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Two photographers receive Carmignac Photojournalism Award to carry out a documentarian expedition of the Arctic, the Chinese galleries at the Philadelphia Museum of Art have reopened, and more.
Jasmine Weber
Jasmine Weber is an artist, writer, and former news editor at Hyperallergic.
Books
How W.E.B. Du Bois Meticulously Visualized 20th-Century Black America
The Pan-African scholar's data visualizations about Black American progress after Emancipation have been compiled, for the first time, as a book.
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The Watercolour World Documents the Planet Before Photography
The initiative has already digitized 80,000 images, categorized and made searchable to the public.
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Week in Review: Finding Leonardo’s Fingerprint, Iraq’s Mosul Museum Reopens
Also, Charline von Heyl exhibition extended after government shutdown, Birmingham Civil Rights Institute has apologized to Dr. Angela Y. Davis and more.
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Art Movements
Conceptual artist Susan Hiller has passed away, Sara Raza will join the Rubin Museum of Art as a guest curator, and more.
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Ai Weiwei Slams US for "Complicity" in China's Arrest of Two Canadian Citizens
The artist called the United States a "willing partner" in China's "monstrous regime."
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El Museo del Barrio Cancels Alejandro Jodorowsky Retrospective In Light of 1970s Rape Admission
Jodorowsky admitted to sexually violating an actress while producing his 1970 film El Topo.
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Rashid Johnson's Native Son Adaptation Acquired by HBO Ahead of Sundance Premiere
This adaptation of Richard Wright's 1940 novel Native Son is the visual artist's first feature film.
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Week in Review: British Museum Hires Curators to Surveil Looted Objects, Museum Guard Pleads to End Shutdown
Also, a prankster posted a scathing proposal for a Trump Presidential Library at Jared Kushner's new hotel, a New Jersey town received $1 million to turn illegal dumping sites into public art spaces, and more.
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New Museum Staffers Vote to Unionize
After announcing their plans to organize a union earlier this month, this afternoon, the New Museum union received 38 yes votes against 8 no votes.
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Art Movements
Howardena Pindell awarded a lifetime achievement award by the College Art Association, Mika Rottenberg is now represented by Hauser & Wirth, and more.
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Former Artforum Employee Will Appeal Defamation Case Against Publication and Knight Landesman
Earlier this month, a New York State Supreme Court judge dismissed Amanda Schmitt's lawsuit against Knight Landesman, co-owner and former publisher of Artforum magazine.