Tag: Toledo Federation of Art Societies
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Getting rid of our American art
Stewardship is the promise that what one generation builds, the next will care for and carry forward. Should the Museum be getting rid of classic American paintings from their historic collection of American art? Does the new director have to get rid of the Museum’s collection of American paintings, so well-curated and scholarly researched that […]
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Adam Levine’s Toledo Museum of Art
An assessment of the offerings at Adam Levine’s Toledo Museum of Art two years into the five-year plan In 2021, Adam Levine, the new director of the Toledo Museum of Art, announced that he was increasing the museum’s annual budget by $2 million while reducing the draw from the Libbey Endowment. The rules of the […]
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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 […]
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Toledo Museum of Art: Repair the Damage
Toledo Museum of Art, repair the damage you have done to the community of artists. In 2010, perhaps when the museum was between directors, the acting director and Amy Gilman of the museum made a proposal to the Federation, that they would get great jurors with their museum connections and make Toledo artists famous. Maybe […]