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Week in Review: Marciano Art Foundation Closes After Union Effort, Dread Scott Stages Slave Rebellion Reenactment

Also, Nigeria's first entry into the Academy Awards was disqualified for containing too much English dialogue, goats helped save the Reagan Library from wildfire, and more.

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Week in Review: Keith Haring "Crack Is Wack" Mural Refurbished, Artist Withdraws Work from MoMA PS1

Also, art workers at UOVO lost their union vote by a margin of three votes, 800 musicians have signed an open letter pledging to boycott all Amazon festivals and events, and more.

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Week in Review: Protests Escalate as Museum of Modern Art Reopens, Protest Banners From Downtown Beirut

Also, a bulletproof memorial to Emmett Till was mounted in Mississippi, Instagram held a private meeting with artists about its censorship policies, and more.

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Emmett Till Gets a Bulletproof Memorial

The sign honoring the slain boy is the fourth to be built in just over a decade due to repeated acts of vandalism.

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Week in Review: Hundreds March in Anti-Columbus Day Tour, Fatal Accident at the Brooklyn Museum

Also, the Museum of the Bible will return allegedly stolen biblical fragments, the Brooklyn Museum is trying to sell a Francis Bacon painting that the artist wanted destroyed, and more.

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Week in Review: Die-In at Purdue Bankruptcy Hearing, Artists Demand MoMA Divest From Private Prisons

Also, three members of Desert X’s board of directors stepped down after it announced a partnership with Saudi Arabia, an artist was arrested while selling art in Washington Square Park, and more.

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PAIN Sackler Activists Throw "Blood Money" and Stage Die-in Outside Purdue Pharma's Bankruptcy Hearing

“We’re not going to stop until they personally face charges,” Nan Goldin, founder of PAIN Sackler, declared.

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Week in Review: India's #MeToo Movement, New Museum Union Signs Contract

Also, over 50 protestors gathered outside the Ford Foundation’s Manhattan headquarters, and Brooklyn art nonprofit BRIC has awarded 10 under-recognized New York-based artists $10,000 each.

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Art Workers Condemn Ruling Censoring Sexual Assault Allegations Against Subodh Gupta

Dozens call the court order to remove the allegations from Instagram “an outright move to silence the survivors and gag the platform that gave them a voice while protecting their identities.”

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Sexual Harassment Allegations Against Artist Subodh Gupta to Be Wiped From Instagram and Google, Delhi High Court Orders

The court also ordered that Facebook, which owns Instagram, reveal the owner of Scene and Herd, an anonymous Instagram account responsible for sparking a #MeToo movement in India's arts community.

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In Times Square, Kehinde Wiley Unveils a Massive Monument to Black Identity

Wiley is contributing his own public monument to American history, which will later join 10 Confederate sculptures in Richmond, Virginia.

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Week in Review: Protests Against Ford Foundation Ramp Up; New Museum Protest Shut Down in the Bronx

Also, the 2019 MacArthur “Genius” grants have been announced, a $6.5 million Cimabue painting was discovered, and more.