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Dal\u00ed Retrospective Bust of a Woman 1933<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI am a communist and my painting is a communist painting. But if I were a shoemaker, Royalist or Communist or anything else, I would not necessarily hammer my shoes in any special way to show my politics.\u201d Pablo Picasso

\u201cPicasso is a communist. Neither am I.\u201c Salvador Dali<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Women in gowns and men in tuxedos stretched around the block Friday to see the New York museum\u2019s $450 million redesign. Also there were two police vans and about 100 protesters, chanting, screaming and dancing. They held signs — \u201cDivest from Prisons\u201d and \u201cBlood on Your Walls\u201d — and loud applause erupted when two of the group emerged from the museum with a banner saying \u201cMoMA\/Fink Make Sanctuary Not Prisons.\u201d
The target that night was Larry Fink, the head of BlackRock Inc., and the activists ire was over the firm\u2019s investment in \u201cprison companies, the war machine and the destruction of the global environment.\u201d Another group was there Monday to protest Steve Tananbaum\u2019s ties to the Puerto Rico debt crisis. The groups, which include New York Communities for Change, want the founder of GoldenTree Asset Management removed from the board of trustees, according to Julio Lopez Varona, one of the organizers.
Seven people were arrested at Monday\u2019s protest, according to the New York Post.
Elite New York organizations have long been subject to protests, but activists have increased their focus on museums this year and achieved some success. Warren Kanders, resigned in July as vice chairman of the Whitney Museum of American Art following months of demonstrations by activists opposed to his company\u2019s sale of law enforcement and military supplies, including tear gas. [Katya Kazakina and Michelle Kaske on MOMA’s reopening<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chris Ofili Embah 2017<\/a>
(Gift of Mimi Haas, and Lisa and Steven Tananbaum<\/a>, in honor of Kynaston McShine)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

In a candid assessment of what\u2019s happening in the business world \u2014 and perhaps taking a veiled shot at Washington at the same time \u2014 Mr. Fink wrote that he is seeing \u201cmany governments failing to prepare for the future, on issues ranging from retirement and infrastructure to automation and worker retraining.<\/a>\u201d He added, \u201cAs a result, society increasingly is turning to the private sector and asking that companies respond to broader societal challenges.\u201d
It is a refrain that we\u2019re hearing more and more from various pockets of the business community, and in fact last year company leaders found themselves taking stands on issues like immigration policy, race relations, gay rights and more.
But for the world\u2019s largest investor to say it aloud \u2014 and declare that he plans to hold companies accountable \u2014 is a bracing example of the evolution of corporate America. Mr. Fink says he is adding staff to help monitor how companies respond; only time will tell whether BlackRock truly uses his firm\u2019s heft to influence new social initiatives. [Andrew Ross Sorkin BlackRock\u2019s Message: Contribute to Society, or Risk Losing Our Support]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Marcel Duchamp<\/a> In Advance of the Broken Arm<\/a><\/em> August 1964 <\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I think for every cultural institution, and probably every educational institution and hospital, we\u2019re all living in the real world, and we\u2019re all acutely aware of the issues that are being brought to the surface and that have to be contended with. There\u2019s no formula for that, and our trustees are aware of that<\/em>.
At the same time, the vast majority of American institutions like ours are privately funded. <\/em>We don\u2019t get federal funding. We don\u2019t get state funding in our case\u2014we got a very modest amount of city funding for our capital project, and we get a little bit on occasion beyond that. But we\u2019re not a CIG\u2014a member of the cultural industries group\u2014so there\u2019s no line-item funding.
We live and die by the amounts of money we can raise privately. Some of that is self-earned through admissions, membership, retail, general fundraising. A very considerable amount of that is through the generosity of our trustees. So there is a balance that we tried to strike, but we are acutely aware that this is a different climate than it was a decade ago.<\/em> [Glenn Lowry in conversation with Andrew Goldstein<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cI am a communist and my painting is a communist painting. But if I were a shoemaker, Royalist or Communist or anything else, I would not necessarily hammer my shoes in any special way to show my politics.\u201d Pablo Picasso \u201cPicasso is a communist. Neither am I.\u201c Salvador Dali Women in gowns and men in tuxedos stretched around the block Friday to see the New York museum\u2019s $450 million redesign. Also there were two police vans and about 100 protesters, chanting, screaming and dancing. They held signs — \u201cDivest from Prisons\u201d and \u201cBlood on Your Walls\u201d — and loud applause erupted when two of the group emerged from the museum with a banner saying \u201cMoMA\/Fink Make Sanctuary Not Prisons.\u201dThe target that night was Larry Fink, the head of BlackRock Inc., and the activists ire was over the firm\u2019s investment in \u201cprison companies, the war machine and the destruction of the global environment.\u201d Another group was there Monday to protest Steve Tananbaum\u2019s ties to the Puerto Rico debt crisis. The groups, which include New York Communities for Change, want the founder of GoldenTree Asset Management removed from the board of trustees, according to Julio Lopez Varona, one of the organizers.Seven people were arrested at Monday\u2019s protest, according to the New York Post.Elite New York organizations have long been subject to protests, but activists have increased their focus on museums this year and achieved some success. Warren Kanders, resigned in July as vice chairman of the Whitney Museum of American Art following months of demonstrations by activists opposed to his company\u2019s sale of law enforcement and military supplies, including tear gas. [Katya Kazakina and Michelle Kaske on MOMA’s reopening] In a candid assessment of what\u2019s happening in the business world \u2014 and perhaps taking a veiled shot at Washington at the same time \u2014 Mr. Fink wrote that he is seeing \u201cmany governments failing to prepare for the future, on issues ranging from retirement and infrastructure to automation and worker retraining.\u201d He added, \u201cAs a result, society increasingly is turning to the private sector and asking that companies respond to broader societal challenges.\u201dIt is a refrain that we\u2019re hearing more and more from various pockets of the business community, and in fact last year company leaders found themselves taking stands on issues like immigration policy, race relations, gay rights and more.But for the world\u2019s largest investor to say it aloud \u2014 and declare that he plans to hold companies accountable \u2014 is a bracing example of the evolution of corporate America. Mr. Fink says he is adding staff to help monitor how companies respond; only time will tell whether BlackRock truly uses his firm\u2019s heft to influence new social initiatives. [Andrew Ross Sorkin BlackRock\u2019s Message: Contribute to Society, or Risk Losing Our Support] I think for every cultural institution, and probably every educational institution and hospital, we\u2019re all living in the real world, and we\u2019re all acutely aware of the issues that are being brought to the surface and that have to be contended with. There\u2019s no formula for that, and our trustees are aware of that.At the same time, the vast majority of American institutions like ours are privately funded. We don\u2019t get federal funding. We don\u2019t get state funding in our case\u2014we got a very modest amount of city funding for our capital project, and we get a little bit on occasion beyond that. But we\u2019re not a CIG\u2014a member of the cultural industries group\u2014so there\u2019s no line-item funding.We live and die by the amounts of money we can raise privately. Some of that is self-earned through admissions, membership, retail, general fundraising. A very considerable amount of that is through the generosity of our trustees. So there is a balance that we tried to strike, but we are acutely aware that this is a different climate than it was a decade ago. 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