Sharon Percy Rockefeller mysteriously re-listed as MoMA trustee

Just five days after Urgent Matter reported that Daniel S. Och and Sharon Percy Rockefeller were no longer listed as trustees of the Museum of Modern Art, Rockefeller has mysteriously reappeared on the list.

Urgent Matter detected on Thursday that the two trustees' names had been removed from the museum's website and reached out to the museum for comment. MoMA has not yet responded, but quietly re-added Rockefeller's name on Tuesday. Och's name remains off the list.

Previously, though, Rockefeller was also listed separately as president of the museum’s International Council. That title does not appear to have been re-added.

Och is a financier and philanthropist best known as the founder of Och-Ziff Capital Management. Rockefeller is a longtime public broadcasting executive and arts patron who has served as president and chief executive of WETA, the Washington public media station.

Urgent Matter reached out to MoMA again for comment Tuesday about Rockefeller's reinstatement.

On Tuesday, the museum also added a "G." to David G. Booth's name. Amid the changes, former chairman Leon Black remains listed as a trustee.

Black has faced yearslong public pressure over his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender. Black stepped down as MoMA board chair in 2021 after scrutiny of his payments to Epstein and calls from artists for the museum to cut ties with him, but he remained on the board.

MoMA also previously did not return a February request for comment regarding Black’s status on the board amid continued fallout from the U.S. Justice Department’s release of Epstein documents.

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