Artist Amy Sherald’s exhibit at the Baltimore Museum of Art is sold out again. The BMA posted on its website on Saturday that “Tickets for Amy Sherald: American Sublime are sold out.” Museum officials first disclosed early last week that the blockbuster exhibit was sold out through the end of its run on April 5. Then on Wednesday officials announced that they were adding roughly 5,400 tickets so more people could see the show. They said they were able to add tickets by opening the exhibit to members one hour early on two Saturdays this month, March 14 and 21, and by increasing the capacity per half hour at other times. The additional timed-entry tickets went on sale to BMA members on Wednesday at 5 p.m. and sales were opened to the general public on Thursday at 5 p.m., with a limit of four tickets per purchase. Within 48 hours, the BMA website reported that all of the additional tickets were gone. According to the BMA, 72,612 people have attended the show or reserved tickets for it as of last Wednesday, a museum record. Before American Sublime, the BMA exhibit that drew the highest attendance since 2000 was the Matisse/Diebenkorn show, which had about 45,700 visitors in 2016 and 2017. Last week, Time Magazine named Sherald one of its 16 Women of the Year for 2026, and its article mentioned the American Sublime exhibit and how it came to be at the BMA when it wasn’t originally scheduled to appear in Baltimore. A BMA representative said museum officials are exploring other ways to add more tickets but their options are limited. One of the chief concerns is security: Unlike a restaurant or café, a museum can’t stay open longer without administrators making sure there are enough guards on duty to protect its collection when people are in the building. According to a recent report reviewed by Baltimore’s Board of Estimates, the top works of art at the BMA have a combined appraised value of hundreds of millions of dollars. In 2020, board members were told that just three major works — by Andy Warhol, Clyfford Still and Brice Marden — had a combined estimated value of $65 million. The highest price that a painting by Amy Sherald has sold for at auction is $4.265 million for her 2015 painting, The Bathers, which is in the American Sublime exhibit. It sold at Phillips New York in December of 2020, and the winning bid was more than 20 times the high estimate of $200,000. ...read more read less