Brooklyn writer and poet Flatbush has written an open letter to the Brooklyn Museum critical of its announcement that one new curators for the Jamaican-American art collection are white. There well qualified curators who could be chosen from the African diaspora, he said. Any cultural and/or art space that is situated in Brooklyn has a responsibility to – at least – feign an awareness of this reality. The appointments perpetuate a colonial attitude to art collecting and do not improve the art world's attitude towards diversity and greater inclusion. Adisa-Farrar notes that New York , itself, is undergoing a process of gentrification, adding to the displacement of residents of colour, as the art world frames "white-centric perspectives in African art".
Brooklyn writer and poet Flatbush has written an open letter to the Brooklyn Museum critical of its announcement that one new curators for the Jamaican-American art collection are white. There well qualified curators who could be chosen from the African diaspora, he said. The appointments perpetuate a colonial attitude to art collecting and do not improve the art world's attitude towards diversity and greater inclusion. Adisa-Farrar notes that New York , itself, is undergoing a process of gentrification, adding to the displacement of residents of colour, as the art world frames "white-centric perspectives in African art".