‘A Better Guggenheim’ Activists Seek Overhaul of Museum Leadership

Full moons are multiplying like celestial rabbits. That’s one explanation for why people in museums are doing so many crazy things. And lots of the craziness comes from . . . guess where . . . New York and Washington. First, New York.

“A Better Guggenheim” describes itself as a “collective of Guggenheim staff, past and present.” It’s got a website and an Instagram account, publishes a newsletter, offers job guidance, and, more to the point, demands that the trustees of the museum fire the museum’s director, chief curator, and chief operating officer.

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Full moons are multiplying like celestial rabbits. That’s one explanation for why people in museums are doing so many crazy things. And lots of the craziness comes from . . . guess where . . . New York and Washington. First, New York.

“A Better Guggenheim” describes itself as a “collective of Guggenheim staff, past and present.” It’s got a website and an Instagram account, publishes a newsletter, offers job guidance, and, more to the point, demands that the trustees of the museum fire the museum’s director, chief curator, and chief operating officer.