Museum Trustees Behaving Badly in Columbus, Indiana & New York

The diversity, inclusion, and equity scam — otherwise called “race explains everything” — has oozed into the museum world, alas. Like the Lernaean Hydra, it’s a compounded, myriad evil.

The Whitney Museum’s new hire as director still strikes me as rich beyond belief. The museum’s longtime director, Adam Weinberg, announced last week that he’s leaving in the fall and, by the by, the new director is Scott Rothkopf, his chief curator, hired without a search. “One of the great things about an internal succession like this,” Rothkopf oozed, “is that we can continue the work we’ve been doing on equity and inclusion.” What he probably really thought was, One of the great things about an internal succession like this is I’ll make a million bucks next year.

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The diversity, inclusion, and equity scam — otherwise called “race explains everything” — has oozed into the museum world, alas. Like the Lernaean Hydra, it’s a compounded, myriad evil.

The Whitney Museum’s new hire as director still strikes me as rich beyond belief. The museum’s longtime director, Adam Weinberg, announced last week that he’s leaving in the fall and, by the by, the new director is Scott Rothkopf, his chief curator, hired without a search. “One of the great things about an internal succession like this,” Rothkopf oozed, “is that we can continue the work we’ve been doing on equity and inclusion.” What he probably really thought was, One of the great things about an internal succession like this is I’ll make a million bucks next year.