Studio Museum in Harlem and Other Clients Cut Ties to David Adjaye
The Studio Museum in Harlem announced Thursday that it had taken the significant step of parting ways with David Adjaye, the charismatic Ghanaian British architect who is building its new home in Manhattan. A library project in Portland, Ore., is moving forward without him. A sculpture park in Lincoln, Mass., canceled a show of his work planned for fall. And other cultural institutions from Princeton, N.J., to Liverpool, England, expressed serious concerns in response to the allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct against Mr. Adjaye that surfaced this week.
“The actions being alleged are counter to the founding principles and values of the Studio Museum,” Raymond J. McGuire, chairman of the museum’s board, wrote in a statement to The New York Times.
Mr. Adjaye himself in a statement said that he was stepping away from completion of the Studio Museum project “with the heaviest heart,” adding that “the prospect of the accusations against me tarnishing the museum and creating a distraction is too much to bear.”
On Tuesday, The Financial Times reported that three women, who were not named in the article, had accused Mr. Adjaye “and his firm of different forms of exploitation — from alleged sexual assault and sexual harassment by him to a toxic work culture — that have gone unchecked for years.”
Source: The New York Times
