Two protesters gathered in front of the Museum of Modern Art on September 22, calling for the removal of billionaire Leon Black from the museum's board. Katie Fuller, founder of the research initiative Time & Memory Project, staged the action together with her sister, who wished to remain anonymous. The pair demanded Black's ouster over repeated rape allegations — none of which have resulted in a conviction — and his ties to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The two handed out zines detailing the allegations and questioning Black's position as a trustee. The zines also ironized his ownership of a pastel version of Edvard Munch's "The Scream" (1893). Fuller turned that critique into costume, protesting in a Ghostface mask from the Scream franchise and a pastel blue jumpsuit.

"When I found out Leon Black had been accused of raping a minor and was still a MoMA trustee, I rage screamed into a pillow before realizing I could stage an action," Fuller told Hyperallergic. The educator and curator follows developments in the Epstein files closely. She said she was particularly incensed when Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche moved Epstein's convicted accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, to a minimum-security prison in 2025.

The action comes six days after the US House of Representatives unanimously voted to hold Black in contempt of Congress for defying subpoenas in an Epstein investigation. Black has faced escalating protests and legal probes since 2021, when news broke that he paid Epstein $158 million between 2012 and 2017 for financial advice — payments made after Epstein's first conviction for soliciting prostitution from a minor.

MoMA has not responded to Hyperallergic's immediate request for comment.

The protest signals that pressure on the museum over its embattled trustee is unlikely to subside while congressional scrutiny of Black's Epstein ties continues.