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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.
Jasmine Weber
Jasmine Weber is an artist, writer, and former news editor at Hyperallergic.
Art
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.
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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.