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Week in Review: Looted Artifacts Returned to Iraq; NYC Mandates Vaccines at Performances

Week in Review is a weekly collection of news, developments, and stirrings in the art world. Subscribe to receive these posts as a weekly newsletter. New York City You will soon need your vaccine card to accessNew York City's indoor performance venues as well as dining and fitness

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This week, how queer sex lives have been reconfigured by the pandemic, dommes are convincing their subs to get vaccinated, carbon offsets are catching fire, and more.

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Week in Review: A Map Tracks Global Surveillance; Artists Decry Cuts at SFMOMA

Also, an impromptu performance at MoMA PS1 challenged the museum's representation of Latinx women, and more.

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Week in Review: Uffizi Gallery Sues Pornhub; Cuban Artists Arrested

Also, protesters demanded the resignation of the Museum of Chinese in America's director, and more.

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Week in Review: Sacklers Temporarily Banned From Naming Institutions; Venice Bans Cruise Ships

Also, activists accuse the Museum of Chinese in America of contributing to gentrification of New York's Chinatown, and more.

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Cruise Ships Officially Banned From Venice

The boats were temporarily prohibited from the lagoon city during the pandemic.

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Sacklers Temporarily Banned From Slapping Name on Art Institutions

Photographer Nan Goldin, founder of advocacy group PAIN, called the temporary ban "appalling."

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Week in Review: NYC Halts Essential Workers Monument; Polish Politicians Target LGBTQ Artist-Activists

Also, artist-activists from Extinction Rebellion were arrested at a protest against media corruption, and more.

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Week in Review: UK Activists Occupy Science Museum; Theodore Roosevelt Controversy Resurfaces

Also, philanthropist MacKenzie Scott will distribute $2.7 billion to 286 organizations, and more.

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Week in Review: 10 Weeks of “Strike MoMA” Conclude; Met Repatriates Two Benin Bronzes

Also, artists are raising funds to benefit a Bethlehem arts center raided by Israeli soldiers, and more.

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Week in Review: The NYC Mayoral Candidate’s Cultural Plans; First-ever NFT Sells at Auction

Also, over 16,000 artists voiced solidarity with Palestine in a “Letter Against Apartheid,” and more.

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Week in Review: Whitney Museum Workers Unionize; Leon Black Accused of Abuse

Also, dozens of artists demanded the release of dissident Cuban artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, and more.