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,
L
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.
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.
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?
“...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.”...
NYC now has the mayor it deserves. Enjoy.
Once an institution caves in to identity politics as SOP, it is almost impossible for it to recover. Whatever its traditional mission may have been, its new primary mission will be agitprop, and the activists will drive out anyone who does not toe the party line.
Here's the thumbnail of last year's revenues from the published financial statement: funding from the endowment, $103.2 million; retail and auxiliary operations, $88.1 million; admissions and membership, $76.8 million; gifts and grants, $67.3 million; operating assistance from the City of New York, $25.4 million; other miscellaneous income, $8.3 million.
The City provides less than seven percent of annual revenues. The linked story says the city funding is to help with operating expenses and to subsidize energy costs. The Museum has a long, friendly partnership with the city, several city officials have been added to the Board, and city and state residents get discounted or free admission. The original Trustees who founded the Museum over a century ago specifically wanted it to be in New York as a civic asset, and the Museum has always valued that partnership. It would not surprise me, however, if the foregone value of admissions revenues from city and state residents exceeded the amount of city financial support. (That is my speculation; could be wrong.) Financially speaking, NYC may be a parasite attached to the Museum, not the other way around. But in any event, the City's contributions to the overall financial base are marginal.
What we are seeing here, therefore, is a very familiar example of a virulent socialist cancer in operation. In financial terms, NYC is a junior partner. The mayor is now attempting a coup. The junior partner wants to control hiring, promotion and the composition of the Board. If this goes forward, it amounts to a hostile takeover.
I don't know enough about the MMA to have a strong opinion about its current leadership, but I took a quick look at its senior management. They are almost all museum and non-profit careerists. I imagine that most of them are good at what they do, but they are salarymen, not independent actors. They will probably follow the path of least resistance and knuckle under to pressure. This is what DeBlasio is counting on.
The question is whether there are enough heavyweight independent actors on the Board to fight back. The proper response would be for the Board to tell DeBlasio, "We value our long and productive partnership with the City of New York, but we are not a city agency. We are independent. If you insist on attempting a takeover, we're out of here. Our lease on the Central Park site runs until XXXX. If you do not back off, we will depart as of that date. Go pound sand."
The MMA Board would have had that kind of independent spirit in the founding generation. Very few non-profit boards retain that kind of spirit across successor generations, which is why socialism spreads like a fungus. The MMA Board and senior management are consumed with the preservation and presentation of art. The politicians are consumed with a thirst for control. We know how that tends to work out in the long run. Eternal vigilance and all that.
This would be a golden opportunity for some major donors to step forward quietly and tell the MMA Board that they have the Museum's back. Given the politics of NYC, the Koch brothers may not be the best face to front this effort, but the Koch brothers are among the country's greatest philanthropists, have an interest in arts and culture, have long supported cultural institutions, and have the backbone to stand up to political thugs. Perhaps the Kochs, or someone like them, could put together a group to assure the MMA Board that, if it comes to it, they'll build a new, glorious building, with the property deeded in full to the Museum, in a jurisdiction that isn't run by leftist shakedown artists.
Stand up and fight. The MMA's independence should not be sacrificed to extortion by a very junior financial partner.
His wife has blown the better part of a BILLION on some poorly accounted for no-results initiative. The scale of his abuse of power is huge.
Diversity always means only one thing...less straight white males. It is just a substitute word for “reverse discrimination”. People need to sue.