Breonna Taylor show points art museums to a faster track
Amy Sherald (b. 1973), Breonna Taylor, 2020. Oil on linen 137.2 x 109.2 cm / 54 x 43 inches. © Amy Sherald. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Joseph Hyde.
by Holland Cotter
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- People talk a lot about getting back to pre-COVID normal. But our traditional art museums can forget about that. After a year of intense racial-justice reckoning, a paralyzing pandemic and crippling economic shortfalls, aging hidebound institutions are scrambling just to stay afloat. And the only way for them to do so is to change. Strategies for forward motion are needed. One is in play here at the Speed Art Museum, in the form of a quietly passionate show called Promise, Witness, Remembrance, which might, with profit, be studied by other institutions in survivalist mode.
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Breonna Taylor Show Points Art Museums to a Faster Track
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