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# MoMA’s Leon Black Problem and Cuban Artists Under Siege
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/momas-leon-black-problem-and-cuban-artists-under-siege/
- Published: 2021-02-08T01:01:42.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T15:15:50.000Z
- Description: Hyperallergic’s news team gets together to go over the highlights of our coverage from the past week.
- Author: Hrag Vartanian
- Tags: Podcast, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-large, #Import 2025-11-24 09:11 (2021, 2022, part 1)

This week’s headlines were dominated by the news that the [Museum of Modern Art will not remove billionaire](https://hyperallergic.com/moma-chairman-leon-black-steps-down-as-ceo-of-equity-firm-following-review-of-jeffrey-epstein-ties/) [Leon Black from their board](https://hyperallergic.com/artists-call-for-leon-blacks-removal-moma-jeffrey-epstein/). Hyperallergic’s Jasmine Weber and Valentina Di Liscia join me to talk about this along with [PEN America’s new handbook for persecuted artists](https://hyperallergic.com/a-handbook-for-artists-facing-persecution/), [Mexico’s request that Christie’s auction house halt its sale of pre-Hispanic objects](https://hyperallergic.com/mexico-asks-christies-to-cancel-upcoming-sale-of-pre-hispanic-objects/), the [return of looted artifacts by the Museum of the Bible to Iraq and Egypt](https://hyperallergic.com/museum-of-bible-returns-5000-artifacts-with-insufficient-provenance-to-egypt/), and how some of the important [quilters of Gee’s Bend now have Etsy shops](https://hyperallergic.com/the-influential-quiltmakers-of-gees-bend-are-now-on-etsy/).

The music for this episode is [Darkstar’s “Jam”](https://warp.net/artists/91408-darkstar?ref=hyperallergic.com) courtesy of Warp Records. 

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