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David Kaufman: WNBA and Met Gala highlight everything wrong with 'progressive' institutions

The controversies surrounding John Galliano and Sophie Cunningham both point to a failure of leadership

Beyond the crowds and the glare of the spotlight, there appears to be little overlap between the hard-charging world of professional women’s basketball and the glamour and spectacle of the Met Gala, held each May in New York. But the current crises surrounding both the gala and games reflects something much deeper: the startling failure of leadership plaguing progressive-leaning cultural institutions across America.

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There was a cringey inevitability to the decision by couturier John Galliano on Monday to bow out as honouree of next year’s Met Gala and an accompanying exhibition of his work. After all, how else could it have ended for a designer whose trail of offensive, antisemitic behaviour is so severe, it was deemed criminal by the French legal system?

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