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IN 1968, thirteen Black security officers and gallery attendants at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art hosted a Black Culture Festival on museum grounds. As a successful piece of community outreach, the event, which coincided with the exhibition “The Sculpture of Black Africa,” was celebrated, earning lead organizer Sergeant William Knight and head of security Sidney Slade commendations from the Los Angeles County board of supervisors. In art historian Bridget R. Cooks’s telling, this cultural intervention led directly to the museum’s hiring David Driskell to guest-curate the major e...

Guarding the Art will feature works from the BMA’s collection, across eras, genres, cultures, and mediums, selected by guest curators from the BMA’s Security department. As guest curators, the officers

arts Published 15th July 2021 At this museum exhibition, the security guards are the curators Written by Gabriella Angeleti This article was originally published by The Art Newspaper, an editorial partner of CNN Style. Museum security officers, the people who probably spend the most time looking at art, will soon be organizing an exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) as guest curators. The show "Guarding the Art," due to open in March 2022, will bring together a selection of works that resonate with each of the 17 participating officers, and offer "different perspectives from withi...

17 Security Guards at The Baltimore Museum of Art Will Guest Curate An Exhibition BALTIMORE, Maryland Subject Line Please provide verification code Email is invalid Max Beckmann, Still Life with Large Shell (1939) Courtesy Baltimore Museum of Art. Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. Guarding the Art, an exhibition curated entirely by 17 members of the museum’s security team. The exhibition will draw from works of art in the BMA’s collection, with each work selected by one of the participating officers. As guest curators, the officers will be collaborating ...

harder to answer questions like this. there were rumors going around about the potential insolvency of one or more french banks who own a lot of debt of europe's periphery, greece, spain, italy ireland or portugal. there's that concern. a lot of these frnch banks bought a lot of our toxic assets earlier in the decade. i suspect they haven't marked those down fully either. all the rumors are denied. it led to this sell off this morning that should have been greeted with some follow through after the big rally yesterday on word that the fed is going to hold rates low for at least two m...