Outrage over Hiring a White Woman as African Art Curator Misunderstands Expertise

Chika Okeke-Agulu | Frieze | 18th April 2018

White females dominate American curatorial appointments. So, appointing yet another white woman to curate African American art at Brooklyn Museum always risked causing a ruckus. It has. The appointee’s former professor, among many, has weighed in. “The outrage is… not really about diversification. Rather, it [is] about ownership of African art which, at best, is misguided”.