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Week in Review: Smithsonian Gets $5 Million to Archive Underrepresented Artists, and MacDowell Colony Honors James Baldwin
Legendary drag queen Divine gets a mural in Baltimore, a fire at Dia:Beacon damages a $1 million painting, and more.
Jasmine Weber
Jasmine Weber is an artist, writer, and former news editor at Hyperallergic.
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Art Movements
Simone Leigh was awarded the Guggenheim's Hugo Boss Prize, Artadia launched a grant for immigrant and refugee artists in Houston, and more.
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Tania Bruguera Shows Solidarity for Photographer Shahidul Alam at Tate Modern
Bruguera, who has spent time detained in Cuba for her political outspokenness, organized the intervention at the Tate Modern as part of her 10,143,210 exhibition responding to the international refugee crisis.
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NYC Allocates $198.4M for Largest Ever Cultural Budget
The unprecedented allocation includes $43.9 million for cultural programming, a 40% increase from 2014.
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Russia Strengthens Saudi Ties with Offer of a Kandinsky Exhibition, while Prominent Architects Bow Out of $500B Saudi Megacity
Saudi Arabia's financial prominence in the arts has been under active evaluation in the weeks following journalist Jamal Khashoggi's disappearance.
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A Tribute to Christine Blasey Ford Appears at the Entrance of Yale Law School
"Indelible in the hippocampus is the laughter … ”
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Doctors in Quebec Will Soon Prescribe Museum Visits as Medicine
The pilot program employs art to relieve a variety of physical and mental illnesses.
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Week in Review: Vatican Vows to Find Missing Caravaggio, and San Manuel Band of Mission Indians Bestows Historic Gift
Also, a Sotheby's auction is entangled in an identity theft scandal, and Larry Gagosian is sued over $13 million in unfinished Koons sculptures.
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Several Major New York Art Institutions Step Away from Saudi-Funded Initiatives
The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Brooklyn Museum have chosen to decline funding from the Saudi Misk Institue, and Columbia University has put its event with the Institute on pause.
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Art Movements
Filmmaker Clément Cogitore has won the Prix Marcel Duchamp, painter Lynette Yiadom-Boakye has won the Carnegie Prize, and more.
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Major Art Institutions Navigate Ties to Saudi Arabia After Disappearance of Journalist [UPDATED]
The Smithsonian, Sotheby's, and landmark institutions across NYC are under pressure to address their financial connections to the Saudi Arabian government in the wake of the suspected murder of Jamal Khashoggi.
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A Prankster Put Googly Eyes on a US Revolutionary War Monument
"Who did this?!" the City of Savannah, Georgia decried on its Facebook page, to the amusement of thousands of commenters.