John Oliver-Curated Art Exhibit Set To Open At American Visionary Art Museum This Week

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — John Oliver’s “illustrious exhibit” of creation is acceptable to unfastened astatine the American Visionary Art Museum this week.

Works selected by the “Last Week Tonight” big see a coating of tv big Wendy Williams eating a lamb chop, a coating of ties, and what Oliver describes arsenic “a survey of rat friendship.” Let’s conscionable accidental it’s an intimate study.

At the tallness of the pandemic past year, arsenic museums crossed the region were forced to adjacent owed to nationalist wellness protocols, Oliver launched a contest for museums to big the “Last Week Tonight’s Gallery for Cultural Enrichment” arsenic the amusement is called.

In summation to the accidental to show these masterworks, the amusement offered a $10,000 donation to the winning museums, positive an further $10,000 donation to a section nutrient bank.

Baltimore’s American Visionary Art Museum, location to a postulation of works from outsider and self-taught artists, was 1 of 5 institutions selected successful August.

“We were thrilled–crying with joyousness actually–to beryllium selected by Mr. Oliver, arsenic we truthful respect his acquisition for speaking information to powerfulness done wit – an creation adjacent to hearts!” said AVAM Founding Director and Primary Curator Rebecca Hoffberger. “We were besides profoundly moved that Mr. Oliver recognized and cared astir some the unsocial hardships that the COVID pandemic placed connected museums and their forced nationalist closures and his sensitivity to springiness a matching assistance of $10,000 to each winner’s section Food Bank – successful our case, we designated the Maryland Food Bank.”

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The grounds volition beryllium connected show from Nov. 3 done Nov. 21.