Vulture Editor Tweets Himself Into Further Detroit Trouble
From bad to worse. That’s the end result of Vulture editor-at-large Carl Swanson trying to explain to angry Motor City residents over the weekend why his piece for the site highlighted only white Detroit artists.
Swanson first threw Elysia Borowy-Reeder, director of Detroit’s Museum of Contemporary Art, under the bus, tweeting that she had put together the list of artists for him. Then, per Deadline Detroit’s Alan Stamm, he framed the assignment as something of a sideline afterthought, tended to while the writer visited his partner’s family over the holidays:
[Detroit artist Kelly] Guillory responds Sunday afternoon: “This is not a ‘little article’ when your site is read by millions.”
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