[Frameworks] Sally Berger, film curator, fired at MoMA

[chris bravo]

"An online petition is likely all that anyone can do"

there is a lot of energy here in NY to confront issues around sexism and
racism in curatorial practice. particularly at the moment there are people
trying to bring pressure to bear on Anne Pasternak, the Brooklyn Museum and
their cozy relationship with real estate developers. here are a couple good
projects off the top of my head (I am sure there are others) if people want
to get involved:

http://notanalternative.org
http://occupymuseums.org




On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 8:23 AM, Chris Kennedy <chris at signaltoground.com>
wrote:

> "At the very least, it seems to me that someone who cares about this
> curator should try to do the work a good journalist would do and get to
> the bottom of the situation. An authoritative analysis that could show
> the firing was really wrong might actually help." -Fred Camper
>
> That's a nice idea, but journalists at least have institutional protection
> against libel laws. Any organization even half as  big as MoMA has a large
> HR dept and is lawyered up to prevent the bottom of the situation from ever
> being reached. In short, no one besides Berger's immediate confidants and
> those that did the firing are ever going to know what happened. An online
> petition is likely all that anyone can do, unless local NYers are willing
> to boycott the MoMA.
>
> Chris
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