7/4/2023 0 Comments The john waters collection8 (2016) Photo: Jen Berg/John Waters Studio It’s only fitting that the fruits of my 60-year search for new art that could startle, antagonize, and infuriate even me, ends up where it all began-in my hometown museum.” “After taking it home and hanging it on my bedroom wall at my parents’ house, I realized from the hostile reaction of my neighborhood playmates that art could provoke, shock, and cause trouble. “The first art I ever bought was a two-dollar Miró poster at The Baltimore Museum of Art gift shop back in the 50s when I was a child,” Waters says in a statement. To honour his generosity, the museum will rename a rotunda in its European art galleries after the film-maker-as well as a pair of restrooms in the East Lobby, “per his request”, the institution notes. The gift includes photographs and works on paper by artists such as Diane Arbus, Nan Goldin, Lee Lozano, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol, and Christopher Wool, as well as 90 works by Waters himself, making the museum the largest archive of his art. Today, the director of Pink Flamingos and Hairspray cemented his artistic legacy there by donating around 375 works from his fine art collection to the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA). John Waters has long made his love of Baltimore known, setting many of his cult classic films in his native city.
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