Why John Waters Is Giving It All Away to the Baltimore Museum of Art

The director John Waters has been collecting contemporary art for decades, and he’s built a trove full of some pretty idiosyncratic works. Take, for instance, Karin Sander’s Gebrauchsbild (2010). The artist did nothing to the canvas. She’s never been on the same continent as the canvas. She just told her dealer, Friedrich Petzel, to leave it in the backyard of his Hamptons house for a summer. Eventually, the canvas grew some green-black mold, and that’s the work. Petzel was worried the mold would poison him, so he refused to bring it inside his house. Waters bought it immediately. “(A) it’s… Read Full Article