Tag: 2-mile radius
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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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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” […]
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A Toledo picture
A Toledo picture…. Yesterday and today What is a Toledo picture, exactly? The museum’s first curator of European art, William Hutton called a “Toledo picture” a painting worthy of the Toledo Museum of Art, a museum that owns what is said to be the very best Peter Paul Rubens in the country. A Toledo picture […]
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Museum paints a divisive narrative
Here’s what Toledo Museum’s Belonging and Community Engagement Director Rhonda Sewell said, in regard to the museum’s politically motivated DEAI plan, “What it’s saying is that now we are not only going to look at maybe one ethnicity or one race or one region for art history’s sake in our collection.” The new museum administrators […]
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The remote control of our museum culture
Culture and Community by Government Remote Control I am interested in The Toledo Museum of Art’s use of the 57 million dollar profit from the three recently deaccessioned French Impressionist/early modern paintings which they sold to raise money for the purchase of “diverse art.” The Toledo Museum of Art recently hired a Consulting Curator, Lanisa […]