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After Museum Director Is Fired, Artist Shuts Down Her Exhibition on Police Brutality [UPDATED]
The museum’s director Kimberli Meyer was fired days before the exhibition opened, a project that she had helped to spearhead.
Matt Stromberg
Matt Stromberg is a freelance visual arts writer based in Los Angeles. He is a frequent contributor to Hyperallergic and is also an associate instructor in Art at Mt. San Jacinto College.
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