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Photobook Publisher Steidl in Dire Straits After Threat of Bankruptcy
Though it has resolved recent insolvency proceedings, the German publisher remains shaken by a 50% drop in international sales.
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Isa Farfan is a staff reporter for Hyperallergic. She lives in Brooklyn. Email her at isa@hyperallergic.com.
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Trump Orders Installation of Warning Signs Outside Smithsonian Museum
The administration’s demand comes just days after the director of the National Museum of American History testified before a congressional subcommittee.
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Nvidia CEO Pours $75M Into San Francisco Art Campus
Vanderbilt University's building on the ruins of the California College of the Arts will bear the billionaire's name
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Protesters Decry Chinatown Museum’s Acceptance of “Jail Money” at Town Hall
Leaders of New York’s Museum of Chinese failed to persuade protesters that a $35 million grant from the city was not tied to the construction of a borough jail.
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Artists Sue NYC Gallery The Hole for Nonpayment
The suit filed by Daniel Um and Nastaran Shahbazi concerns nearly $50,000 in payments allegedly owed to the artists.
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The Art Institute of Chicago to Cut Its Entire Custodial Staff
The museum's union called the plan to outsource in-house custodial work to a third-party vendor a "devastating and unconscionable injustice."
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Trump Whitewashes George Washington’s Slavery History in New Display
The panels installed by the administration in Philadelphia come just six months after Trump ordered the removal of the outdoor exhibition "Freedom and Slavery in the Making of a New Nation."
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Trump Shrinks Utah National Monuments by 90%
The administration’s cuts to the Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears national monuments include sacred Indigenous lands and archaeologically rich sites.
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Cape Town Gallery Accused of Withholding Pay and Artworks
An artist who left SMAC Gallery late last year took to social media with claims of delayed payments and missing works.
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Former High Museum Executive Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement
According to court filings, Brady Lum stole more than $600,000 from the Atlanta institution during his nearly seven-year tenure.
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"Pam the Bird" Graffiti Stirs Controversy in Melbourne
Days after police arrested the graffiti artist who tagged a prominent bridge tower with a giant bird, some are calling on the city to preserve the work.
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Legionella Bacteria Found in Cooling Tower at NYC Guggenheim
A spokesperson said there was no present danger to the public at the museum, which is located in one of three zip codes where people have contracted Legionnaires’ disease.