To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines FACING PUBLIC BACKLASH, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston has denied targeting DEI employees when it fired 33 people, including the institution’s only Muslim curator, Nadirah Mansour, only Native American curator, Marina Tyquiengco, and only Black curator, theo Tyson, reports Artnet News. After news of the layoffs effective Jan. 30, 130 staff at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design demanded the museum rehire the curators, along with several other employees, while nearly 2,000 people have signed a petition to a similar end. But in a statement, MFA Director Pierre Terjanian insisted the layoffs were simply due to financial deficits following the COVID-19 pandemic. “One third of our entire staff identified as people of color prior to the restructuring – and those numbers are the same today,” he stated. Many observers, however, see little coincidence with the layoffs and President Trump’s anti-DEI policies, and they also point to the MFA’s firing of Tracy Brown, the MFA’s Director of Inclusion Diversity, Equity and Access …