Posted on 05/06/2019 9:04:24 PM PDT by EinNYC
The heads of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall are among dozens of cultural institution leaders quaking in their boots as Mayor Bill de Blasio considers slashing their funds if they fail to meet his staff diversity criteria, The Post has learned.
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Leftist = Dictator wannabe.
Who will stop them?
Totalitarian meglomaniac.
In the rest of the world this is called blackmail.
staff diversity today, exhibit diversity tomorrow.
Why so upset? You should be laughing your ass off. All those sooooo smart uber Lib Board Of Director types are about to get **** ****** by the guy 90% of them voted for.
So sit back, have a Sno Cone, and enjoy the show.
Just be sure you have an exit plan when NYC comes crashing down. You’re gonna need one.
Best,
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Uh,oh, does that mean the museums will be forced to hire a few straight men? The horror! What next? Straight male dress designers in New York’s fashion industry.
Horrible.
Museums are there to preserve and show antique treasures, not to be another experiment in diversity.
They need to hire the best, regardless of color or ancestry.
Awful, but it’s the natural result of voting a guy like de Blasio in. He got something like 70% of the vote if I recall. A lot of New Yorkers are as bad as he is.
Thanks EinNYC. Of interest to GGG because the of the museum angle. DeBlasio needs to be removed from office, and then all the corrupt BS he's been pulling investigated, then prosecuted, and he and his freakshow family litigated every remaining day of their lives.
Racist and dictatorial. And pretty nuts too
He and most SJWs are the 8 year old at his birthday party running around to check that no one’s piece of cake is bigger than his and who screams “NO FAIR!!” when he finds his piece is smaller than some other kid’s.
“They need to hire the best, regardless of color or ancestry.”
This is who will get the job:
“The move is intended to help boost people with African, Latin, Asian, Arab and Native American heritage, “LGBTIQ populations,” people with disabilities, non-English speakers and the poor.”
Would we really expect anything different than this from a government-controlled institution? Same as in the government schools. When government allocates the funds, government calls the shots.
At some point, the voters gave up and turned these things over to the government because it was the easy thing to do and it funneled a lot of money to certain people.
If we don't like it, then we should donate to private museums, and private schools, instead.
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Go ahead and cut funding. Why does everyone here care so much about, first, NY public schools and, now, NY museums heavily funded by taxpayers?
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YES!!
And while Warren Wilhelm may think this plays well in Lefty New York, it is poison in a national election which he is determined to enter. Blinded my the lust for raw power.
“...and this is the next of our legally mandated fraud wings.”
In DC a Leftist woman has decreed that she’ll use her position to “recontextualize” the old dead white male art in the collection to address issues like rape culture, imperialism, and other shameful traits of the patriarchy.
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Kaywin Feldman Becomes the First Woman to Direct the National Gallery of Art (social justice in DC)
artnet ^ | December 11, 2018 | Eileen Kinsell
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3714064/posts
...Feldman, 52, will now oversee an institution with more than 5.2 million annual visitors, a staff of 1,100, and an operating budget of $167.8 million ($129.5 million of which comes from the federal government). It is a significant step up from the scale of Minneapolis, which had 900,000 visitors last year and maintains a full-time staff of 265 and an operating budget of $35 million....
...She is also not afraid of experimentation. Last year, for example, the Mia unveiled an unorthodox overhaul of six of its 17 period rooms designed to highlight the power structures behind them. (The fact that one of the room’s previous inhabitants was a slave owner was made explicit, as were his ties to the local Native American community.)...
Feldman will have to contend with the politics of leading an institution in DC that is largely federally funded. In an essay for Apollo magazine published earlier this year, she wrote: “Art museums are intensely political organizations—political with a small ‘p’. Art is political because it is an expression of lived human experience; identity, love, sex, religion, death, home, happiness, and trauma have always been subjects for artists. A concerned trustee at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, where I am the director, recently asked me if we would ever be the focus of protest. I assured him that we would, and urged him to walk around the galleries if he wanted to find offense. We have it all on our walls: imperialism, colonialism, war, oppression, discrimination, slavery, misogyny, rape, and more.”...
the poor don’t give a damn about million dollar art collections.
They look upon the benefactors of such endowments with spite as they struggle to meet daily living expenses.
And of late, the museums were looking to bring in new audiences, like highlighting artworks that Beyonce has referenced in her music videos. As if that becomes the artbitor of “good” art.
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