At Baltimore Museum of Art, Christopher Bedford Creates a New Kind of Institution

The following is one of several extended looks into figures and institutions selected for “The Deciders,” a list of art-world figures pointing the way forward developed by ARTnews and special guest editor Kasseem “Swizz Beatz” Dean. See the full list in the Winter 2020 issue of the magazine and online here.
Since becoming director of the Baltimore Museum of Art in 2016, Christopher Bedford has set a brutal pace, pursuing what he termed “a rapid, very aggressive, may