"There was just an interest in just destroying me, and I got caught in a sort of version of the #MeToo slam. The article that the FT wrote really destabilized a lot of people's confidence in me, and for me, it was deeply unfair, but I get how news cycles work and I get how stories work. And there wasn't an interest in hearing my side of the story."
"That #MeToo was the closest thing many institutions got to a reckoning with incipient and rampant sexual abuse and harassment was both, in the moment, a triumph, and in the now, almost 10 years later, an abject failure."
David Adjaye called 2023 sexual-misconduct allegations deeply unfair and said they destabilized public confidence in him. He said there was an interest in destroying him and that he was caught in a version of a #MeToo slam. He said there was no interest in hearing his side and that he responded only with a single statement. Three women alleged sexual harassment or assault while working with him. Several institutions severed ties, including the Studio Museum in Harlem, whose new building by Adjaye Associates opened recently. A critic said #MeToo’s long-term effects amounted to an abject failure. Adjaye likened media attention to a social wave to be waited out.
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