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Lonnie G. Bunch III will be the next secretary in the Smithsonian, Knox Martin is now represented by Hollis Taggart, and more.
Jasmine Weber
Jasmine Weber is an artist, writer, and former news editor at Hyperallergic.
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After Students Report Racist Incidents, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts Bans Two Patrons and Plans Unconscious Bias Training
After middle school students and faculty reported four racist encounters at the museum, the institution launched an investigation into the claims, including reports that the students were profiled by security guards.
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Week in Review: Paris Will Get a 100-Acre Park, Democrats Propose Increased Budgets for NEA and NEH
Also, Sotheby's will be the first international auction house to offer Indigenous Australian art outside of Australia or Europe, the Prado Museum is putting together a "disaster plan," and more.
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Middle Schoolers Reported Racism from Staff and Patrons During a School Trip to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts
The museum has issued an apology for the "range of challenging and unacceptable experiences that made them feel unwelcome" and has launched an investigation.
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This Summer, Public Benefits Recipients Can Visit San Francisco Museums for Free
From June 1 to September 2, San Francisco residents who are EBT or Medi-Cal cardholders will receive free admission to over 15 of the city's museums and cultural institutions.
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Cheng Ran and Cameron Rowland are the inaugural winners of the Nomura Emerging Artist Award, legendary Modernist architect IM Pei passed away, and more.
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After a Protest at the 2019 Whitney Biennial Opening, Activists March to Warren Kanders's Townhouse
One protestor promised, “If you take peace from the people, we take peace from you.”
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Week in Review: Turmoil with Robert Indiana’s Estate Continues, Brazil’s National Museum Needs Funds
Also, Machu Picchu is revising its rules to reduce deterioration of the Incan citadel, David Adjaye will design the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art in New Delhi, and more.
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Indigenous Womxn’s Collective Stages Protest Inside 2019 Whitney Biennial
"Indigenous people and other people of color are violently under attack by Warren Kanders’ manufactured weapons of terrorism,” the protesters said in a statement.
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The Lithuanian pavilion was also awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale, Meleko Mokgosi will take on a role as a professor at the Yale School of Art, and more.
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The Metropolitan Museum Will Suspend Accepting Gifts from Sackler Family
The American Museum of Natural History also confirmed that it has stopped taking donations from the Sacklers associated with Purdue Pharma.
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How a 19th-Century Photographic Technique Erased a Māori Tradition
Michael Bradley revisits the wet plate photography technique that had removed Indigenous tattoo traditions from photographic records.