Yes, Okwui Enwezor was basically fired. As one member of Bavaria’s parliament put it, “Enwezor had too many scandals to handle at once. [He] is not a manager. He’s a great artist, but artists are not managers.” What were those scandals? Yes, the museum has serious money troubles, but one of Onwezor’s biggest problems was a controversy over the presence of Scientologists on the museum’s staff. (Seriously? Yes.)
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