“You Can’t…Continue to be on the Circuit Talking about the Museum”

The press, most recently The Atlantic, has intentionally mis/underreported this story, ignored it, and used other methods to protect the Guggenheim and key players who were involved. The public has been lied to and misled by the very institutions that are in place to inform them. But do not take my word for it. Hear it directly from Ashley James, Nancy Spector’s protégé and the Black curator who was hired during my exhibition. James said these words in the January 2020 meeting which comprised most of the evidence for The Atlantic’s blog post, “The Guggenheim’s Scapegoat.” The transcript is not published in complete, and all names save for Spector’s are redacted. James’s words are missing from the online version, but in context she is strategizing about how best to lie to the public, and the most effective ways of silencing me. No one in the Guggenheim’s curatorial ranks interrupted her. James had been at the museum for a little over two months, and had already fully understood the assignment. Spector was right there beside her as they began architecting how the Guggenheim would continue to gaslight me and the public.

I am choosing not to publish the full transcript of James’s words at this moment.

Everyone lied. It was the perfect cover up of misconduct, retaliation, fraud, racism and so much more. The Guggenheim and the press that helped them almost got away with it.

Almost.