but turkeys took over
Lest we forget how, in 2014, the Toledo Museum of Art finished the cultural tradition belonging to Toledo artists for nearly 100 years… the annual Toledo Area Artists Exhibition… supposedly juried but rigged, stuffed with insiders….
It was a sad sign of things to come…
Clear the galleries – ship off the artwork — while the museum installs trackers for a better visitor experience
Toledo Museum of Art is spending enough money on their new HVAC system for every household in Toledo (about 100,000 households) to be able to throw out their old air conditioner and replace it with a brand a new one. That’s 100,000 new air conditioners!
They recently paid Air Force One $605,020 to replace the temperature controls on their HVAC system, but what’s another $25 million?
turkeys needs to get their story straight
Just a few weeks ago, “there was no universe where every gallery in the Toledo Museum of Art wasn’t going to have to close by 2027 because we had to replace the HVAC for the preservation of the artwork,” said TMA director Adam Levine in an interview with The Blade. (August 24, 2025)
Now, it’s about “preparing the museum for a future in which personalization is as expected in museums as it is in online shopping.” (October 13, 2025)
“The superpower that an art museum has is when something goes up on the wall, it’s considered good. We set the canon.” (Adam Levine, 2022) “Digital art is part of the canon we’re building.” (Adam Levine, 2025)
Over the past five years, Adam Levine raised the museum’s operating budget to 23 million from 15 million, sold a Cezanne, Renoir and Matisse for $60 million suddenly in 2022, promised that other Impressionist paintings would remain on view, (as he pulled their only other Cezanne painting from the Art Institute of Chicago’s Cezanne retrospective) then a year later removed the remaining Impressionist thru 20th Century paintings on the walls and shipped them away. Where are they?
The irony, bailing out a small college in Alabama when they let their own Toledo Museum of Art School of Design go to shit.
A question for the turkeys: Why flush $5 million dollars down the toilet to buy a painting by an unknown artist to bail out an ultra-small southern college, (November 1, 2025) when you can put that towards the purchase of an 18-carat solid gold toilet by a world-renown artist, Maurizio Cattelan, that would look great in your over-the-top complete remodeling of our once-outstanding art museum before Adam Levine tore it to pieces? On auction November 18 at Sotheby’s. Is it time for a new director, like they just did at the Philadelphia Museum of Art? (November 4, 2025) 
We used to like our art museum. It used to be great.