White Woman Gets Black Artist Booted From MoMA’s Safe Space for Black Visitors

The Museum of Modern Art has apologized to London-based Black artist Heather Agyepong after booting her from an installation that was designed specifically to be a refuge for Black museum visitors.

Agyepong took to Twitter after the incident last Saturday to share her story, saying she was at the “Black Power Naps” exhibit when a white woman entered and began laughing. When Agyepong told the woman the purpose of the event—explaining that it was a space “centered around Black people”—she said the woman began to shout and called her and another Black woman “aggressive.”

“So I got kicked out of an exhibition, an installation, centered around Black people and rest,” Agyepong ended the video.

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