#GAReads | Baltimore Museum of Art will only acquire works from women next year: 'You have to do something radical'

Amy Sherald’s painting “First Lady Michelle Obama”. Photo credit: Victoria Pickering [CC BY-NC-ND 2.0], via Flickr.

“Baltimore Museum of Art will only acquire works from women next year: 'You have to do something radical'“:

The Baltimore Museum of Art will celebrate 2020 by adopting a daring new policy designed to reverse the art world’s historic marginalization of female artists.

Museum director Christopher Bedford said Thursday that every artwork the BMA obtains for its permanent collection next year — every painting, every sculpture, every ceramic figurine, whether through a purchase or donation — will have been created by a woman.

“You don’t just purchase one painting by a female artist of color and hang it on the wall next to a painting by Mark Rothko. To rectify centuries of imbalance, you have to do something radical.”

Read Mary Carole McCauley’s full article at the Baltimore Sun here…