Art Industry News: Korean Mayors Are Hunting for Any Possible Tie to the Samsung Family as They Vie for Its Art Trove + Other Stories
Plus, the staff of the Brooklyn Museum are the latest to launch a union push, and Germany launches an exchange program with African museums.
Samsung Group chairman Lee Kun-Hee. Photo: Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images.
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Only Five Percent of L.A. Board Members Are Black – A 2017 survey of 800 museums conducted by the American Alliance of Museums found that 89 percent of museum board members in the U.S. identified as white. One year after the Black Lives Matter movement reignited in 2020, the