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The Toledo Museum of Art Is Deaccessioning Impressionist Works to Diversify Its Collection

by Elaine Velie April 27, 2022April 27, 2022

The Ohio museum is planning to auction off three paintings by Cézanne, Renoir, and Matisse with the goal of “broadening the narrative of art history.”

Posted inOpinion

How an Art Museum Betrays Its Social Class Bias

by Truman Chambers June 15, 2021July 15, 2021

When I worked as a security guard at the Toledo Museum of Art there was no mechanism by which the frontline staff could help shape the museum’s content.

Posted inArt

Three Artists Illustrate the Expressive Potential of Drawing

by Sarah Rose Sharp January 28, 2021January 28, 2021

In Telling Stories, Robyn O’Neil, Amy Cutler, and Annie Pootoogook showcase the continued utility of this ancient art form to stunning effect.

Posted inArt

The Subversive Power of Quilting

by Sarah Rose Sharp December 21, 2020January 27, 2021

As Radical Tradition affirms, the act of creating whole cloth from scraps is not just a matter of making ends meet, but an empowering act of reclamation.

Posted inOpinion

Amid Historic Black Lives Matter Protests, One Museum’s Call for a “Nonpartisan Approach” Disappoints

by Valentina Di Liscia June 5, 2020November 5, 2020

“Let me reemphasize this point: the Toledo Museum of Art does not have a political stance,” director Adam Levine wrote, prompting criticism. But oppression is not a question of political ideology, it is factual.

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A Museum Gains Prominence Through Collecting Native American Artists’ Work

by Jonathan Rinck February 21, 2019February 20, 2019

A gem of a museum in Ohio known for European masterpieces, gains contemporary relevance.

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An Ohio Sculpture Festival that Is Curiously Light on Sculpture

by Sarah Rose Sharp October 25, 2018

Heavy on interactive works, audience intervention, and social practice art, Toledo’s annual sculpture festival raises the question of why we organize festivals around the theme of common discipline.

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Celebrating Outstanding Glass Artists Who Happen to Be Women

by Sarah Rose Sharp January 8, 2018

Fired Up: Contemporary Glass by Women Artists at the Toledo Museum of Art is an outstanding show, but there is little to convince me that “female glass art” occupies a necessarily separate category than “glass art.”

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Analyzing 50 Years of American Political Advertising

by Sarah Rose Sharp September 26, 2016

I Approve This Message: Decoding Political Ads is dedicated to the granular dissection of the visual semiotics and rhetorical stylings of political advertising.

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Could a Survey of American Indian Art Tell the Human Stories Behind Beautiful Objects?

by Sarah Rose Sharp April 22, 2016April 28, 2016

TOLEDO — Indigenous Beauty: Masterworks of American Indian Art from the Diker Collection presents a conundrum of conscience.

Posted inOpinion

Toledo Museum Justifiably Touchy About NY Times Holocaust Restitution Claim

by Jillian Steinhauer July 2, 2013

The Toledo Museum of Art is unhappy with its representation in a Times piece about the increasing failure of American museums to restitute Nazi-looted art.

Posted inOpinion

Is This Video Ad for an Art Exhibition or Diamonds?

by Jillian Steinhauer October 8, 2012October 8, 2012

Exhibition trailers have been around for a while now, but every once in a while one comes along that’s markedly different. The Toledo Museum of Art has one of those, for the exhibition Manet: Portraying Life, which opened at the museum yesterday.

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