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The art world, as those of us who participate in it know quite well, has a diversity problem. A “data snapshot” from the American Alliance of Museums, using information gathered in 2009, reveals that nearly 80% of the museum workforce in this country is white. In and of itself, that isn’t too much of an overrepresentation, but the breakdown of who works what jobs in museums often seems self-evident when you look around — guards tend to be people of color, curators are predominantly white.