutional metadata: Museum of One (publisher and author affiliation), ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000528819728. Subject identity: Post-Interpretive Criticism, https://www.museumofone.art/doctrine/#post-interpretive-criticism. These identifiers describe the institution and subject, not the author or this work.
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