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Kate Gill

Kate Gill is a writer, editor, and filmmaker based in Brooklyn.

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Hart Island Cemetery Will Be Reincarnated as a Public Space

Avatar photo by Kate Gill December 25, 2019January 2, 2020

Historically, the island — the world’s largest tax-funded cemetery — has operated under the purview of the Department of Corrections, which pays Rikers Island inmates $1 an hour to handle the area’s many bodies.

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Chile’s Art World Joins Massive Santiago Protests

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Kate Gill and Jasmine Weber October 30, 2019October 30, 2019

The Contemporary Art Fair of Chile has been postponed, galleries are temporarily shuttering, and an artist-led organization is crowdfunding for legal and medical aid for protesters.

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In Mark Zuckerberg’s World, “Provenance” Means Nothing

Avatar photo by Kate Gill October 29, 2019

The tech entrepreneur’s use of the word provenance serves to erase its weighty history as an art historical term — and Facebook’s complicity in spreading “fake news.”

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Amazon Facial Recognition Falsely Links 27 Athletes to Mugshots in ACLU Study

Avatar photo by Kate Gill October 28, 2019October 29, 2019

Massachusetts’s American Civil Liberties Union chapter revealed Amazon’s “Rekognition” technology falsely linked the faces of 27 professional athletes in New England to mugshots in a criminal database.

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Monument to Seneca Village Family Rushed and Historically Inaccurate, Experts Say

Avatar photo by Kate Gill October 23, 2019October 23, 2019

The monument to the Lyons family from the historic 19th-century village of mostly Black residents will be placed nearly 20 blocks uptown from its original location in Central Park.

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Instagram Held a Private Meeting With Artists About Its Nudity Policies

Avatar photo by Kate Gill October 22, 2019October 23, 2019

Just hours later, ironically, one of the participating artists, Micol Hebron, had her account suspended for posting a topless photo outside of Instagram headquarters.

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A Hollywood Executive Sues Dealer for $10M Over Alleged Mark Rothko Forgery

Avatar photo by Kate Gill October 21, 2019October 21, 2019

Ron Meyer bought the work for $900,000 in 2001 from Susan Seidel. It hung in his home for nearly two decades, when he began to suspect the work was a fake.

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Artist Pravin Mishra Files Defamation Lawsuit Against His Sexual Assault Accuser in India

Avatar photo by Kate Gill October 18, 2019February 6, 2020

Pravin Mishra has filed civil defamation charges against an independent journalist, following a number of similar suits as the #MeToo movement grows in India.

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NYC Mayor De Blasio and Governor Cuomo Face Off Over Mother Cabrini Statue

Avatar photo by Kate Gill October 16, 2019October 16, 2019

The rivalry between the political opponents was cemented after Cuomo announced he would bypass the mayor and fund the polarizing Mother Cabrini statue with state money.

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Thief Steals Dalí Print in Under a Minute

Avatar photo by Kate Gill October 15, 2019

An audacious thief managed to snatch a Salvador Dalí etching off an easel at a San Francisco art gallery.

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UK Cultural Institutions Get a Major £250 Million Boost

Avatar photo by Kate Gill October 15, 2019October 17, 2019

The development fund for cultural institutions — including libraries, museums, and “creative industries” — is the government’s biggest-ever investment in the cultural sector.

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In South Africa, Activists Campaign to Remove Artwork by Convicted Murderer of a Sex Worker

Avatar photo by Kate Gill October 9, 2019

In a public gesture of solidarity, artist Candice Breitz asked that her video installation, on view in a separate exhibition at the same art center, be removed and replaced by a #SayHerName sign.

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