✊🏾🎨📰#ArtIsAWeapon "With New Urgency, Museums Cultivate Curators of Color" by @rpogrebin for @nytimes: https://nyti.ms/2M7l5bU. ________________ 📷 of #curators (from left) @rjkhckly, @marcelacguerrero, #AdrienneEdwards, @christopherylew by 📸 @lovebryan. ________________ Excerpts: "For decades the country’s mainstream art museums have excluded people of color — from their top leadership to the curators who create shows to the artists they display on their walls. Now, eager to attract a broader cross-section of visitors at a time when the country’s demographics are changing — and, in New York, facing an ultimatum linking city funding to inclusion plans — a growing number of museums are addressing diversity with new urgency." ________________ “Museums can’t be excellent if their staffs are not diverse.” - @fordfoundation President Darren Walker. ________________ “The whitest job in the entire cultural community in New York is curator...That's changing." - NYC's commissioner of cultural affairs Tom Finkelpearl. ________________ Read full story: https://nyti.ms/2M7l5bU #ArtsInclusivity #BlackCurators #CuratorsOfColor #NYTimes #RobinPogrebin #ArtsInstitutions #museums #DiversifyTheArts #DecolonizeThisPlace #ArtsAdministrators #BlackGirlArtGeeks🤓 #TraScapades #ArtIsAWeapon
