Last week the Guerrilla Girls announced that they have canceled their book contract with Phaidon, citing Leon Black's association with convicted sex offender and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Phaidon is a multi-national publisher of books on art, architecture, design, fashion, photography, and popular culture, based out of London and New York City, with additional offices in Paris and Berlin.
Phaidon has over 1500 titles in print and has sold more than 42 million books worldwide. Founded in Vienna in 1923, the company was sold to Black in 2012.
“In 2018, the Guerrilla Girls contracted with Phaidon Press to publish our dream book of all our work from 1985 to today: conceptualized, designed and written by us,” the Guerrilla Girls said in a statement. “In 2019, the world learned about Black’s extensive and shady dealings with shady pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, before and after Epstein’s conviction for sex trafficking young girls. We decided we could not work with Phaidon.”
They have also called for Black, to step down from his post as chair of the board of directors of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
“How to explain MoMA’s silence? And why does MoMA tolerate people like Black and [Glenn] Dubin on its board in the first place?” queried the Guerrilla Girls. “If we’re stuck with a system where our tax-exempt, educational institutions have to depend on money from the super rich, they should at least choose board members who make the world a better, not a worse place.”
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