Former MCA curator creates Museum Exchange, first digital platform for art donations

The program connects museums to art donors across the country with a focus on lifting up women artists and artists of color.

Nick Cave MCA
The Museum of Contemporary Art show is Cave's first career retrospective. Manuel Martinez / WBEZ
Nick Cave MCA
The Museum of Contemporary Art show is Cave's first career retrospective. Manuel Martinez / WBEZ

Former MCA curator creates Museum Exchange, first digital platform for art donations

The program connects museums to art donors across the country with a focus on lifting up women artists and artists of color.

WBEZ brings you fact-based news and information. Sign up for our newsletters to stay up to date on the stories that matter.

Michael Darling left the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago to help found Museum Exchange, a platform that matches museums and donors across the country as a way of “decolonizing” art and “spreading the wealth.”

Reset hears more about how Museum Exchange works and how museums, donors and artists can get involved.

GUEST: Michael Darling, co-founder of Museum Exchange