The Whitney Museum No Longer Has Ties to Anti-Migrant Tear Gas

The Whitney Museum's highly controversial chairman has officially resigned.

, Forensic Architecture kicked things up a notch. The London-based group dedicated its corner of the museum to educating visitors about how, through its ties to Kanders, the Whitney also has links to Safariland's recent actions, from arming police forces against protesters—including those at Standing Rock and in Ferguson, Missouri—to supplying the Israeli Defense Force with bullets fired at protesters in Gaza.

After Hyperallergic published a report detailing Kanders ownership of Safariland last November, more than 100 of the museum's staff members called for his resignation—a sentiment shared by the protesters who've now been gathering at the museum for months. By April, nearly three weeks before the 2019 biennial opened,

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