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After 4,300 Books Were Banned in Kuwait, an Artist Installs a Cemetery of Banned Books
Mohammad Sharaf installed 200 headstones for the censored titles in a plot of land beside Kuwait’s Annual Book Fair.
Jasmine Weber
Jasmine Weber is an artist, writer, and former news editor at Hyperallergic.
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Week in Review: David Hockney is the Most Expensive Living Artist, Glenn Lowry Extends MoMA Directorship
Leon and Debra Black will donate $40 million to MoMA's expansion, MASS MoCA extends Sol LeWitt exhibition until 2043, and more.
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Art Movements
Steven Kasher Gallery will close, Hilton Als received the Langston Hughes Medal from The City College of New York, and more.
Opinion
Discerning Photography's White Gaze
The three top winners of the prestigious Taylor Wessing Prize depict people of color, photographed by white photographers.
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Easter Islanders Are Visiting British Museum to Request Repatriation of Ancestral Heritage
"For us [the statue] is a brother; but for them it is a souvenir or an attraction,” said a member of the Easter Island development commission, Anakena Manutomatoma.
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Week in Review: Iranian Art Market Suffers After Oil Sanctions, Winnipeg Gallery Launches Indigenous Biennial
Also, Björk is planning her “most elaborate stage concert yet," the Souls Grown Deep Foundation sell a Thornton Dial Painting to fund their paid internship program, and more.
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Bangladeshi Photojournalist, Shahidul Alam, Granted Bail After 102 Days in Detention
Alam's lawyer told Al Jazeera she hopes the 63-year-old artist will be released by Sunday.
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Art Movements
Sondra Perry received the 2018 Nam June Paik award, Njideka Akunyili Crosby is now represented by David Zwirner in collaboration with Victoria Miro, Marvel legend Stan Lee passed away, and more.
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New York Public Library Offers Ties and Briefcases You Can Check Out for Job Interviews
A librarian at the Riverside NYPL branch, Michelle Lee, spearheaded a program to loan ties, briefcases, and handbags after teaching seminars about job-hunting to NYC teenagers.
Art
A Portrait of Black Mental Health in Hues of Black and Blue
Influenced by Picasso’s Blue Period, Malik Roberts explores the repercussions of generational poverty, racism, and violence in Black communities using monochromatic hues.
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Week in Review: Gallerists Fined $15M for Art Scam, and Kremlin Museum Investigates Stolen Malevich
Also, a Velásquez is authenticated at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Kerry James Marshall swears off public artwork after Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s misstep, and more.
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Art Movements
Cannupa Hanska Luger is awarded the inaugural Burke Prize for contemporary craft, Pyer Moss wins the 2018 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund, and more.