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
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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 within the museum hierarchy, said the curator and art historian Lowery Stokes Sims, who helped develop the project.