The agenda for the Wednesday meeting of the Barbican Center committee is shocking-the only problem is that no one can agree on the most shocking part.

Is it the accusations of bullying and racism described by the staff who said that this art center, known for being built on the bomb site, was run by a small group of luxurious white men who knew nothing about the reality of their lives?

Or, as some others believe, the City of London has issued a long list of allegations based on unsubstantiated complaints from a few anonymous employees that might drag Barbican's name into the quagmire?

The legend began in the summer when a group of anonymous former and current staff members, using the name Barbican Stories, collected a catalog of alleged incidents, which they said proved that the venue was institutionally racist. In less than two weeks, Sir Nicholas Kenyon, then head of the organization, will step down in a few months.

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An interim director responsible for fairness, diversity, and inclusion was quickly appointed, and the City of London, which owns the Barbican, asked the law firm Lewis Silkin to “supervise an external review of employees’ racism experiences”.

The review portrays an organization with a huge gap between its many low-paid employees (often people of color on temporary contracts) and the "defensive" white middle-class leadership. The allegations ranged from complaining that the composition of the staff and the scope of production did not “reflect the diversity of the City of London” to “the Barbican staff made assumptions about artists of color, such as all black artists smoking marijuana”.

Lawyers have heard of allegations by staff of “depreciating the achievements of women of color” and “steotypical assumptions about race”.

Another complaint is that the staff are “known as'diversified employment', which shows that people of color will not be able to work in Barbican based on performance alone”.

But it's not just these allegations that upset some people, others have also raised concerns about how the investigation itself works.

Barbican has approximately 350 employees. Forty-eight people (not all of whom are still working in the organization) contacted Lewis Silkin to provide evidence.

Of these 48 people, 13 either decided not to participate or withdrew after testifying. The lawyer acknowledged that "very few people of color" participated, indicating that the final number was about eight, and that more than half of those who provided evidence were senior staff.

The organization that started it all-Barbican Story-handed over a copy of their incident catalog and told the lawyer that it "can point out the perpetrators and those responsible for racism", but has not done so, although it is preparing for the second edition The book that started it all.

A former senior staff member stated that they believed that the law firm’s review "did not represent" the workforce and criticized it for "just uncritically reporting what a few people told them."

But others who believe in these allegations say that the small number of employees involved is the problem-concerns about job security and lack of trust in how information will be used are preventing people from coming forward.

New York City clearly believes it is problematic and describes the investigation as part of the "long journey of cultural change in the Barbican."

The center has announced that it will conduct mandatory training on issues including anti-racism, unconscious prejudice and tolerance. The first to be signed is senior staff, the center’s director of arts and learning, former Tate and BBC’s Will Gompertz Has been promoted hastily to "Joint Interim Managing Director" along with administrator Sandeep Dwesar.

A spokesperson for the City of London Corporation said that Lewis Silkin had conducted a "thorough external investigation" and said that further investigations are ongoing and that "disciplinary actions will be taken where appropriate."

No matter what happens next, next year will be a very unhappy birthday.

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