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In a public letter yesterday and in an interview with Hyperallergic, Clair Zamoiski Segal, chair of the board of trustees, addressed criticism of the BMA’s decision to sell three paintings from its collection.
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Art historian Michael Fried and former BMA director Arnold Lehman signed an open letter sent to the state of Maryland last week, and a former board member has written to the museum’s board.
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A group of 23 former board and committee members is demanding a formal investigation into what it calls the “hasty and opaque deaccession” of three paintings from the museum’s collection.
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The BMA plans to sell three works by Brice Marden, Clyfford Still, and Andy Warhol. It will funnel $10 million of the proceeds into a fund to acquire works by women and artists of color.
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Starting this June, the BMA will provide resources as well as financial support to local artists, galleries, and communities.
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Few artists have reinvented themselves in their prime the way Jo Smail has; few have had to.
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Most shows can’t or don’t hold these very separate aspects in synchronous rotation: sober assessment of an art historical lineage and a feeling of intimacy. This one does.
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Considering that only 4% of the 95,000 artworks in the BMA’s permanent collection were created by women, it makes the decision practical as well as political.
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Two exhibitions at the Baltimore Museum of Art revel in the unique strangeness of one’s mind.
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The individual visual narratives in Time Frames make up our collective human history.
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Maren Hassinger’s retrospective The Spirit of Things at the Baltimore Museum of Art not only validates her career but indicates something about our current political moment.
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Deaccessioning — the permanent removal of objects and art from a museum's collection — has been at the forefront of many discussions around public and private collections of late.