Daily Newsletter Plus, John Yau on Édouard Glissant’s collection, Sotheby’s holds a benefit auction for the Yale MFA program, and more. April 30, 2026 — 3 min read The late philosopher Édouard Glissant saw the world as an archipelago, a non-hierarchical cluster of distinct but connected islands. To him, art wasn’t about ownership, but a commons — a living archive attentive to difference, but defined by relation and provisional alliances. It’s a way of thinking that is “practically unheard of in America,” critic John Yau writes in a review of an exhibition of Glissant’s collection at the Center for Art, Research and Alliances (CARA) in New York. “We are the poorer for it.” Yep. As if to prove that point, the Trump administration announced this week that it plans to issue passports prominently displaying the president’s portrait and signature.…