Wer hat in diesem Jahr die Kunst besonders geprägt? Über wen wird geredet? Und wer ermöglicht eigentlich Kunst? Die Liste der 100 einflussreichsten Menschen in der Kunstwelt gibt einen Überblick.

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Artist Amy Sherald decided to keep her exhibition "American Sublime" from being installed at the Smithsonian after the gallery told her it had concerns about the painting Trans Forming Liberty, which presents the Statue of Liberty as a Black trans woman. She writes for MSNBC about the importance of museums to the past and present. "Philippe de Montebello, an art curator who previously directed the Metropolitan Museum of Art for 31 years, once called museums 'the memory of mankind.' If that is true, then to manipulate museums is to manipulate who we believe we are. Control the memory and you control the future," Sherald writes. "Museums are not stages for loyalty. They are civic laboratories. They are places where we wrestle with contradictions, encounter the unfamiliar and widen our circle of empathy. But only if they remain free."

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#Art #Galleries #Museums #History @histodon #AmySherald #Smithsonian

Sherald told the New Yorker that Trans Forming Liberty “challenges who we allow to embody our national symbols—and who we erase.” She added, “It demands a fuller vision of freedom, one that includes the dignity of all bodies, all identities. Liberty isn’t fixed. She transforms, and so must we. This portrait is a confrontation with that truth.”

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/amy-sherald-trans-forming-liberty-the-new-yorker-cover-1234748747/

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“Trans Forming Liberty”
by #AmySherald

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Artist Amy Sherald has canceled her Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery show, "American Sublime," amid discussions of removing a painting that shows a trans woman dressed as the Statue of Liberty. Sherald told The New York Times that the Smithsonian planned to replace the work with a video of people reacting to the painting. "The video would have opened up for debate the value of trans visibility," she said. A spokeswoman for the Smithsonian told @npr that the video was to be added to the show, not to replace the painting. Sherald, who is best known for her painting of Michelle Obama, would have been the first contemporary Black artist to receive a solo exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery.

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Art show by #AmySherald is up at NYC's Whitney Museum thru August 10

"Featuring about 50 works, the exhibition, “Amy Sherald: American Sublime” is the largest, most comprehensive presentation of the artist’s work to date. The show was organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, where it first opened last year before moving to the Whitney Museum, where it is currently on view through Aug. 10. It was set to open at the Portrait Gallery [in D.C.] on Sept. 19."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/arts/design/amy-sherald-smithsonian-censorship.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Y08.pLPg.IZz0dLHjftAu&smid=url-share

Artist #AmySherald cancels Smithsonian show over censorship

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/jul/24/amy-sherald-cancels-smithsonian-show

> Portraitist withdrew her National Portrait Gallery show over reports that a transgender Statue of Liberty painting could offend Trump

Tonight: I ♥️ NYC

Free evening set from guitar master Miles Okazaki playing Thelonious Monk on the terrace at the Whitney Museum while the July sun sets over the Hudson behind him. Gorgeous night. This is what summer in the city is all about.

And the added bonus of checking out some great art after. Loved the Amy Sherald portraits.

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