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The Indianapolis Museum of Art has appointed its third leader in four years as it seeks to end a period of tumult sparked by a racially insensitive job posting. Le Monte G. Booker Sr., the former chief financial officer for Chicago’s Field Museum, replaces Colette Pierce Burnette, who left in November after just over a year on the job. Burnette, in turn, had replaced longtime leader Charles L. Venable, who resigned in 2021 amid blowback from posting a job announcement for a new museum director who would diversify the institution while maintaining its “traditional, core, white art audience.” Venable is white. Burnette and Booker are Black. (New York Times)
Background from the Chronicle: Few People of Color Lead in Art Museums. Can Philanthropy Change That?
Within the struggle to deal with this era’s biggest challenges, such as income inequality, climate change, and homelessness, has been a tension between individual action and movement activism. A turn away from personal acts, including volunteering, and toward mass protests, such as Occupy Wall Street, in the 2010s, has coincided with a loneliness epidemic and increased despair, especially among younger Americans writes Vox’s Rachel M. Cohen in an essay. But people need not choose between the two, and the state of giving is not as dire as donor statistics suggest, when daily acts of charity among friends, family, and neighbors are included. (Vox)
Background from the Chronicle: Giving Continues Its Decline, Down 2.1% in 2023. Can Fundraisers Turn the Tide in 2024?
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