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Chaédria LaBouvier

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Chaédria LaBouvier is an American curator and writer. In 2019, she became the first person of Cuban descent to curate an exhibition in the Guggenheim's 80-year history, as well as the first black author of a Guggenheim catalogue, for the exhibition, "Basquiat's Defacement: The Untold Story". Her public allegations of racist treatment by the Guggenheim were not substantiated by an outside investigation, but were followed by the resignation of its chief curator and artistic director, who had first invited LaBouvier to guest curate the exhibition, and coincided with the hiring of its first full-time black curator.

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