The museum will also establish a $7 million capital campaign for building improvements and has received a $500,000 bequest.
The action draws on an ongoing series focusing on queer and trans people of color by artist Gabriel Garcia Román.
"Almost half a billion dollars is spent on a painting," the artist said, of the Leonardo sale last year. "How could those funds have been used to do good in the world?"
The gift, from philanthropist and photographer Michael Becker, is the largest in the museum's history.
In July, El Museo del Barrio, a museum in upper Manhattan devoted to exhibiting and collecting Latinx and Latin American art, issued a statement in response to the family separation crisis at the…
The Swiss artist's gallery, Hauser & Wirth, said that he wants the walls "to stand as evidence of bigotry and fear in American culture."
The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art in New York announced today that Gonzalo Casals will be the next director of the institution. He will begin in his post on March 6. The museum, which…
