{"id":161903,"date":"2025-11-27T05:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T05:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/161903\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T05:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T05:01:10","slug":"david-adjaye-speaks-out-against-sexual-misconduct-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/161903\/","title":{"rendered":"David Adjaye Speaks Out Against Sexual Misconduct Allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tIn some of his first public comments after being accused of sexual misconduct in 2023, David Adjaye<\/a> lambasted the Financial Times story<\/a> that detailed the allegations, calling it \u201cdeeply unfair\u201d. Adding, \u201cThere was just an interest in just destroying me, and I got caught in a sort of version of the #MeToo slam.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAs reported<\/a> by the architecture and design magazine Dezeen, Adjaye spoke out in an interview with architecture critic Tim Abrahams for the podcast Superhumanism. \u201cThe article that the FT wrote really destabilized a lot of people\u2019s confidence in me,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd for me, it was deeply unfair, but I get how news cycles work and I get how stories work. And there wasn\u2019t an interest in hearing my side of the story.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tAs Dezeen describes, \u201cAdjaye did not explain why he thought the reporting was unfair. At the time, numerous publications reached out to Adjaye for comment, including Dezeen, but did not receive a reply beyond a statement he issued to the FT in response to its investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tARTnews was among the many publications that reported<\/a> on the allegations against Adjaye, which included claims from three women who worked with him related to sexual harassment and assault. In the wake of the story, several institutions cut ties with Adjaye, the most high-profile being the Studio Museum in Harlem<\/a>, which just opened in its new home designed by Adjaye Associates. <\/p>\n

\n\tIn an essay<\/a> published yesterday by Art in America, Kate Wagner considers the recent opening of that and other Adjaye-designed buildings, writing, \u201cThat #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.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn his podcast interview, Adjaye said, \u201cWhat can I do? You can\u2019t fight those kinds of social waves. All you can do is go underwater. Wait, let the wave go over, and hope there\u2019s something when you come up.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In some of his first public comments after being accused of sexual misconduct in 2023, David Adjaye lambasted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,30338,308,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-161903","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-david-adjaye","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}