Well, that was fast. <\/p>\n
Days after the Baltimore Museum of Art sold out of tickets for Amy Sherald\u2019s \u201cAmerican Sublime\u201d exhibit, the museum announced it is selling roughly 5,400 more tickets \u201cdue to unprecedented demand.\u201d<\/p>\n
BMA members get the first shot at the extra tickets, which went on sale exclusively to them for 24 hours starting at 5 p.m. Wednesday. Tickets for the general public, pending availability, will go on sale 5 p.m. Thursday on the BMA\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n The additional tickets are for timed-entry viewings starting on Saturday through the rest of the exhibition, which ends April 5, and will be for regular BMA operating hours. BMA members will also receive new access to \u201cAmerican Sublime\u201d on March 14 and March 21 from 9-10 a.m., an hour earlier than when the museum is open to the public.<\/p>\n \u201cAmerican Sublime\u201d tickets initially sold out on Monday<\/a>, the museum said. <\/p>\n The exhibit, which opened Nov. 2 in Baltimore, immediately thrust the BMA into the national spotlight. <\/p>\n Sherald, a Maryland Institute College of Art alum, made headlines in July after pulling \u201cAmerican Sublime\u201d from its scheduled run at the Smithsonian\u2019s National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. She cited censorship concerns related to \u201cTrans Forming Liberty,\u201d her portrait of a trans model dressed as the Statue of Liberty that later became a cover of The New Yorker<\/a>.<\/p>\n Sherald, 52, then relocated the exhibit from Washington to Baltimore to much anticipation.<\/p>\n So far, 72,612 patrons have attended or reserved tickets for the record-breaking exhibition, a collection of nearly 40 colorful paintings of Black life and portraiture by one of America\u2019s most heralded living artists. Sherald created a number of the paintings while living in Baltimore between 2001 and 2018.<\/p>\n \u201cAmerican Sublime\u201d will conclude its national tour at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta from May 15 to Sept. 27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Well, that was fast. Days after the Baltimore Museum of Art sold out of tickets for Amy Sherald\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88],"class_list":["post-491211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}