Toledo Museum moved famous Impressionist paintings across the street
no easy way for a person in a wheelchair to see them
no easy way for anyone to see them
why?
Because the museum has turned its back on the majority of the community by selling off some of the masterpieces painted by white artists and becoming a social club for the hyper-local 2-mile radius black community. The museum gets big grants for it. They want to inspire other museums across the country, instead of inspiring the larger Toledo community, which is 10 times greater and much more diverse than the 2-mile radius of their myopic racist vision. We used to go to this museum to be elevated, but now, if you are white, this museum aims to teach you a lesson — and it’s not in an art class, either, since they have greatly reduced the Toledo Museum of Art School of Design (now sending teachers out to teach art classes inside the walls of federal housing projects within the 2-mile radius.) Art has become a mere political decoration. Best that they cash in their art while collectors still want it. What would the founders, Edward Drummond Libbey and Florence Scott Libbey feel about the museum’s new direction? Is it a breach of fiduciary duty to the Libbey trusts and to the citizens of Toledo? Will the Charitable Law Section of the Ohio Attorney General’s office, that initiated an investigation of the museum in April 2023, do anything about it?