Amid the wave of protests in 2020, the Denver Art Museum comprehensively removed all references to Christopher Columbus from its collections, including renaming the “Pre-Columbian Art” department “Art of the Ancient Americas” and an overhaul of its Latin American exhibition program. The daughter of John Paul Getty, Jr. has come out in support of the protesters whoto raise awareness of climate emergency.
“As the planet burns, we are approaching a time when all we’ll have left are pictures and paintings of our beloved Earth, and urban art galleries may be the final resting place for Earth’s sunflowers,” Getty writes. In a sign of how extreme the energy crisis has gotten for British museums, the Baltic Center for Contemporary Art is exploring how to generate its own energy as it faces the prospect of its fuel bill tripling to more than £1 million per year.