Timeline
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December 2021
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"Virginia's Massive Robert E. Lee Statue Has Been Removed"
Monuments, Protest
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MOCA Los Angeles employees still negotiating first contract with museum leaders after unionizing two years ago
Staff, Unions
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September 2021
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Departure of MOCA Los Angeles Director Klaus Bisenbach
Departure, Museum Directors, Staff
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July 2021
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Departure of Philadelphia Museum of Art's Director and CEO Timothy Rub
Departure, Museum Directors
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Departure of the Phillips Collection's Director and CEO's Dorothy Kosinski
Departure, Museum Directors
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Departure of Palm Springs Art Museum's Curator Rochelle Steiner
Departure, Staff
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June 2021
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Departure of Phoenix Art Museum's Director Tim Rodgers
Departure, Museum Directors
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Berlin Museum Board to Negotiate Return of Benin Bronzes
Repatriation
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Departure of Memphis Brooks Museum of Art's Director Emily Ballew Neff
Departure, Museum Directors
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May 2021
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Departure of PAFA's Director Brooke Davis Anderson
Departure, Museum Directors
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Departure of Winterthur Museum's Director and CEO Carol B. Cadou
Departure, Museum Directors
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March 2021
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Departure of MoMA Chairman Leon Black
Boards / Trustees, Museum
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Departure of Bellevue Arts Museum Executive Director Benedict Heywood
Departure, Staff
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Atlanta spa shootings
Anti-Asian Hate, Mass Shooting, Racism
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Artists pull out of Chicago MCA Exhibition in Protest of Worker Layoffs
Artist-Driven Activism, Protest, Staff
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February 2021
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Baltimore Museum of Art receives $1M for equity initiatives
Diversity, Exhibitions, Museum Collections
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Departure of MOCA Los Angeles Human Resources Director Carlos Viramontes
Departure, Staff
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Departure of Newfield's Director and CEO Charles Venable
Departure, Museum Directors
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First Collective Bargaining Agreement with IUOE Local 30 Guggenheim Workers Union
Staff, Unions
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Cultural Workers address Indianapolis Museum of Art job posting controversy
Controversy, Racism, Staff
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Departure of SFMOMA's Director Neal Benezra
Departure, Museum Directors, Staff
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Metropolitan Museum of Art considers deaccessioning part of their collection to gather funds for care of their collection due to COVID-19 challenges.
Museum Collections, Staff
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Departure of Carnegie Museum of Art's Deputy Director Ronald Lee Newman
Departure, Staff
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January 2021
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Departure of MCA Chicago's Chief Curator Michael Darling
Departure, Staff
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Naomi Beckwith Named Deputy Director and Chief Curator at Guggenheim Museum
Leadership, Museum Directors
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Time's Up Museums changes its name to Museums Moving Forward
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December 2018
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MoMA PS1 Art Handlers and Maintenance Workers Protest Unfair Wages
Staff, Unions
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November 2018
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Departure of Metropolitan Museum of Art's Social Media Manager Kimberly Drew
Departure, Staff
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Sarr Savoy report, "The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage: Toward a New Relational Ethics," released.
Repatriation, Report
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September 2018
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Report: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's and Ithaka S-R's Case Studies on Institutional Practices in Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion from Eight Art Museums
Diversity, Staff
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Report: The Burns Halperin Report on African American artists
Diversity, Exhibitions, Museum Collections, Racism
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Departure of California State Long Beach’s University Art Museum's Director Kimberli Meyer
Departure, Staff
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Departure of Palm Springs Art Museum's Executive Director Elizabeth Armstrong
Departure, Staff
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Report: Invisible no more an evalution of the Smithsonian Institution and Latino Representation
Diversity, Exhibitions, Museum Collections, Staff
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July 2018
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Founding of Time's Up Museums
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Nikki Columbus files pregnancy discrimination claim against MoMA PS1
Discrimination
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June 2018
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Departure of Brooklyn Museum's Deputy Director and Chief Curator Jennifer Y. Chi
Departure, Staff
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Departure of Munich's Haus Der Kunst's Director Okwui Enwezor
Departure, Museum Directors, Staff
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May 2018
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Departure of MOCA Los Angeles Director Philippe Vergne
Departure, Museum Directors
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April 2018
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Baltimore Museum controversy over selling "blue chip" works from collection
Controversy, Deaccessioning, Diversity, Exhibitions, Museum Collections
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Departure of Scottsdale Musuem of Contemporary Art's Director and Chief Curator Sara Cochran
Departure, Staff
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Open Letter: Brooklyn Museum "Your Curatorial Crisis is an Opportunity to Decolonize"
Diversity, Equity, Open letter
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March 2018
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Departure of MOCA Los Angeles Chief Curator Helen Molesworth
Departure, Staff
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Departure of Ghent Museum's Director Catherine de Zegher
Departure, Staff
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Departure of Bordeaux's CAPC Musée D'art Contemporain's Director Maria Inés Rodríguez
Departure, Staff
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January 2018
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Departure of Queens Museum's Director Laura Raicovich
Departure, Museum Directors, Staff
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Departure of VCU Institute for Contemporary Art's Director Lisa Freiman
Departure, Staff
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