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New York Times Art Critic Roberta Smith Retiring After 32 Years
She was appointed co-chief art critic in 2011, becoming the first woman at the paper to hold the title.
Valentina Di Liscia
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MoMA Workers Urge Museum to Address Israel’s Attacks on Palestine
“We respectfully urge our institution to consider the impact of its silence,” reads the workers’ open letter.
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MoMA Shutters as 500+ Protesters Infiltrate Atrium in Support of Palestine
Organizers unveiled a banner that read “MoMA Trustees Fund Genocide, Apartheid, and Settler Colonialism.”
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Art Collector Resigns From Boards After Claims of Inciting Violence at Palestine Protest
Scott Lorinsky stepped down as trustee of CCS Bard and Visual AIDS in the wake of allegations that he instructed drivers to ram into pro-Palestine demonstrators.
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Artists Protest Museum's Cancellation of Michael Fried-Inspired Show
In a letter to the Santa Barbara Museum of Art's board, a group of artists included in the nixed exhibition denounce the “outrageous” termination of the show’s curator, Eik Kahng.
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Artists “Stunned” After Museum Nixes Reimagined Michael Fried Show
The Santa Barbara Museum of Art canceled Three American Painters: Then and Now months before the opening and terminated its chief curator.
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Man Arrested in Connection With Death of Art Dealer Brent Sikkema
Sikkema's body was discovered earlier this week in his Rio de Janeiro residence.
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Security Footage Shows Possible Suspect in Brent Sikkema Death
In videos from the early hours of Sunday morning, a man is seen entering Sikkema’s building before driving away.
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Art Dealer Brent Sikkema Found Dead in Brazil
According to news reports, his body was found with stab wounds in his residence in Rio de Janeiro.
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Artists Pledge to Boycott German Institutions Over Stifling of Pro-Palestine Speech
Hundreds of cultural figures have decried the nation’s “McCarthyist policies” equating criticism of the Israeli government with antisemitism.
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Art Collectors and Patrons Named in Unsealed Epstein Documents
Among those mentioned are Thomas Pritzker, former chairman of the Art Institute of Chicago, and MoMA trustee Glenn Dubin.
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The Wildest Art Stories of 2023
Extraordinary discoveries, rogue tourists, and moments of institutional failure and abuse of power defined a topsy-turvy year in visual culture.