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A US museum has apologised for a job listing seeking a new director who would maintain the museum’s “traditional, core, white art audience".
The wording was a bullet point in a six-page job description that also said the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields was working to attract a more diverse audience.
However, museum officials removed the word “white”
at the weekend following outrage, including backlash from guest curators of an exhibit on a Black Lives Matter mural in Indianapolis.
The museum’s director and chief executive, Charles Venable, said the decision to use “white” had been intentional to show the museum wouldn’t abandon its existing audience as it works for more diversity.