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Jun 24, 2020 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
Over the last couple weeks, art museum staff - especially at SFMOMA, Philadelphia and the Guggenheim - have highlighted how too many art museums are acting like corporations, not charities.
Let's take a moment to talk about that, and to consider what might be done about it. 1/x
Art museum governance has been in a low-grade state of crisis for years.
Art museums are not run like other non-profit charities. Their boards are almost entirely made up of rich folks whose only qualification for art museum leadership is that they shop for art.
Jun 8, 2020 • 20 tweets • 6 min read
I'd like to write a book about history, art and their influences within this one @JuliaRendleman photograph. It's the most extraordinary picture I've seen since Jonathan Bachman's 2016 picture of Ieshia Evans confronting hyper-militarized Baton Rouge police.
It's troubling and deserves further investigation (which is to say I hope media critics take a good hard look at this).
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On Sunday the NYT ran a story about artist Deborah Roberts.
Hurray!
Roberts was a guest on The Modern Art Notes Podcast in 2018 on the occasion of her first-ever museum solo show @SpelmanMuseum.
