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SHARE A US museum has apologised for a job listing seeking a new director who would maintain the museum’s “traditional, core, white art audience". The wording was a bullet point in a six-page job description that also said the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields was working to attract a more diverse audience. However, museum officials removed the word “white” at the weekend following outrage, including backlash from guest curators of an exhibit on a Black Lives Matter mural in Indianapolis. The museum’s director and chief executive, Charles Venable, said the decision to use “...

The Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields The Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields has apologised for and amended a job listing it posted last month saying that it was seeking a director who would seek to maintain its “traditional, core, white art audience” as well as attract a more diverse one. The wording has been changed to remove the word “white” amid a backlash from critics including guest curators for a planned exhibition at the museum titled Drip: Indy’s #BlackLivesMatter Street Mural. The two curators, Malina Simone Jeffers and Alan Bacon, who oversee ...

The Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields has apologized for a job listing seeking a new director who would maintain the museum’s “traditional, core,...

The Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields has apologized for a job listing seeking a new director who would maintain the museum’s “traditional, core,...

Indianapolis Museum of Art apologises for insensitive job posting