agnes gund professes love for cle museum of art

In a Huffington Post piece titled “About a Museum,” Agnes Gund, President Emerita and Chairman, International Council of The Museum of Modern Art, writes of her childhood growing up learning to appreciate the arts at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

“That museum -- inspired by a band of prominent citizens, designed by local architects on donated land -- opened in 1916 as an achievement and adornment of its city. It was Cleveland through and through, not least in the motto it proclaimed for itself: "For the benefit of all people, forever."

The post continues into warm tribute to a place that has become a part of Gund herself.  It is a very intimate account of the importance the museum has played throughout her life.

Enjoy her full account here.