Museum security officers, the people who probably spend the most time looking at art,
will soon be organizing an exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) as guest curators.
The show "Guarding the Art," due to open in March 2022, will bring together a selection of works that resonate with each of the 17 participating officers, and offer "different perspectives from within the museum hierarchy," said the curator and art historian Lowery Stokes Sims, who helped develop the project.
"The security officers are guarding the art, interacting with the public and seeing reactions from visitors that most museum staff don't have access to from our offices," Stokes Sims said. "I was struck and moved by the extraordinarily personal, cogent arguments that each officer made for their selection, which was so different from the intellectual and filtered approach that a trained curator would take."
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