Toledo’s Art
The Toledo Museum of Art had four directors in the first 75 years, who did really good things. But then there have been seven directors in the last 50 years, lately not so good.
The new director, Adam Levine, has nothing to do with art and everything to do with money. Toledo’s once-vibrant diverse artist community that centered itself around the museum for nearly 100 years? Most of those artists have had to step aside as they are no longer wanted. The once-great art museum has sold people out. They are ripping through the museum, stripping the walls of great art, selling it or shipping it out of the country, turning the museum into something it was never meant to be, under the guise of a stupid DEI mandate:
“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, 11th Director of The Toledo Museum of Art
as Toledo sleeps
Nobody cares about preserving the museum or the art for future generations, least of all the people who are entrusted to care.
Open letter to Sara Jane DeHoff, Chair of the Board of the Toledo Museum of Art