Outside the building in Brooklyn Heights, a banner was hung with the message "Brooklyn Museum Anne Pasternak White-Supremacist Zionist" and "Funds Genocide", as well as blood-red handprints. Nearby doors and windows were also splashed with fake blood.
"We are deeply troubled by these horrible acts targeting leaders connected to the museum," a spokesperson for the Brooklyn Museum told The Art Newspaper in a statement.
"For two centuries, the Brooklyn Museum has worked to foster mutual understanding through art and culture, and we have always supported peaceful protest and open, respectful dialogue. Violence, vandalism, and intimidation have no place in that discourse."
"We, the members of AAMD, unequivocally and forcefully condemn this antisemitic act," the reads. "As cultural leaders-and also as people of different backgrounds and experiences-we understand the emotion and anger the Israel-Hamas war has wrought.
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