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Is the Big Apple turning on its rich residents? There is a push on to make the wealthy pay more tax and some are now fleeing New York about an hour ago   On a recent morning, Eric Adams, the Brooklyn borough president and New York City mayoral hopeful, was providing comfort to one of the city’s beleaguered communities. “You are part of New York,” Adams reassured them. “And so if people have not stated it, thank you for being here, and please remain here!” He was talking to the rich. It might seem odd that they would need a rhetorical pat on the back in a metropolis that typically ...

The anonymous feminist artists are renewing their calls for MoMA to oust Black form its board. February 2, 2021 Leon Black speaks onstage at the Museum Of Modern Art Film Benefit on November 19, 2018, in New York City. Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Museum of Modern Art. The Guerrilla Girls are once again calling on New York’s Museum of Modern Art to remove chairman Leon Black from its board due to his longstanding ties to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The anonymous feminist art collective also canceled their 2018 book deal with Phaidon, an art publishing house o...

Alex Kitnick on the discontent with museums Caravaggio,  The Inspiration of Saint Matthew, 1602, oil on canvas, 9' 8 1/2" x 6' 2 1/2". “WHEN DISCONTENT WITH MUSEUMS is strong enough to provoke the attempt to exhibit paintings in their original surroundings or in ones similar, in baroque or rococo castles, for instance, the result is even more distressing than when the works are wrenched from their original surroundings and then brought together.” This is Theodor Adorno in his great essay “Valéry Proust Museum,” first published in German in 1...

Struggling Museums Are Increasingly Relying on the Generosity of Artists to Convince Private Donors to Bail Them Out As donors take their foot off the gas of arts giving, artists have been called in to reenergize them. It's a lot of pressure. December 14, 2020 Artist Rashid Johnson, a frequent donor to museum fundraisers, at his Brooklyn studio on June 18, 2019. (Photo by Chris Sorensen for The Washington Post via Getty Images) Museums rely on artists to create compelling exhibitions, public programming, and sometimes even promotional materials. But during this unprecedented year, they’ve b...