British artist Tai Shani announced on social media that she withdrew her monograph from Phaidon due to allegations against the company’s owner that were revealed in the Epstein files. “Behind these allegations…are human beings, victims: young women, children, often from precarious backgrounds, real lives exploited and destroyed,” Shani’s statement reads. She thinks of withdrawal, she said, as “a refusal to contribute to any cover for the violence and the misogyny that underpin so many spheres of culture.” Multiple women have accused billionaire Leon Black, who founded Apollo Global Management and purchased Phaidon in 2012, of sexual assault, Hyperallergic reports. The […]
