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Pérez Art Museum Miami Offers Free Admission and Part-Time Work to Furloughed Workers
The initiative will last until the government shutdown — which is now in its third week — is over.
Jasmine Weber
Jasmine Weber is an artist, writer, and former news editor at Hyperallergic.
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Week in Review: Italy Won't Send Leonardos to the Louvre, Shredded Banksy Heads to Exhibition
Also, curators at the British Museum realized an object they displayed as a vase was actually a Sumerian weapon, how art dealer Mary Boone hopes to avoid jail time after pleading guilty to tax fraud, and more.
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El Museo del Barrio Rescinds Philanthropy Award for Rightwing German Princess
After Latinx scholars voiced their disturbance that the museum would honor Princess Gloria Von Thurn und Taxis, a friend to Steve Bannon, El Museo walked back its plan with little explanation.
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Art Movements
Nikolaus Gansterer was awarded the MAC International prize, David Voyles was appointed Deputy Director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and more.
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Over 7.36 Million People Visited the Metropolitan Museum in 2018
Despite the museum's updated ticket policy undoing its universal pay-what-you-wish model, well-received exhibitions like Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination proved fruitful.
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NY Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Alleging Defamation by Artforum Co-owner Accused of Sexual Misconduct
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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Week in Review: Basquiat Drew on Paintings with Invisible Ink, National Gallery Closes for Gov't Shutdown
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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Art Movements
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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Week in Review: New Mexico Mayor Donates Year's Salary to Judy Chicago Museum, Researchers Launch Egon Schiele Database
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 Release from Cuban Jail, Tania Bruguera Files Defamation Case Against Government
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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A Kiss in a 1898 Silent Film Is the Earliest Cinematic Depiction of Black Love
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.