Idk how the Whitney keeps fucking up so bad you think they would have levels to their decision making processes at this point "Wahbeh mass-bought Black artists’ work on the cheap in order to meet the requirement of “timeliness” in a rushed exhibition rather than engaging with those works on their own terms. From the academic, museum side of things, it must have seemed like such a good idea at first: They’d fill this out-of-touch museum with new works, and everybody would benefit!"

Dropping this bombshell on the artists.... People DREAM of having their work shown in the Whitney, Valentine wrote on Twitter in response to the letter from the museum. The museum “preyed on Black artists in this moment in such a disgusting way."

The self-appointed guardians of America’s visual heritage are at it again.

>"The self-appointed guardians of America’s visual heritage are at it again."

>"The self-appointed guardians of America’s visual heritage are at it again."

>"The self-appointed guardians of America’s visual heritage are at it again."

Stop it.