After Protest, Whitney Museum Cancels Show By Artists It Meant To Celebrate

Another hot summer, another heated controversy at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

For an exhibition entitled "Collective Actions: Artist Interventions In A Time of Change," the vaunted New York museum managed to alienate a group of artists it had hoped to celebrate. Several of them charged the museum with propagating systemic racism by not properly compensating BIPOC artists for their work, nor asking permission for the work to be displayed.

"This is unreal," wrote photographer in a . He posted a screen-shot of a message that appeared to be from Whitney curator Ferris Wahbeh, informing Valentine that one of his prints, called "Untitled" from the project , had been acquired for the Whitney's special collections, and the Whitney planned to include it in the upcoming show.