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".
New York writer and poet Teju Adisa-Farrar has written an open letter to the Brooklyn Museum critical of its announcement that two new curators for the African 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 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".