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Week in Review: Artists Confront MoMA PS1 Trustees; Museum Director Pushed Out After Harassment Allegations
Also, over 100 artists will contribute to a benefit exhibition foregrounding the experiences of detained children, and more.
Jasmine Weber
Jasmine Weber is an artist, writer, and former news editor at Hyperallergic.
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Week in Review: Trump Threatens Iran's Cultural Heritage, Workers at the Shed Petition to Unionize
Also, Amanda Schmitt’s lawsuit against Artforum moves forward, Paris Musées is now offering 100,000 digital reproductions of artworks online, and more.
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A Previously Unseen Side of Betye Saar
At the Museum of Modern Art, spending time with Saar’s early inner self revealed a great deal about her trajectory into genius.
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Week in Review: Hong Kongers Circulate Radical Christmas Cards; Mexico City Museum Workers Protest Wage Delays
Also, Hawai'i's Bishop Museum will eliminate single-use plastic on its campus, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver partnered with a glasses company that lets color-blind patients see in full color, and more.
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In Richmond, Tracing the “Great Force” of American Racism
Taking a cue from James Baldwin, an exhibition considers the way that American racism moves forward — from the arrival of the first ship carrying enslaved Africans to the insidious ways it has trickled through the capillaries of American culture.
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Week in Review: Climate Strike During Art Basel Miami Beach; Harvard Students Protest Sackler Museum
Also, a California church mounted a nativity scene that comments on US–Mexico border detentions, "classic blue" is Pantone's color of 2020, and more.
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Week in Review: Tufts Ditches Sackler Name, French Museum Close as Protests Rage
Also, fired Marciano Art Foundation employees protested Guess stores on Black Friday, a stolen Willem de Kooning painting worth an estimated $100,000,000 has been recovered, and more.
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Basking in Sam Gilliam's Endless Iterations
The artist — still brilliant and brimming with artistic talent — will celebrate his 86th birthday on November 30.
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Week in Review: MOCA Employees Unionize; Thieves Steal $1.1 Billion Worth of 18th-century Jewels
Also, protests about women’s rights take center stage in Mexico, a 3D-scanned bust of Nefertiti has entered the public domain, and more.
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A Creative Workshop to Affirm and Empower Black Girls and Women
The Beautiful Project, a North Carolina-based collective, is hosting a creative workshop at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to forge community between Black girls and women through photography and writing.
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Week in Review: PAIN Sackler Protests in London, An Exhibition of Political Art Censored in China
Also, LA's Museum of Contemporary Art will have free admission starting January 11, the Baltimore Museum of Art will only acquire artworks by women in 2020, and more.
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Week in Review: Jeff Koons's "Bouquet of Tulips," Guerrilla Girls Target MoMA Trustees
Also, a Hyperallergic reporter spent a night with Yayoi Kusama's biggest fans, Marciano Art Foundation employees protest the abrupt closure of the institution, and more.