Jasmine Weber is an artist, writer, and former news editor at Hyperallergic.
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Amanda Schmitt, a former Artforum employee, accused Landesman of sexual misconduct occurring during and after her career at the magazine. Her claims were backed by eight other women.
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Also, musicians Kendrick Lamar and SZA have settled with an artist who accused them of plagiarism, French antique dealers angered they were not consulted over restitution report, and more.
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New York's American Medium gallery will close, a Polish art collector has opened an experimental art space in a 12th-century monastery in the Swiss Alps, and more.
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Also, a Dutch art dealer's grandson sues the Dutch government to return paintings sold to Nazis under duress, the Eastern Orthodox Church has filed a lawsuit against Princeton University to return stolen manuscripts, and more.
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Vanessa German was awarded the 2018 Don Tyson Prize, Heidi K. Brandow was awarded the third Ucross Fellowship for Native American Visual Artists, and more.
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After months of protesting against Decree 349, a proposed government sanction that would censor the arts, Bruguera will take legal action "against parties who have damaged myself and my family, psychologically, socially and professionally." Lawyers say it is the first legal case of its kind.
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The film, Something Good–Negro Kiss, subverts the corrupt racism imbued in the history of American minstrelsy. The film will join the Library of Congress's National Film Registry for its significance in American culture.
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Also, the Museum of Black Civilizations has opened in Senegal, Sotheby's will host a sale of female Old Masters, and more.
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Anonymous Was a Woman announces the recipients of its 2018 grants, Kameelah Janan Rasheed is an artist-in-residence at the Brooklyn Public Library, and more.
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A coalition of over 5,000 New Yorkers has protested the museum's expansion into Theodore Roosevelt Park, but on Monday, a judge allowed the $383 million project to move forward.
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Numerous Cuban artist-activists were detained for protesting Decree 349, but have been released as the law is reassessed. Cuban Vice Minister of Culture Fernando Rojas tells the Associated Press that more precise regulations will be published in upcoming days, but that “artistic creation is not the
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After Whitney Museum director Adam Weinberg published a letter to the public asserting the museum, "cannot right all the ills of an unjust world," Decolonize This Place organized a December 9 protest in solidarity with Whitney staffers.