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  • Native American Groups Allege Met Museum’s Curator Is ‘Pretendian’

    05/28/2024 1:08:51 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 53 replies
    New York Post ^ | May 28, 2024 | Isabel Vincent
    Native American campaigners are raising questions about the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s first-ever curator of Native American art — claiming she does not belong to a federally recognized tribe in the US, The Post has learned. Patricia Marroquin Norby was hired with great fanfare in 2020, after what the museum said was “a long and competitive search,” as its “inaugural Associate Curator of Native American Art” in its American Wing. For years, Marroquin Norby, 53, described herself — including in legal filings — as “Apache,” “Eastern Apache” and “Nde” as well as “Purepacha/Tarascan,” an indigenous group from the northwestern part...
  • De Blasio considers cutting funds from museums if they don’t diversify

    05/06/2019 9:04:24 PM PDT · by EinNYC · 35 replies
    NY Post ^ | May 6, 2019 | Julia Marsh
    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.