A president for MoMA: Marie-Josée Kravis will lead the New York museum

The board of MoMA New York has a new president: she is Marie-Josée Kravis, who will replace Leon Black. Black has been in the eye of the storm for months because of his ties to entrepreneur Jeffrey Epstein. The current president, in office since 2018, had let it be known that he would not stand for re-election, so the museum’s board gave the role to the Canadian entrepreneur.

Kravis, born in 1949 and the wife of billionaire Henry Kravis, has a long history linking her to MoMA: she has served as a museum board member since 1994 and as museum president from 2005 to 2018. In addition, Kravis, along with her husband, has made substantial donations to the museum in the past, as well as supported several institutions (such as Rockefeller University), as well as former President Donald Trump’s election campaign with $1 million. From what is leaking out from the American press, Black will still remain on MoMA’s board of trustees, and will not step down as activists have been demanding instead, who since the beginning of the year have continued to wage “Strike MoMA” campaigns against the museum to demand that it be more inclusive and respectful of minorities.

And the protesters are still not happy with the appointment of Marie-Josée Kravis: according to them, it is simply a name change, but in substance it changes little, since the museum has “exchanged one imperialist oligarch for another. It is useless because the institution is rotten to the core.”

A president for MoMA: Marie-Josée Kravis will lead the New York museum

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