Amy Sherald Exhibition Lands at Baltimore Museum of Art After Artist Canceled Presentation at Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery Over Censorship Concerns
Amy Sherald. | Photo by Kelvin Bulluck, Courtesy Baltimore Museum of Art THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE EXHIBITION of Amy Sherald will open at the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) in November. Announced today, the news comes after the artist canceled the presentation of “Amy Sherald: American Sublime” at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C....
Amy Sherald Withdrew ‘American Sublime’ Exhibition From Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Citing ‘Culture of Censorship’
In the trailer introducing “Amy Sherald: American Sublime” at the Whitney Museum of American Art, exhibition curator Rujeko Hockley said, “Hopefully in walking through the exhibition and seeing the paintings… you might have that feeling of being kind of overwhelmed, positively, by the vastness, the breadth, the range of the American people.” | Video by...
