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Guggenheim curator demonstrates how art
and wokery has turned her into a raving lunatic

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Posted By: PageTurner, 9/13/2022 10:01:23 AM

Over at the storied and statusy Guggenheim Museum in New York, they've got some wokester civility culture going on in that temple of high art. A sympathetic writer from the left-leaning Atlantic wanted to do a story about the claimed racist travails of the museum's wokester curator ... and got her head bit off. (Snip for tweet) John Sexton at Hot Air reported on all the charm going on among these hoity-toities: That’s the most bland, polite email seeking an interview I’ve ever read. It’s entirely professional and not the least bit upsetting in any way. And notice Lewis did not “literally demand” anything as LaBouvier claims.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: downnout 9/13/2022 10:26:39 AM (No. 1276235)
Stunning. The question should be asked of the board members of the Guggenheim if they agree with this angry, hateful curator. She deserves to be fired.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: NorthernDog 9/13/2022 10:28:26 AM (No. 1276241)
All these institutions are descending into madness. The Chicago art museum firing all the docents because they were old white ladies (who were volunteers) was another example.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: velirotta 9/13/2022 10:51:26 AM (No. 1276265)
Who cares?
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Ida Lou Pino 9/13/2022 10:54:08 AM (No. 1276268)
Basquiat! LOL! His "art" looks like the gooey stuff brought home by a pre-K child - - that you hang on your refrigerator - - until the kid is old enough to tie his own sneakers.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Jesuslover54 9/13/2022 11:02:25 AM (No. 1276277)
#2, and remember that those old white lady docents had to work really hard and study and take classes so they could be volunteer docents.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: cold porridge 9/13/2022 11:04:45 AM (No. 1276280)
The curator needs to check her black privilege.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Mass Minority 9/13/2022 11:34:38 AM (No. 1276323)
Had to read a little about this Basquat guy. His paintings are childish scribbles (I do not understand art) and his high prices are due to His personality, talent and scarcity (when was a Rembrants value ever attributed to his personality?) The scarcity was attributed to the paintings being held by a very small group of billionaires and that they rarely enter the market. Reminded me of a story. About a decade ago I spoke with a stamp dealer who dealt in old letters (called covers). He had just turned down a significant holding of covers from early Arizona. People often collect covers from geographic areas as History. Early Arizona covers had been selling at very high premiums for many years and his price to aquire the holding had been quite low. A large auction house later snapped them up for a 7 figure sum. I asked him why he turned it down at a much lower price. He knew something the auction house did not, That crazy price competition for early arizona covers was due to Two very wealthy collectors who were in a crazy competition to build the "Best" early arizona collection and they had the financial means to do it. Now one of them had died and my dealer friend knew that the bottom was about to drop out of the Arizona cover market. And it did, absolutely no one was willing to pay the price for this huge collection, even that second wealthy collector, and as far as I know the auction house still has a great deal of it collecting dust in their warehouse. Beware the collectible market, it is fickle and very easily manipulated by a very few wealthy individuals.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: rocket-j-squirrel 9/13/2022 12:24:57 PM (No. 1276391)
I always wanted to send a bowling ball down that ramp.
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