New York writer and poet Teju Adisa - Farrar has written an open letter to the Brooklyn Museum critical of its decision that two new curators for the African art collection are white . There well qualified curators who will be drawn from the African diaspora , he said . Thus, the appointment of these two curators provides another concrete example of the problematics in which this discontentment is rooted. The appointments perpetuate a colonial attitude to art collecting and do not reflect the art world 's attitude towards diversity and greater inclusion . Adisa - Farrar notes that Brooklyn , 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 " .
New York writer and poet Teju Adisa - Farrar has written an open letter to the Brooklyn Museum critical of its decision that two new curators for the African art collection are white . There well qualified curators who will be drawn from the African diaspora , he said . The appointments perpetuate a colonial attitude to art collecting and do not reflect the art world 's attitude towards diversity and greater inclusion . Adisa - Farrar notes that Brooklyn , 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 " .