Author: pennygentieu
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Urgent Follow-Up: Reckless Disposition of TMA’s Core Art Collection
Regarding the much-loved highlights of Toledo Museum of Art’s internationally-renowned collection being sent overseas The objection is not that TMA is lending one or two paintings, the objection is that 57 is a huge number of beloved masterpieces to be taking away from public view and sending to the other side of the world — […]
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The Crumbling of the Cloisters
What’s happening to the museum? Core collection getting sent off to New Zealand while slated for being in a show at the Glass Pavilion and the Cloisters getting dismantled — a total shock and all at once! On January 30, 2025 the museum announced on Facebook that it would be closing the Cloisters on February […]
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The Museum of Continuities: How a politically charged museum is doomed to fail
they will tell you exactly how to think. They will tell us what art we can make. They will make their own art. It’s a new year with lots of action at the Toledo Museum of Art. They are putting into motion the changes they deem necessary due to the colonial and racial history of […]
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Behold, The Dismantling of The Toledo Museum of Art
Why don’t they just build their own museum? “Our visitors will see their histories on display,” so says the new director Adam Levine, who is from New York, as he and the former director John Stanley, also of New York, have their way with Toledo’s once and future Toledo Museum of Art. The museum conducted surveys of […]
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This Facebook post went viral before it was banned
I have a quiet little Facebook page titled “Toledo Now.” Lately I’ve been posting about the doings of the Toledo art museum. My posts don’t go around that much, but I noticed a lot of activity on this post that I put up on November 16, going around many thousands of times! I saw that […]
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The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition of 2024
Pondering prospects of the Toledo Area Artists Exhibition that was shamefully taken away from local artists in 2014 The irony is striking: over the past three years, the Toledo Museum of Art has introduced layers of new bureaucracy—hiring a “chief people officer,” a “belonging and community engagement” czar, and even establishing a “branding” department. Add […]
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Toledo’s Unmuseum
New at TMA: The Glass Pavilion as Dumping Ground Toledo Museum of Art’s outstanding collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings have been moved to a back room gallery at the Glass Pavilion. The Glass Pavilion, with its curved glass walls was built in 2006 to display the museum’s glass collection. But since then, the leadership […]
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TMA’s disgraceful national review
The TMA collection is splendid, with encyclopedic range and surprising depth. But, sadly, the museum seems intent on making race and grievance, not art, the center of visitors’ experience there. | By Brian T. Allen https://t.co/VYwIT2dZCu — National Review (@NRO) August 3, 2023 Wow! Read this: Toledo Museum: A Treasure Trove of the Best – […]
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Who bought our Cezanne, The Glade?
It was the gift of Edward Drummond Libbey. A one-year anniversary look-back. Edward Drummond Libbey and Florence Scott Libbey gave their money to fund and start the Toledo Museum of Art, and to keep it going with stipulations made in their wills and trusts. The museum sold paintings that the Libbey Endowment paid for and […]
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Museum shrinking away from founders
The Toledo 2-Mile Radius Museum of Art It’s Edward Drummond Libbey’s birthday today – he was born on April 17, 1854. Some people care – like the alumni of the high school named after Mr. Libbey that was torn down in 2012 and never replaced, and the runners of the “Florence Scott Libbey 419 Race” […]