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Week in Review: Baltimore Museum Halts Controversial Sale; Artist Projects Encourage Voter Turnout
Also, a postponed Philip Guston retrospective was advanced to 2022 instead of 2024, and more.
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Jasmine Weber is an artist, writer, and former news editor at Hyperallergic.
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Week in Review: NYU Will Remove Sackler Name; Deana Lawson Awarded Hugo Boss Prize
Also, the climate activist group BP or not BP? staged an anti-oil demonstration at the British Museum in solidarity with Indigenous communities in the arctic, and more.
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Week in Review: Simone Leigh to Represent US in Venice Biennale; SF Offers Artist COVID-19 Stipend
Also, over 150 artists have amplified demands for reform at the New Orleans Museum of Art following accusations of bigotry and discrimination, and more.
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Activists Fined After Anti-colonial Protest at Quai Branly Museum
Four activists were fined for their live-streamed protest at the Paris museum, in which Mwazulu Diyabanza removed a 19th-century funerary post from its display.
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Week in Review: Artists Mourn COVID-19 Deaths; Guggenheim Curator Resigns Amid Controversy
Also, a major Armenian archaeological site is threatened by the outbreak of violence by Azerbaijan, and more.
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Fred Moten, Larissa FastHorse, and Ralph Lemon Among 2020 MacArthur “Genius” Fellows
Author NK Jemisin and documentarian Nanfu Wang were also among the awardees of the $625,000 prize from the MacArthur Foundation.
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Week in Review: Whitney Biennial Postponed to 2022; Guggenheim Union Protests at Reopening
Also, London’s Royal Academy of Arts is considering selling a Michelangelo relief to protect 150 jobs, and more.
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Week in Review: Artist Commemorates Ruth Bader Ginsburg; NY Gets a Climate Clock
Also, an anonymous collector donated Maurizio Cattelan’s viral banana sculpture to the Guggenheim Museum, and more.
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Rabkin Foundation Awards $20K Grants to Nine Arts Journals
The Brooklyn Rail, Burnaway, and Arts.Black are among the publications supported by the award.
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Week in Review: Guggenheim Employees Demand Executive Resignations; Brooklyn Museum Employees Allege Staff Mistreatment
Also, Bill Arning, former director of the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, was accused of sexual harassment online, and more.
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Week in Review: Biden and Harris’s Stance on the Arts; Met Museum’s First Curator of Native American Art
Also, the Everson Museum of Art will sell its prized Jackson Pollock to buy works by underrepresented artists, and more.
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Week in Review: Art Basel Miami Beach Canceled, Banksy Funds a Migrant Rescue Boat
Also, Black Panther actor Chadwick Boseman died at 43, and more.