MoMa, Dump Trump!
On Friday, February 17th, protestors marched from the 2017 College Art Association (CAA) the Museum of Modern Art (MoMa), with the message to Dump Trump. The protestors demanded that the MoMa remove Larry Fink due to his ties with the Trump administration. Fink, who is the CEO of BlackRock is also on the board of the MoMa. Similarly to the Whitney Museum, the Guerilla Girls were at the protest handing out prints, which helped clarify to the protestors what was really going on. These prints state, “MoMa trustee and CEO of Blackrock, at a Feb. 3, 2017 meeting, advising Trump on deregulating the financial industry after his company soared to $5.1 trillion post the 2008 crash. MoMa, DUMP WHITE NATIONALISM,” and “Don’t let MoMa reduce art to the small number of artists who have won a popularity contest among big-time dealers, curators, and collectors. If museums don’t show art as DIVERSE as the cultures they claim to represent, TELL THEM they’re not showing the history of art, they are just preserving the history of Wealth and Power.”