Americans have flooded the streets of major metropolitan areas protesting racially-motivated police brutality. While mostly peaceful, the civil unrest does pose a unique security concern for those in charge of protecting the priceless art housed there.
For more than a week Americans have flooded the streets of major metropolitan areas across the country in protest of racially-motivated police brutality sparked by George Floyd's death in police custody.
While most protests and marches have been peaceful, civil unrest has prompted looting and property damage in cities like New York.Though most public gathering spaces like museums have been closed since March for social-distancing precautions amid the coronavirus pandemic, the civil unrest poses a unique security concern for those in charge of protecting the priceless art housed around the city.
— NYC Design June 4, 2020 MoMa posted what they call an incomplete list of resources and organizations for fighting racism and supporting justice and equality. "I would think museums want to step up in this time and communicate," Lamonaca told CNN. The question for curators now, Lamonaca says, is"how do we use our voices, our position in the community to bring people together and have meaningful conversation to difficult subjects.
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