Jasmine Weber is an artist, writer, and former news editor at Hyperallergic.
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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.
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Also, Russia will pay Pussy Riot $43,500, Anish Kapoor wins a legal battle against the NRA, and more.
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Charlotte Prodger wins the 2018 Turner Prize, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures won $250,000 from Sotheby's to stage an exhibition on Black cinema, and more.
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Cuban artists were arrested after planning a sit-in at the Cuban Ministry of Culture to protest Decree 349, which puts in place unprecedented censorship of the arts and will take effect December 7.
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In August, student activists toppled the "Silent Sam" Confederate monument on UNC's campus. Yesterday, the university chancellor introduced a proposal to reinstall the statue.
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"Even as we are idealistic and missionary in our belief in artists — as established by our founder Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney — the Whitney is first and foremost a museum. It cannot right all the ills of an unjust world, nor is that its role. Yet, I contend that the Whitney has a critical and urgen
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Parallel to today's protest at the RISD Museum, organizers from Decolonize This Place gathered at the Brooklyn Museum to decry stolen objects in the Brooklyn Museum's collection.
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Also, Indigenous artifacts are pulled from auction in Boston following protests, a famous stretch of Berlin Wall is saved from developers, and more.
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Starting January 5, the Louvre will offer free admission on one Saturday night every month, to "democratise" its patronage.
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Francis Outred resigned as Christie’s Head of Postwar Art, Krista Clark and William Downs won the 2018 Atlanta Artadia Award, and more.