After Leon Black announced this week that he would be stepping down as chief executive of Apollo Global Management amid revelations that he had paid $158 million to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, several art world figures called on the Museum of Modern Art to remove him as the chairman of its board of trustees. “What does @MuseumModernArt board chair Leon Black have to do for MoMA to finally give him the boot?” tweeted Nikki Columbus, a curator who in 2019 settled a claim of gender, pregnancy and caregiver discrimination against MoMA PS1. The museum has yet to make any statement about Mr. Black, and its director, Glenn D. Lowry, declined a request for comment. Members of its board and staff have not publicly voiced any disapproval of Mr. Black, whose personal fortune is estimated at more than $8 billion. And there have been signs that Mr. Black, who became chairman of the museum’s board in 2018, plans to stay on.

Source: New York Times January 27, 2021 17:03 UTC