In The Wake Of Apparent Hostility Toward Black Guest Curator, The Guggenheim Hires Its First Full-Time Black Woman Curator

In The Wake Of Apparent Hostility Toward Black Guest Curator, The Guggenheim Hires Its First Full-Time Black Woman Curator by Artsjournal2

Art historian Chaédria LaBouvier, who was the first solo Black woman curator in the museum's 80-year history, said that she was cut out of her own show, "Basquiat's 'Defacement': The Untold Story." Now the Guggenheim, without directly addressing LaBouvier's claims, has hired the Brooklyn Museum's Ashley James. James's work "'complements the Guggenheim's mission to present […]

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:36PM on November 17, 2019

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