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MoMA’s Leon Black Problem and Cuban Artists Under Siege

Hyperallergic’s news team gets together to go over the highlights of our coverage from the past week.

by Hrag Vartanian February 7, 2021March 31, 2021

Clockwise from top left, the cover of PEN America's "Safety Guide for Artists," an image of a protest at the Museum of Modern Art in February 2017, a papyrus that was recently returned by the Museum of the Bible to Egypt, and members of the 27N Movement in Cuba (images via PEN America, Hrag Vartanian/Hyperallergic, the Museum of the Bible, Reynier Leyva Novo, courtesy of 27N Movement)

This week’s headlines were dominated by the news that the Museum of Modern Art will not remove billionaire Leon Black from their board. Hyperallergic’s Jasmine Weber and Valentina Di Liscia join me to talk about this along with PEN America’s new handbook for persecuted artists, Mexico’s request that Christie’s auction house halt its sale of pre-Hispanic objects, the return of looted artifacts by the Museum of the Bible to Iraq and Egypt, and how some of the important quilters of Gee’s Bend now have Etsy shops.

The music for this episode is Darkstar’s “Jam” courtesy of Warp Records.

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Hrag Vartanian

Hrag Vartanian is editor-in-chief and co-founder of Hyperallergic. You can follow him at @hragv. More by Hrag Vartanian