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El Museo Del Barrio's Outgoing Director Sues The Museum For Employment Discrimination

El Museo Del Barrio Sued
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FILE - In this 2007 file photo released by El Museo del Barrio, Margarita Aguilar, the Vice President and Senior Specialist in Latin American art at Christie's, is shown. Aguilar was later appointed to serve as the next director of El Museo del Barrio and now has filed a legal complaint against the museum, accusing it of discriminating against her for being a woman and creating a hostile work environment for her. Aguilar, who was born in Cuba, filed a complaint at the Human Rights Division of the State of New York, her lawyer Donald Derfner said on Friday, Feb. 22, 2013. (AP Photo/El Museo del Barrio, File)

El Museo del Barrio, a struggling museum located in New York's most storied Latino community, Spanish Harlem, is in the middle of an identity crisis: how can it grow in a landscape of competitive city museums and hold onto its barrio roots? After a flurry of criticism over a new hire of a chief curator from Spain, who is perceived by many to be "out of touch" with the community, Margarita Aguilar, El Museo's director since 2011, has left the museum and filed a legal complaint charging employment discrimination based on gender and a hostile work environment and retaliation.

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