Getty Museum’s Good Citizenship after Stolen-Art Scandal

Last year, I wrote about Getty staff’s tantrums after the Floyd murder in Minneapolis. An entitled, surly, ungrateful, and, I suspect, large part of the Getty staff badgered the Getty’s top brass to endorse and then to celebrate the Black Lives Matter racket. The Getty’s leadership wisely declined at first, understanding that BLM is not a mantra but a brand, an organization, and a fundraising machine about which we still know very little. The Getty, as a nonprofit, mustn’t get involved in politics. The death of the fentanyl addict and violent ex-con Floyd, however filmed and gruesome, was a matter for the courts, it correctly believed.

Too many on the staff also complained the Getty doesn’t do enough for the community, which is rich given that it’s a free museum and spends tens of millions of dollars on programs for the locals.

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Brian T. Allen

Brian T. Allen is National Review’s art critic.

Last year, I wrote about Getty staff’s tantrums after the Floyd murder in Minneapolis. An entitled, surly, ungrateful, and, I suspect, large part of the Getty staff badgered the Getty’s top brass to endorse and then to celebrate the Black Lives Matter racket. The Getty’s leadership wisely declined at first, understanding that BLM is not a mantra but a brand, an organization, and a fundraising machine about which we still know very little. The Getty, as a nonprofit, mustn’t get involved in politics. The death of the fentanyl addict and violent ex-con Floyd, however filmed and gruesome, was a matter for the courts, it correctly believed.

Too many on the staff also complained the Getty doesn’t do enough for the community, which is rich given that it’s a free museum and spends tens of millions of dollars on programs for the locals.