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

[Robert Cargni Mitchell]

Was just reading this....and thought.....
http://theartnewspaper.com/news/museums/the-party-s-over-as-new-york-s-top-museums-feel-the-pinch/

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-----Original Message-----
From: FrameWorks [mailto:frameworks-bounces at jonasmekasfilms.com] On Behalf Of Fred Camper
Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2016 1:44 PM
To: Experimental Film Discussion List <frameworks at jonasmekasfilms.com>
Subject: Re: [Frameworks] Sally Berger, film curator, fired at MoMA

I understand and agree. And I hate all these confidentiality agreements
-- we should get the IRS to require transparency of not for profits, which, as a result of their tax exempt status, operate in effect with huge subsidies from all of us.

None of this, however, encourages me to want to sign an online petition without more information.

Fred Camper
Chicago

On 6/21/2016 7:23 AM, Chris Kennedy 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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