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Podcast #202: How Dubious Racism Accusations Brought Down the Guggenheim Museum’s Top Curator

Quillette

22 Nov 2022 · 1 min read

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Atlantic writer Helen Lewis about the fate of Nancy Spector, who lost her job at the pinnacle of the Manhattan art world amidst a flurry of unsubstantiated accusations by independent scholar Chaédria LaBouvier.

In America, the summer of 2020 was revolutionary: noble goals were being pursued, but the ground was constantly shifting, and it was unwise to end up on the wrong side of the revolutionaries. This is the story of a scapegoat: https://t.co/GtuRqt6M66
— Helen Lewis (@helenlewis) October 3, 2022

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