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Museum Controversies: Reputational Concerns and "Offensive" Art
Museum Controversies: Reputational Concerns and "Offensive" Art
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70 minutes
Released:
Sep 4, 2019
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CORRECTION: After the recording of this podcast, the San Francisco School Board, in the face of community protest, reconsidered its decision to remove the George Washington murals from George Washington High School and will instead cover them. Against the backdrop of global museums distancing themselves from the Sackler name, two highly controversial Whitney Biennials involving activist calls for the destruction and removal of an artwork and, more recently, calls for the resignation of a Board member who made a fortune building a network of defense equipment companies, and numerous other controversies in the United States about the identity of board members, museum donors and artists, Steve and Katie speak with Max Anderson about controversial board members, donors and works of art. Max is currently the President of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation and was previously the Director of the Whitney Museum of Art and the Dallas Museum, among other leading museum director roles. About Max Anderson: http://www.maxwellanderson.com/about Souls Grown Deep Foundation: http://www.soulsgrowndeep.org/ Resources: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/what-price-philanthropy-american-museums-wake-up-to-public-concern https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/arts/whitney-warren-kanders-resigns.html https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/1509-warren-kanders-resignation-whitney/41cf3263664a16cf1a29/optimized/full.pdf#page=1 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/15/arts/design/met-museum-sackler-opioids.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/26/arts/design/george-washington-san-francisco-murals.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/21/arts/design/alice-walker-defends-george-washington-murals.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/13/arts/design/walker-art-center-scaffold.html http://www.artnews.com/2018/07/19/following-sam-durant-controversy-walker-art-center-forms-indigenous-public-art-selection-committee/ https://hyperallergic.com/382141/after-protests-from-native-american-community-walker-art-center-will-remove-public-sculpture/
Released:
Sep 4, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
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