The Times. Arts
Dan Grossman
When I first saw the wording for the job description, I thought back to the time when the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields seemed to be making progress towards creating a truly 21st-century museum.Â
It was July 2019. Kelli Morgan, the museumâs new associate curator, was taking me on a tour of the American galleries. She had just completed a partial rotation of artwork in the galleries. Her most striking choice was to place the painting âKnowledge of the Past is Key to the Future, St. Sebastian,â a work completed in 1986 by prominent African American artist Robert H. Colescott, among artworks from the Gilded Age.