Baryn Futa and His Late Blooming Love of Art

Baryn Futa didn’t always have such a deep appreciation for the arts. In fact, he came to his appreciation rather late in life, after retirement, when he began working with the Denver Art Museum. Something sparked inside him at that point, and he used his time at the DAM to cultivate his love of the arts and art history by attending art fairs and museum exhibitions and anything else he could find.

Nearly everyone in the world has at least a moderate appreciation for art on some level, even if most people are not in a position to support art to the extent necessary. That is one reason that it may seems as if Baryn Futa is trying to pick up the slack. He knows he is limited by various factors, but he is attempting to take on as much of the responsibility for art appreciation as possible.

Baryn Futa firmly believes that art is a great cause that benefits all of society. Sure, it’s also as a profitable and useful investment, but if his collection preserves art for the future, it’s a good thing. Art is a necessary and critical element of any culture – the element that often defines it – and that makes it important enough to preserve for future generations. The art of the past puts us in touch with those who came before us and we owe it to future generations to preserve as much art as possible for them. Baryn Futa also attended numerous arts classes and established his own art collection, which has grown over the years and is now very impressive. Baryn now holds memberships in many prominent art museums with impressive collections of their own, including the Guggenheim, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The Jewish Museum. Whenever he can, he loans pieces from his own collection to museums, so that more people can appreciate art as he does.