Atlantic Writer Angers Museum Curator with ‘Dangerous,’ ‘Unethical’ Inquiry

Chaédria LaBouvier — who became the first black curator at New York City’s Guggenheim Museum in 2019 — reacted harshly to a recent inquiry about her experience at the museum made by Helen Lewis, a staff writer at the Atlantic.

LaBouvier has called her treatment by her colleagues at the museum, especially by former artistic director Nancy Spector, “the most racist professional experience of my life.”