Daily Management Review

Strike MoMA Continues With Weekly Protests


05/27/2021


With the ten-week strike against MoMA in full swing, Director Glenn D. Lowry resorts to cynical crisis management rather than creative engagement.



by Bernard Zirnheld

Sculpture Garden at Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) © hibnio, (CC BY 2.0)
Sculpture Garden at Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) © hibnio, (CC BY 2.0)
Over the past six weeks, activists, artists and museum employees have traced powerful interests contested around the globe straight to the heart of MoMA’s Board of Trustees. Calling themselves Strike MoMA, the group declared ten weeks of action to expose the museum’s ties to racialized violence and environmental devastation, and to begin shifting museum assets to community control and reparative projects. Read more