Olde Hornet
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The Houston Museum of African American Culture (HMAAC) announced on Monday, June 8, that a museum visitor intentionally damaged one of its paintings on May 21. The damage included a puncture and large cut or scrape in a painting by North Carolina artist Clarence Heyward called Man in the Garden, part of the EDEN exhibition in the downstairs gallery.
HMAAC CEO Emeritus and exhibition curator John Guess Jr. held a press conference at the museum on Tuesday, June 9, and said the vandalism was representative of continued bigoted attitudes in Houston.
"If we're honest about it, this is a very racist town," he said. "We're the fourth-most economically segregated city in the country. Houston has the highest poverty rate of any of the 25 metropolitan cities. And no one talks about that.This town itself has some serious issues. We're demographically diverse, but we remain segregated."
The Houston Museum of African American Culture (HMAAC) announced on Monday, June 8, that a museum visitor intentionally damaged one of its paintings on May 21. The damage included a puncture and large cut or scrape in a painting by North Carolina artist Clarence Heyward called Man in the Garden, part of the EDEN exhibition in the downstairs gallery.
HMAAC CEO Emeritus and exhibition curator John Guess Jr. held a press conference at the museum on Tuesday, June 9, and said the vandalism was representative of continued bigoted attitudes in Houston.
"If we're honest about it, this is a very racist town," he said. "We're the fourth-most economically segregated city in the country. Houston has the highest poverty rate of any of the 25 metropolitan cities. And no one talks about that.This town itself has some serious issues. We're demographically diverse, but we remain segregated."