The Baltimore Museum of Art made a bold
decision to sell three important paintings.
The blowback has gone national
The Baltimore Sun,
by
Jonathan M. Pitts
&
Christine Condon
Original Article
Posted By: TheRevJMP,
10/27/2020 5:20:26 PM
When Baltimore’s oldest art museum decided to sell three of its most prominent paintings, including a major work by pop-art icon Andy Warhol, to raise millions of dollars toward its avowed goal of promoting diversity, the reaction was swift and mostly fierce. More than 150 prominent supporters, including former board chairs and members, signed a letter to the Maryland attorney general calling for a halt to the sale.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
SkyTexas 10/27/2020 6:00:49 PM (No. 586661)
Can't read it - subscribers only!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Terry_tr6 10/27/2020 6:20:53 PM (No. 586678)
no pay wall for me...
interesting, most of the $ appears to go to fund salaries, only a small amount for artists "of color"
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
jj1319 10/27/2020 6:21:36 PM (No. 586679)
I can only imagine (certainly wouldn't attend) what a meeting with those prim a-donas would be like. I can feel the petulance from here.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Newtsche 10/27/2020 6:21:59 PM (No. 586680)
I was able to access by opening in a private window, like I needed to validate the pathetic virtue signalling.
From the BMA's director Christopher Bedford --
FTA - “We are not seeking any longer the trust of the privileged white few that has enjoyed museums like the BMA historically.”
FTA - “Adherence to the previous playbook is what has led us into irrelevance,” he says. “When I step back, I have absolutely no doubt that institutions like ours will be on the right side of history when history is written.”
No visual examples of what diverse replacements are afoot, what is the graphic equivalent of doggerel?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
marbles 10/27/2020 6:27:04 PM (No. 586686)
If you can get someone to pay a lot ( a lot a lot ) of money for really bad art , good for you. Then to go ahead and use the money for diversity.................????????????.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
FleetUSA 10/27/2020 6:29:12 PM (No. 586689)
Get woke, go broke
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 10/27/2020 6:33:52 PM (No. 586693)
No pay wall. Obviously, these self-loathing leftists don't deserve these works. Why don't they give them away to send a massive "virtue signal?"
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DARling 10/27/2020 6:37:55 PM (No. 586701)
The article via a Yahoo link:
https://news.yahoo.com/baltimore-museum-art-made-bold-010000997.html
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DVC 10/27/2020 6:41:38 PM (No. 586708)
Grubbing for money to do more race baiting. How wonderful.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Ribicon 10/27/2020 6:55:32 PM (No. 586726)
No paywall for me. To the point, it's rare to see People of Color in art museums. Likewise classical music concerts, historic sites such as homes of former presidents and other notables, nature hikes, and what have you. Maybe it's just not their thing, which is fine; to each his own.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
earlybird 10/27/2020 7:03:13 PM (No. 586737)
No paywall.
Did you look at the paintings? Two could have been done by kindergarteners - one looks like chalk scribbling on a blackboard; the other is just a lot of paint slapped on a canvas. The Warhol silk screen is interesting.
They are selling them to raise money to go with more diversity.
Let the left take it out on the Left, right?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
LeeBertie 10/27/2020 7:12:20 PM (No. 586743)
Pay walls like this one are easily circumvented simply by doing a search for the article being blocked. In this case, search Baltimore Museum of Art and you will find the same article from the York Dispatch and Yahoo and a similar article on Artnet News.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Vesicant 10/27/2020 7:19:34 PM (No. 586754)
If they really wanted to "increase access," they'd turn the museum into a hotel for the homeless. I'm sure they'd take good care of all that art. But this is nothing but a piece of performance art called "Virtue Signaling for Dollars."
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It hardly matters nobody visits Baltimore anymore- it’s just too dangerous. The Inner Harbor has become what Joe Biden would call a jungle
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
OhioNick 10/27/2020 8:07:01 PM (No. 586792)
This is madness! Affirmative-Action is destroying this country. This story reminds of a somewhat similar move in Cleveland where the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame recently named a far-left, black woman with little knowledge about rock and roll history to one of the museum's top posts, the chief curator.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
greggojo 10/27/2020 8:35:35 PM (No. 586807)
Great art is great art. It matters not the color or ethnicity or sex of who produced the work. What the BMA is doing, is selling three great pieces of art and using the money to promote diversity in the museum, including buying works by women and "people of color". Symphonies are doing the same thing...Forget about Bach and Mozart, they're just dead white guys. This is just further proof that Liberalism damages everything it touches.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
lakerman1 10/27/2020 9:32:52 PM (No. 586835)
I come from a family of artists, but the gene seems to have skipped over me.
yet I appreciate good art, and believe there is a post civil war genre of self taught black artists, especially from the South, to be really interesting.
(Antiques Road Show often includes such examples.) I would think an art museum could acquire that kind of art without selling off assets, unless they are simply virtue signaling..
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
AltaD 10/27/2020 10:25:02 PM (No. 586859)
FTA: “Who’s going to give the Baltimore Museum of Art their prized painting or sculpture if they’re afraid that maybe in 20 years, the museum is going to dump it for some pet project?” Knight said in an interview.
I hadn't thought of this and evidently, neither has Mr. Bedford or the board of trustees.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
RightOfRight 10/27/2020 11:44:18 PM (No. 586894)
I would KILL to own that Clyfford Still...
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
konocti95 10/27/2020 11:50:49 PM (No. 586897)
I read the article several times but couldn't find a picture of anything that looked like it was worth
$100 dollars, let alone millions.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Trigger2 10/27/2020 11:55:10 PM (No. 586900)
We've got enough damn diversity in this country. They're all entitled and act like it.
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Intellectually, the country is in the toilet. Have We "dumbed down" enough yet ?
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