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Baltimore Museum of Art acquires its first piece of performance art
The performance by Jefferson Pinder is one of more than 100 new acquisitions recently announced by the institution
How women played a bigger role in the Renaissance and beyond
Two exhibitions, in Boston and Baltimore, celebrate the overlooked women artists who were working in Europe from the 15th century onwards
Baltimore Museum of Art acquires LaToya Ruby Frazier installation honouring community healthcare workers
The installation spotlights health workers that helped underserved communities in Baltimore at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic
Art market wobble: what happens if banks go bust?
Plus, hip hop in Baltimore and Juan de Pareja, the artist enslaved by Velázquez
Workers at the Baltimore Museum of Art vote to form a wall-to-wall union
In a vote on 14 July, 89 workers voted to unionise while 29 voted to not, making the museum the latest US art institution to join the labour movement
Baltimore Museum of Art director Christopher Bedford will leave to lead SFMoMA
Bedford, like his SFMoMA predecessor Neal Benezra, very publicly ran afoul of industry conventions around deaccessioning and selling works from museum collections
How Nari Ward’s hearse installation went from the Whitney Biennial to a permanent home (with a detour via partial destruction)
Ward re-created the funerary work in 2020, decades after a standout debut at the Whitney Biennial; it has now been acquired by the Baltimore Museum of Art
'Heart of Matisse': new study centre dedicated to Modern master opens at Baltimore Museum of Art
US museum builds a permanent research space for its "crown jewel"—more than 1,200 works by Henri Matisse
Disney at the Met—but is it art?
Plus, a new centre to study Matisse at Baltimore Museum of Art and Josef Albers's lithographs at Cristea Roberts in London
Henri Matisse, as only the collector Etta Cone knew him
Baltimore Museum of Art exhibition pays tribute to the French artist and his most ardent American patron
Amid financial adversity, can a museum association emerge as an innovative leader on deaccessioning?
Association of Art Museum Directors should permanently recognise “direct care” of collections as a proper use of art sale proceeds
Security guards become guest curators at the Baltimore Museum of Art
The forthcoming show, developed with the help of art historian Lowery Stokes Sims, aims to highlight a “multiplicity of curatorial voices in major institutions”
Exclusive survey: what progress have US museums made on diversity, after a year of racial reckoning?
We asked art institutions around the country about their efforts to diversify their workforces, exhibition programmes, permanent collections and audiences
Tschabalala Self reimagines Matisse’s Two Women as a contemporary couple
For her show at the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Harlem-born artist has responded to a sculpture by the Post-Impressionist
Baltimore Museum of Art director defends diversity goals that his institution hoped to meet through art sales
At a conference on deaccessioning, Christopher Bedford says that museum collections are “a literal manifestation” of prejudice and privilege
After thwarted art sales, Baltimore Museum of Art marshalls funding to promote diversity and equity
Institution announces $1.46m in gifts to finance goals such as pay increases for hourly workers and extended visiting hours
Acquisitions round-up: flag and sledge from British polar expedition saved from leaving UK
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter international museum collections
John Waters, the ‘Pope of Trash’, gives his treasures to Baltimore Museum of Art
The director and film-maker has donated around 375 works to his hometown institution—and will have a pair of restrooms named after him
Giacometti, De Chirico and Alfa Romeo cars lead Sotheby's $283m New York sales after major museum works abruptly pulled
Following weeks of controversy, the Baltimore Museum of Art withdrew two paintings just hours before the auction while many other works sold near low estimates
Baltimore Museum of Art calls off sale of Warhol, Still and Marden after outcry
Last-gasp decision after talks with the US museum directors association comes just before a Sotheby’s auction
US Association of Art Museum Directors sends a warning note to its members on deaccessioning
As works head to market, organisation reminds members that its relaxed rules were not adopted to “incentivise” art sales
Assailing leadership, two former board chairmen say they are rescinding $50m in planned gifts to Baltimore Museum of Art
Two artists also step down as board trustees amid turmoil over plans to deaccession three paintings
The great museum sell-off: should public collections deaccession to survive Covid-19?
Plus, the artist Jennifer Packer on a Buddhist mural in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York
Responding to outcry, Baltimore Museum of Art board chair defends deaccessioning decision
“The greatness of the BMA’s collection does not live within three individual paintings,” she says as the sale of a Warhol, Still and Marden approaches
Former trustees and donors ask state to block sale of three important works by the Baltimore Museum of Art
Letter asks Maryland attorney general and secretary of state to investigate planned deaccessioning of a Warhol, Still and Marden
Baltimore Museum of Art curators respond to deaccessioning criticism
Equity and diversity make history fairer, more accurate and more meaningful in the present, they say
‘Uniquely egregious’: The disturbing precedent of the Baltimore Museum of Art’s deaccessioning plan
Sale of three valuable paintings by Warhol, Still and Marden points to a thirst for a $65m windfall, with no curatorial rationale
Baltimore Museum of Art will sell important paintings by Warhol, Still and Marden
Acting on relaxed rules, it will use the funds for collection care and salary increases as well as diverse acquisitions
Institutions need to follow artists’ lead to make a material impact on the world
Museums can learn a lot from artists like Mark Bradford, Shan Wallace and Rick Lowe about how to more effectively engage with their communities
Baltimore Museum of Art dedicates a year of exhibitions to women
From Georgia O’Keeffe to Mickalene Thomas, the museum will aim to address diversity gaps