Poster by the Guerrilla Girls. Photo by Luna Park.
The Guerrilla Girls have a message for the board at the Museum of Modern Art. We decided to help make sure it got delivered.
From the Guerrilla Girls…
“Advice to the Museum of Modern Art about BIG donors with BIG ties to Jeffrey Epstein:
MoMA should kick Leon Black and Glenn Dubin off its Board immediately, drape the Black & Dubin Galleries in black, and put up wall labels explaining why. The Guerrilla Girls volunteer to help write those labels.”
This call from the Guerrilla Girls comes after reports that two major donors to MoMA, Leon Black (the chairman of the board) and Glenn Dubin, were both longtime friends of convicted sex offender and obvious scumbag Jeffrey Epstein. What makes this all quite awkward (to say the least, perhaps revolting is more accurate) is that both Black and Dubin maintained their friendships with Epstein well after his 2008 guilty plea for soliciting a minor. According to The New York Times, Epstein served on the board of Black’s family foundation until 2012, and they invested together in 2011. Vanity Fair reports that Dubin’s ties to Epstein run even deeper, including a Thanksgiving dinner and allegations of sex trafficking. For now, Black and Dubin remain on MoMA’s board, of which Black is also chairman.