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Protesters outside of MoMA in October of 2019 (photo by Hakim Bishara/Hyperallergic)
Over 150 Artists Call for Leon Black’s Removal From MoMA’s Board Over Jeffrey Epstein Financial Ties
Our Statement :
Collective Statement Signed by 157 artists, curators, and art workers
We, as artists and art workers, support the removal of Leon Black from the board of MoMA for reasons that have already been stated by many others. However, this should be considered the bare minimum. Beyond his removal, we must think seriously about a collective exit from art’s imbrication in toxic philanthropy and structures of oppression, so that we don’t have to have the same conversations over and over, one board member at a time. This thinking can only catalyze action once we state plainly: We do not need this money. Museums and other arts institutions must pursue alternative models, cooperative structures, Land Back initiatives, reparations, and additional ideas that constitute an abolitionist approach toward the arts and arts patronage, so that they align with the egalitarian principles that drew us to art in the first place.
Aaron Hughes
Aaron Landsman
Abou Farman
Ahmed Isamaldin
Ahmad Salameh
Ajay Kurian
Alan Ruiz
Alberto Garcia Rodriguez
Alex Paik
Alex Zandi
Alexa Punnamkuzhyil
Ali Eyal
Ali Yass
Amanda Matles, Pratt Institute
Aminah Ibrahim
Ana Ratner
Anna Sew Hoy
Andrea Fraser
Andreas Amble
Andrew Ranville
Andrew Weiner, NYU
Ánima Correa
Anna Harsanyi
Ann Holder
Art and Labor Podcast
Art Handlers Alliance
Artists For Workers
Aru Apaza
Axe Binondo
Azikiwe Mohammed
Baseera Khan
Betty Roytburd
Blakey Bessire
Brett Wallace
Caitlin Cahill
Carlos Rosales-Silva
Chelsea Birenberg
Christina Chan
Christina Martinelli
Claire Mirocha
Clarinda Mac Low
Clark Filio
Claudia Hart
Collective Çukurcuma (Mine Kaplangı & Naz Cuguoğlu)
Dachil Sado
Dana Kopel
Danielle Dean
David Borgonjon
David Kramer
Denisse Andrade, Pratt Institute
Devin Kenny
Diwali Hasskan
Edi Friedlander
Emily Johnson
Emily Shanahan
Eric Golo Stone
Erin Murphy
Eriola Pira
Eugene Yiu Nam Cheung
Francesca Altamura
Frank J. Stockton
Franklyn Cain
Gee Wesley
Gordon Hall
Greg Lindquist
Guerrilla Girls
Halieadorable211
Hallie McNeill
HOUSING Gallery
Hussein Adil
Ian Epps
Irkalla
Isabelle Brourman
Jake Davidson
Jared Brown
Jason Simon
Jeffrey Grunthaner
Jennifer M. Williams
Jenny Dubnau
Jessica Wilson
Jesus Benavente
Jihan El Tahri
Jo Shane
Johanne Swanson
Johnson Study Group
Jonathan González
Jorge Rojas
Joseph Lubitz
Josephine Heston
Julia Kwon
Juliana Cerqueira Leite
Kai Matsumiya
Kat Zhao
Katherine Aungier
Katie Giritlian
Katie Grace McGowan, Detroit, MI.
Katy Bea
KJ Freeman
Kristan Kennedy
Lawrence Sanchez
lexi welch
Lia Gangitano, PARTICIPANT INC
Lilly Hern-Fondation
Lincoln Tobier, Los Angeles
Lissa Regnier
Liz Glynn
Lluis Alexandre Casanovas Blanco
Lorelei Ramirez
Lucas Baisch
Manolis D. Lemos
Marnie Briggs
María Verónica San Martín
Max Warsh
Megan Elevado
Michael Rakowitz
Michelle Rosenberg
Mikeeh Zwirner (Institute of Museums Against All Fucked Up Social Systems)
Mimi Bai
Minahil Khan
Mira Dayal
Moyra Davey
Nan Goldin
Nataša Prljević
Nia Nottage
Nicole Eisenman
Nick Wylie, Public Media Institute
Nikiesha Hamilton
Nikki Columbus
Noah Fischer
Paddy Johnson
Patrick Carlin Mohundro
Paul John
Paul McAdory
Peter Rostovsky, artist, writer, educator.
Phil Collins
Rachel Valinsky
Ramón Miranda Beltrán
Rebecca Naegele
Rena Anakwe
Rindon Johnson
Rory Murphy
Ryan Oskin
Ryan Scullin
Sam Korman
Sara Grace Powell
Sara Magenheimer
Sari Weisenberg
Shanjana Mahmud
Sherko Abbas
Sophia Friedman-Pappas
Stephanie Acosta
Stephen Sewell
Sunny Iyer
Taehee Whang (Hyperlink Press)
Teresa Ross Tellechea
the Dismantle NOMA collective
Todd Ayoung, Pratt Institute
Todd Gray
V. M. McEwen
Valerie Chang
Vanessa Thill
Vijay Masharani
Wes Larios
William Powhida
Winslow Smith
Xavier Danto
Xaviera Simmons
Zazu Swistel
Editor’s note 2/12/2021 11:57am EST: This list of signatories has been updated since its original publication.