The Museum of Fine Arts has launched an aggressive campaign to acquire works by contemporary artists.
They have identified works from a list of 24 artists and plan to have finalized the acquisitions by as early as October of this year.
“We wanted to add artists to the collection that we all felt really strongly about,” says Reto Thüring, Beal Family Chair of the Department of Contemporary Art at the museum.
Thüring says about two-thirdsof the acquisitions list are local Boston artists, and many of them are black, including Stephen Hamilton, Ekua Holmes, Lavaughan Jenkins and Anthony Young.
Anthony Young, one of the artists whose work is slated for acquisition, took over the Instagram stories on Friday, June 12 to discuss his intimate portraits and exploration of police brutality and black manhood.
