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While there is plenty of news from the local arts community this week to warm the spirit, local theater lovers are mourning the planned demise of an anchor institution.
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
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An inspired exhibition celebrates the insights of museum's security officers.
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'Guarding the Art' includes some two dozen artworks selected by guest curators whose usual job is to watch over the galleries at the Baltimore Museum of Art.