There she curated and organized numerous exhibitions, events, discussions, and public art projects including the annual "Tribute In Light" memorial honoring the lives lost on September 11, 2001; Paul Chan's Waiting for Godot in Post-Katrina New Orleans, and Kara Walker's A Subtlety in Brooklyn's Domino Sugar Factory in the Williamsburg neighborhood.
During his lifetime, Bacon wrote of the artwork that, “It was a throw-out and it depresses me […] that it has years later found its way onto the art market and I would prefer if it were not exhibited.”[8] At this time, the museum was still running on a multi-million dollar deficit.
[9][10] This was part of a coordinated action that targeted three other officials of the museum, which has faced controversy both before, and after October 7, over its funding and alleged financial ties to Israel, its hosting of the "This Place" photography exhibition,[11][12] as well as police crackdown of one such protest, characterized as "violent".
[13] New York City Mayor Eric Adams, called the event "overt, unacceptable antisemitism.” The NYPD has released surveillance footage depicting five suspects and asking the public for help identifying them.
[14] Some elected officials alleged anti-semitic motive for the vandalism without substantiation, including Senator Chuck Schumer,[15] Councilmember Lincoln Restler,[16] and Comptroller Brad Lander,[17] who erroneously stated that the board members targeted were Jewish.