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Chaédria LaBouvier

@chaedria.bsky.social
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Breaker of glass-ceilings. 1st Black curator at the Guggenheim. Scholar of Basquiat, 80s art, institutional misconduct and fraud. Teacher. Three revolutions. Humanist. Clinton's sister. Viola's. Edie's mama. 9th Generation Texan. Let's ride out.

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Chaédria LaBouvier @chaedria.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
A recap of Part II that I posted (link in comments). If we're going to talk about A.I., we need to talk about how we allowed fashioned plagiarism like what I'm talking about here, paved the way for A.I. to steal from everyone. There's a reason #Vox feels safe platforming plagiarized work.
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Chaédria LaBouvier @chaedria.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
With all of this talk about AI and the plagiarism/theft inherent in it, I would like to point you in the direct of a Legal Fundraiser that I have b/c Vox continues to dangerously platform Elon Green's plagiarized work of mine. If you can, pls donate and share www.gofundme.com/f/support-le...
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Chaédria LaBouvier @chaedria.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Vox's theft of my work engages another theft: the Guggenheim's. I've put a flow chart together for ppl to understand the scale and inter-connectedness of the layered harm and enterprise from Vox to Elon Green to the Guggenheim that is bonded through shared values of theft, racism & moral bankruptcy
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Chaédria LaBouvier @chaedria.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
This is why legal recourse is necessary, b/c it is the only language that they understand. I wouldn't say respect b/c their lawyer, an agent of the law said despite all of these examples and DMCA notices be damned, moving forward Vox will be ignoring them. Here's Elissa Cohen's response below.
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Chaédria LaBouvier @chaedria.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Vox Media's Criminal, the #1 True Crime podcast in America. It is supposed to be a gold standard in fact checking. In the podcast, the narrator and Green go to great pains to avoid mentioning my name; they credit my work to the Guggenheim and I am only mentioned once as "the curator".
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Chaédria LaBouvier @chaedria.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Green intentionally does not cite my work, though he is capable of doing so. The end notes are also incomplete and confusing, w/numbers and incomplete quotes that are impossible to follow for the lay reader, who are being led to believe they're reading original work. There are no numbers on the pgs.
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Chaédria LaBouvier @chaedria.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
He was reviewed in @nytimes.com Kirkus Review, etc. David Grann, Morgan Jerkins and Lucy Sante even blurbed the book. Here are a few examples of plagiarism in the book/podcast. There are dozens of examples like this. Green's book lacks citations and complete endnotes. See next.
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Chaédria LaBouvier @chaedria.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
March '25, Green publishes, "The Man Nobody Killed". What nobody did was fact-check; it contains close to 30 examples of plagiarism/copyright infringement -- and counting, a quote and interview that never happened with Michael Stewart's lawyer and centers a White savior story that is fictional.
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Chaédria LaBouvier @chaedria.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
It also for the first time, put most of the artists that were instrumental in the downtown activism for Michael Stewart into a cogent and clear concert of organizing. Keith Haring, David Wojnarowicz, Madonna, George Condo, etc. Michael Stewart's artwork and modeling photos were incorporated as well
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Chaédria LaBouvier @chaedria.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Through research, theory and primary sources that was part art history/investigative journalism/theory, I was able to create a bigger picture of the story and afterlife of Defacement, and how impt it is in the understanding of Basquiat's politics, or lack thereof.
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Chaédria LaBouvier @chaedria.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
In 2019, I curated an exhibition called "Basquiat's Defacement: The Untold Story". I was invited to the do the show by then-Chief Curator, Nancy Spector in 2017. It sought to better understand Defacement the painting, and its role in Basquiat's body of work & why it was his most personal painting
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Chaédria LaBouvier @chaedria.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
so much of what we read about the Epstein Class centers Epstein, and not the survivors. Everyone discussing Epstein should be reading Virgina's book. I understand is hard, but we really need to read it. I wrote some stuff, centering her words. curatingbasquiat.substack.com/p/talking-ab...
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Chaédria LaBouvier @chaedria.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I wrote something about Robert Duvall, filmmaking and curatorial and what one of the most elegant scenes in film history (The Godfather II) says about empire, ruin and us. "We are already Americans, it human beings that we hope to become."
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Chaédria LaBouvier @chaedria.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
I wrote a vignette about celebrity, it's stand-in for community (it's a bad idea) curatingbasquiat.substack.com/p/youre-not-...
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Chaédria LaBouvier @chaedria.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I talk about this briefly in this piece; our allegiance to celebrity is how and why we're here, b/c it functions as a substitute for action and community. curatingbasquiat.substack.com/p/youre-not-...
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Chaédria LaBouvier @chaedria.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
There's something very important that I need to share in the coming days/weeks. There was no way to say anything until everyone's life began to fall apart at the seams. And it's important to consider that, and the ppl that were harmed in that process. curatingbasquiat.substack.com/p/i-had-to-w...
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Chaédria LaBouvier @chaedria.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Edie and I had an argument in the park, but next time I'm gonna win
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Chaédria LaBouvier @chaedria.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
I'll be talking about this more. but I've gotten to a point where I am just suffocating from the stupidity. And the ppl that think they aren't stupid, they're cowards. the death of expertise is also the death of audience responsibility. We all have to become better audience.
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Chaédria LaBouvier @chaedria.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
For those who haven't seen her in a while, here's a picture of Edie from this summer. I'm sure she was about to argue with me about something
a black cockerspaniel with a strip of white sits on a bed with extremely round and bright brown eyes. She has a lot of personality and opinions and as a Sagittarius, isn't afraid to voice them
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Chaédria LaBouvier @chaedria.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
For a certain era of NYer, current and erstwhile, this is for you
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Chaédria LaBouvier @chaedria.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Private Equity ruins everything it touches
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Chaédria LaBouvier @chaedria.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Except for me
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Chaédria LaBouvier @chaedria.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Thinking of her
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Chaédria LaBouvier @chaedria.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I hope this isn't offensive, but I went to click on pictures of the adorable puppy and this came up and I just --
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Chaédria LaBouvier @chaedria.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
But also
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Chaédria LaBouvier @chaedria.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
It’s all so bleak
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Chaédria LaBouvier @chaedria.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Truly, honestly
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