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Orlando Museum Leaders Resign Amid Fake Basquiats Scandal
The museum's interim director and board chair both left their posts in one week.
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Myanmar Junta Detains Artist-Activist Htein Lin
The artist's wife, former British ambassador Vicky Bowman, was also detained amid a crackdown on pro-democracy activists.
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Carefully Worded Definition of “Museum” Eschews Neutrality
After months of deliberations, and a failed attempt at a more politicized version in 2019, the International Council of Museums (ICOM) has finally updated its definition of a museum.
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Madison Museum Apologizes to Black Artist but Rejects Racism Allegations
Lilada Gee was verbally attacked by a former employee of an adjoining arts center and her work in the 2022 Wisconsin Triennial was damaged by visitors.
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Citing "Institutional Racist Violence," Half of the Wisconsin Triennial Artists Withdraw Their Work
The artists accused the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, which organizes the triennial, of "shameful mistreatment of the Black artists, contractors, and staffers throughout the exhibition."
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Noguchi Museum Is Opening the Artist’s Studio to Visitors
The studio of the mid-century sculptor, located across from his eponymous museum in Long Island City, New York, received $4.5 million for its planned restoration and renovation.
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Orlando Museum of Art Is “Re-Evaluating All Exhibitions” Amid FBI Raid Fallout
A task force is attempting damage control as the museum continues to face dire consequences for displaying a group of fake Jean-Michel Basquiat paintings.
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Climate Protesters Glue Themselves to Vatican Masterpiece
Two activists from the group Ultima Generazione glued their hands to the base of the ancient Roman statue “Laocoön and His Sons,” dubbed as a “prototypical icon of human agony.”
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Who Gets to Enjoy Green Spaces in NYC?
Artist Mona Chalabi’s site-specific installation at the entrance to the Brooklyn Museum foregrounds the importance of urban vegetation and its inequities.
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Three Artists Withdraw From Berlin Biennale Over "Commodification" of Iraqi Suffering
"Our bodies are not that cheap,” said one Iraqi artist who signed an open letter to the biennale's curators.
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MASS MoCA Workers Plan One-Day Strike to Protest "Lowball" Wages
The union seeks a minimum wage of $20 by the end of 2024; the museum offered only $16.
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Canadian Artists May Soon Receive Royalties for Resold Works
Advocacy groups are pushing for a 5% royalty in resales, which would pertain even after the artist dies, in which case the funds would go to their estate.