With new urgency, museums cultivate curators of color
THE NEW YORK TIMES
By Robin Pogrebin
For decades the country’s mainstream art museums have excluded people of color — from their top leadership to the curators who create shows to the artists they display on their walls. Now, eager to attract a broader cross-section of visitors at a time when the country’s demographics are changing — and, in New York, facing an ultimatum linking city funding to inclusion plans — a growing number of museums are addressing diversity with new urgency. The Ford Foundation, with the Walton Family Foundation, last November committed $6 million over three years toward diversifying curators and management at art museums nationwide. The effort funded 20 programs, including those at Lacma; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Pérez Art Museum Miami; and the New Orleans Museum of Art. [More]
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| A growing number of people of color in New York City’s curatorial world include, from left, Rujeko Hockley, Marcela Guerrero, Adrienne Edwards, and Christopher Y. Lew of the Whitney Museum of American Art. Credit Bryan Derballa for The New York Times |
Percentage of full-time curators on staff at each institution who identify as people of color.
50%
39
36
32
29
28
26
25
25
23
19
19
11
