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Week in Review: $650M LACMA Redesign Approved, #DontMuteDC Embraces Go-Go Music
Also, the Jewish Museum in Berlin will no longer accept money from the Sacklers, Saatchi Gallery is now a nonprofit, and more.
Jasmine Weber
Jasmine Weber is an artist, writer, and former news editor at Hyperallergic.
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Art Movements
Roberta Smith was bestowed the inaugural lifetime achievement award by the Rabkin Foundation, Nathaniel Mary Quinn is now represented by Gagosian, and more.
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Artist Coco Fusco Denied Entry Into Cuba Ahead of Havana Biennial
"I am sure that this is due to my writings on Cuban art and cultural politics, and my steadfast support for the artists-led movement in Cuba against Decree 349," the artist wrote in a statement today.
Art
A Monumental Cloth That Tells a New Truth About the US Civil War
Contemporary artist Sonya Clark asks, “Who said monuments have to be steel?”
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Artists and Drug Policy Activists Protest FDA’s Role in Opioid Crisis
Nan Goldin was among the artist-activists who gathered in Washington, DC to demand the FDA address the "public health impact of the opioid crisis."
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Week in Review: Christo Will Wrap the Arc de Triomphe
Also, the Sacklers have filed a motion to dismiss a Massachussetts lawsuit against them, the French government will open an office to restitute Nazi-looted art, and more.
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Art Movements
Artist Agnès Varda passed away, Gareth Nyandoro is now represented by Van Doren Waxter, and more.
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Memorial to Enslaved People Vandalized with Racist Language and Urine at the University of North Carolina
The sculpture, created by Do Ho Suh in 2005, stands close to the former site of "Silent Sam," a Confederate monument toppled by student activists this summer.
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Week in Review: MoMA PS1 Settles Maternal Discrimination Claim, LACMA Redesign Downsized
Also, the popular Soul of a Nation exhibition will have an unexpected stop in San Francisco, the Roma cinematographer is selling photographs to benefit domestic workers in Mexico, and more.
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New York State Launches Opioid Lawsuit, Naming Sacklers and Purdue Pharma
The NY Attorney General filed the updated lawsuit, which calls the Sackler family’s art philanthropy a tactic to “whitewash their decades-long success in profiting at New Yorkers’ expense.”
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Art Movements
Thomas J. Lax was appointed media and performance curator at the Museum of Modern Art, Anita Hill will receive the PEN Courage Award, and more.
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Free Stock Photo Database Expands Trans and Non-Binary Representation in Media
Broadly has launched a rich database of 180 stock images, photographed by Zackary Drucker, featuring 15 trans and non-binary models.