• NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I’m not sure how hosting an art exhibit commemorating the deaths of people murdered by Hamas on October 7th automatically makes the board members Zionists endorsing the persecution of Palestinians. Perhaps there is some context this article doesn’t touch on

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      5 months ago

      Perhaps there is some context this article doesn’t touch on

      There is.

      This is the most concise and complete summation I could find of the (early) history of the protests against Brooklyn Museum and Anne Pasternak.

      https://news.artnet.com/art-world/anne-pasternak-brooklyn-museum-interview-part-2-1409434

      Note too that there’s another controversy - regarding the hiring of a white curator for African art - that likely provides the context for the “white supremacist” part of the graffito.

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      5 months ago

      I can’t even find any connection between the Boston Museum and that exhibit in Manhattan.

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        5 months ago

        It’s the Brooklyn museum, but yeah I’m not sure if there was one either as I think the exhibit was in Manhattan, not Brooklyn. This is the quality of article I have come to expect from CNN.