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The artist Ai Weiwei wants the Museum of Modern Art to remove his works from its collection if the museum refuses to part ways with its chairman, investor Leon Black, given recent revelations about the Wall Street executiveâs close professional association with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Photographer Nan Goldin joined more than 150 artists who have also called for Blackâs removal from MoMAâs board.
MOMAâs chairman Leon Black has been a generous benefactor to the museum.
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The pressure is building at a time when institutions are being held to account for everything from the diversity of their staffs to the professional ties and actions of their trustees. But itâs also coming at a moment when colleges, museums and nonprofit institutions are starved for revenue and donations because of the economic fallout from the pandemic, leaving many reluctant to distance themselves from loyal and wealthy benefactors.
Artists call for Leon Black, chairman of MOMA, to step down over ties to Jeffrey Epstein
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A Donorâs Ties to Epstein Are Criticized at MoMA and Dartmouth
Ai Weiwei and other artists say the investor Leon Black should step down as MoMAâs chairman amid revelations that he paid $158 million to Jeffrey Epstein.
At Dartmouth College, there have been calls to change the name of the Black Family Visual Arts Center after revelations that Leon Black, an investor and philanthropist, paid $158 million to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.Credit.Angelina Scarlotta/The Dartmouth
Feb. 22, 2021
The artist Ai Weiwei said that he would ask the Museum of Modern Art to remove his works from its collection if the museum refuses to part ways with its chairman, the investor Leon Black, given recent revelations about the Wall Street executiveâs close professional association with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Amid Epstein Revelations, Leon Black Remains Chairman of MoMA
After the disclosure that Mr. Black had paid Jeffrey Epstein $158 million, some have called for his removal.
Leon Black, who has been the chairman of the Museum Of Modern Art’s board of trustees since 2018, paid $158 million to Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex offender.Credit.Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Museum of Modern Art
Jan. 27, 2021
After Leon Black announced this week that he would be stepping down as chief executive of Apollo Global Management amid revelations that he had paid $158 million to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, several art world figures called on the Museum of Modern Art to remove him as the chairman of its board of trustees.
The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington DC. As designed by Gordon Bunshaft, a rectangular pool in the garden echoes a window and balcony on the 1974 museum s façade. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Facing challenges from a federal planning authority and advocacy groups, the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC is under pressure to revamp or justify elements of a significant redesign of its sunken sculpture garden.
The original Japanese Zen-inflected garden, which spans 1.5 acres next to the National Mall, was completed in 1974 by the architect Gordon Bunshaft as a complement to the museum’s distinctive Modernist drum-shaped concrete and granite building. The garden’s Brutalist gravel walkways and lack of shade made it inhospitable to visitors during Washington’s hot summers, however, prompting the Hirshhorn to enlist the landscape architect Lester Collins three years later to add trees, plant beds and other vegetatio
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