John Waters Gifts Collection to Baltimore Museum of Art, Future Home of the John Waters Restrooms - via ARTFORUM
about 19 months ago (10/05/2022)
City-proud cultural polymath John Waters has bequeathed 375 artworks and objects from his fine-art collection to the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA), the institution announced yesterday. In exchange, and at Waters’s request, the BMA will name its east lobby bathrooms in his honor; additionally, the domed room in the European art galleries will henceforth be known as the John Waters Rotunda. The self-described “Pope of Trash,” whose work encompasses film, writing, acting, sculpture, and photography, among other mediums, has promised the works to the BMA, where he was the subject of a major 2018