Museums struggle to embrace diversity in new documentary
By DW
30 May 2023 |
8:33 am
As Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum attempts to diversify away from a white male-dominated modern art world, the film “White Balls on Walls” documents its successes and failures.
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