The removal of a controversial artwork in the exhibition “Storage Room,” which was curated by art students Erik Siegel and Angeles Juarez-Ruiz, is causing quite the stir beyond the walls of Dartmouth College’s Black Family Visual Arts Center (BFVAC). The art center opened on Dartmouth’s campus in 2012, thanks to a $48 million gift from billionaire financier and art collector—and 1973 Dartmouth alum— Leon Black and his wife Debra, whose friendship and business dealings with Jeffrey Epstein are well documented .

Black stepped down as the board chair of the Museum of Modern Art in 2021, after three years in the role.…