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The arduous task of finding suitable real estate thus fell to Crowninshield and Goodyear, who searched several possibilities before settling on six rooms on the twelfth floor of the Heckscher Building, at 730 Fifth Avenue, a location that Sullivan, through a former student of hers, helped them root out.
At 7:30 in the morning on Wednesday (21 August), in a parking lot just a couple miles west of the 2024 Democratic National Convention’s (DNC) main venue in Chicago, the Los Angeles-based artist Autumn Breon was restocking her hot pink Care Machine (2023) with tampons and little packages of lubricant.
The MFA has organised and hosted many major exhibitions during Teitelbaum’s time there—including shows devoted to Ansel Adams, Hokusai, John Singer Sargent, Claude Monet and Jean-Michel Basquiat—though none was as closely watched as a travelling Philip Guston retrospective that was controversially postponed due to concerns about the artist’s depictions of Ku Klux Klan members.