On Townsend’s A Tale of Today: Yinka Shonibare CBE
“The exhibition [while not a] Shonibare retrospective…is a daring, even exciting little exhibition, a near-perfect merger of setting and sets.”
— Steve Johnson, The Chicago Tribune, March 13, 2019
“Richard P. Townsend is a man of many abilities…curat[ing] shows on subjects ranging from Caravaggio to Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros...”
— Modern Luxury Men’s Book Chicago, Fall 2018
On Townsend’s Sculpture in the Age of Donatello: “Hard to believe but true: An exhibition that includes …major works…by the early Renaissance sculptor Donatello has come to New York, and it’s not at the Metropolitan Museum of Art or the Frick Collection. It’s at the Museum of Biblical Art…and it’s a beautiful, soul-stirring exhibition.”
— Ken Johnson, The New York Times, February 19, 2015