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One activist called the protest an opportunity for museumgoers to consider "the role that our cultural institutions play in our everyday decisions and choices, and the effect that that has.”
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In a public letter released today, a group of theorists, critics, and scholars joins activists and members of the Whitney staff in the demand to remove Warren B. Kanders from his position as vice-chairman of the museum's board of trustees.
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Community control of cultural institutions, which would replace board members, could reshape cultural life in the United States.
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"They're singing songs about liberation, just be aware." said one guard over his walkie-talkie — a message that could be heard throughout the lobby.
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Artist Michael Rakowitz has withdrawn, Forensic Architecture announced plans to respond to the museum's political controversy in its commissioned work, and Decolonize This Place revealed a 9-week calendar leading up to the biennial.
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In a letter sent this afternoon, the organization urged, "We invite you to use your exceptional status as a worker who can claim both the freedom to dissent and the right to be paid to withhold your labor in solidarity with Whitney staff who cannot."
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The group’s recent letter calls for continued action, adding “Inaction with respect to the art-washing industrial complex of contemporary art makes our field complicit with death, disaster, and destruction.”
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The Whitney has not had the moral courage to reject support from a benefactor who generated his wealth in socially irresponsible ways.
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Following Sunday's large protest by Decolonize This Place, artists quietly installed an unauthorized exhibition calling on the museum to drop weapons manufacturer Warren Kanders from its board of trustees.
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Members and supporters of activist group Decolonize This Place emphasized that Warren Kanders is only a symptom of a larger problem.
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After Whitney Museum director Adam Weinberg published a letter to the public asserting the museum, "cannot right all the ills of an unjust world," Decolonize This Place organized a December 9 protest in solidarity with Whitney staffers.
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Parallel to today's protest at the RISD Museum, organizers from Decolonize This Place gathered at the Brooklyn Museum to decry stolen objects in the Brooklyn Museum's collection.