Museums consolidate power, access and culture problem

Summary

The problem slide, on an electric-cyan field: a black headline argues museums consolidate power and fail to capture their value, evidenced by a fan of real news clippings and two black stat cards labeled "Access" and "Culture".

Visual description

Full-bleed electric cyan (#22D3E0), the deck's one non-black background. Top-left, a large four-line black grotesque headline: "Museums are great businesses run backwards, but they consolidate power and fail to take advantage of their value creation." Below it, a loose overlapping stack of real newspaper-clipping screenshots (New York Times and others) about museum and art-world controversies. The right column holds two black rounded cards with cyan titles: "Access" (with stats like "display less than 5%", "89.3% of museum board members are white", "100% white") and "Culture" ("The winners write history", board makeup, trust at an all-time low). Each card uses tick-marked bullet lines. A small sources line sits bottom-right; the "arkive" wordmark runs up the left edge in black.

Key takeaway

Switching to one bold background color to mark the problem section, then proving the case two ways at once: emotional (a messy fan of real headlines) and quantified (tidy stat cards). The overlapping clippings feel like evidence pinned to a board.

Reuse notes

A reusable problem-slide template when you have both a narrative grievance and hard numbers. The clipping collage signals "this is really happening" but needs legible, credible sources; keep the cards for the stats that matter. The single cyan background is a strong section marker against an otherwise dark deck.