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Michael Rakowitz at the opening of his exhibition at the Castello di Rivoli Contemporary Arts Museum in Rivoli, Italy. Photo by Giorgio Perottino/Getty Images for Castello di Rivoli Contemporary Arts Museum
It’s all so entangled. The museum invited this conversation to happen on their terms, but that isn’t decolonization, divestment, or accountability. This has to be led by communities that have been impacted.
It is not the artists who need to depart. It is museums’ dysfunctional and abusive relationship to toxic philanthropy that should go away.