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Deborah Cullinan

Deborah Cullinan is CEO of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

Accolades and Accusations Are Part of the Story

What should art institutions consider when presenting work by artists accused of wrongdoing? Deborah Cullinan, CEO of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, embraces the complexity: “As opposed to limiting the experience of art-making to its final product, we can think of the artworks and the lives of artists as the cultural material we have as a society that allows us to engage in provocative, multifaceted conversation that leads to progress.”