{"id":202306,"date":"2025-09-05T12:37:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T12:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/202306\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T12:37:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T12:37:14","slug":"baltimore-museum-of-art-to-host-amy-sherald-show-after-artists-smithsonian-withdrawal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/202306\/","title":{"rendered":"Baltimore Museum of Art to Host Amy Sherald Show After Artist\u2019s Smithsonian Withdrawal\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over a month after painter Amy Sherald withdrew her exhibition<\/a> from the National Portrait Gallery (NPG), citing concerns over possible censorship, the artist has found a new home for the next stop of her touring exhibition.<\/p>\n

American Sublime<\/a>, which was on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art until last month, will open at the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) on November 3 in place of its scheduled stop at the NPG. The Baltimore institution announced its plans to show Sherald\u2019s work today, September 4, and said the exhibition would run until April 5, 2026.<\/p>\n

The museum said in a press release that it had already planned to honor Sherald, who attended the local Maryland Institute College of Art, in November with the BMA\u2019s \u201cArtist Who Inspires\u201d award for her artistic accomplishments, including her portrait of former First Lady Michelle Obama.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmy\u2019s story is also deeply intertwined with Baltimore,\u201d BMA Director Asma Naeem said in a statement shared with Hyperallergic. \u201cBeyond her education and time lived in our beloved city, Baltimore is rooted in her subjects, on her canvases, and in her titles.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\tSherald\u2019s \u201cBreonna Taylor\u201d (2020) (photo Joseph Hyde, courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth)<\/p>\n

Sherald rescinded her exhibition from the NPG, which is part of the Smithsonian network of museums, after she said she learned the institution wanted her to replace a painting depicting the Statue of Liberty as a trans woman<\/a> with a video including commentary on transgender issues. The Smithsonian Institution has said<\/a> that it did not want to replace the painting, but rather add the video as a piece of context.<\/p>\n

Among the paintings in Sherald\u2019s American Sublime to be shown at the BMA this fall is the portrait \u201cMiss Everything (Unsuppressed Deliverance)\u201d (2013), which won the Smithsonian\u2019s Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition in 2016. Sherald became the first African-American person and the first woman <\/strong>to win the prestigious prize, which includes a commission from the National Portrait Gallery. Her best-known work, a portrait of Former First Lady Michelle Obama, will also appear in the show alongside a tribute to Breonna Taylor and the embattled painting \u201cTrans Forming Liberty\u201d (2024), among others.<\/p>\n

Sherald declined to comment on the BMA show.<\/p>\n

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\t\tSherald\u2019s \u201cEcclesia (The Meeting of Inheritance and Horizons)\u201d (2024) (photo Kelvin Bulluck, courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth)<\/p>\n

Sherald detailed her decision<\/a> to withdraw her exhibition in an opinion piece last week, claiming that \u201cinstitutional fear shaped by a broader climate of political hostility toward trans lives\u201d contributed to the Smithsonian\u2019s proposal to modify the display of her painting. She condemned the Trump administration\u2019s broader attempts<\/a> to control content in the Smithsonian.<\/p>\n

\u201cPresenting American Sublime at the BMA is a celebration of our creative community and a joyful reunion with those shaped by Amy\u2019s extraordinary power to connect,\u201d Naeem said in the museum\u2019s statement. \u201cWe\u2019re thrilled to share her transformational work with our visitors.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over a month after painter Amy Sherald withdrew her exhibition from the National Portrait Gallery (NPG), citing concerns…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":202307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[60204,648,1032,111784,1033,171,60205,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-202306","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-amy-sherald","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-baltimore-museum-of-art","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-national-portrait-gallery","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115151729153642919","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}