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Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts Is Lifting Its Mask Requirement
Beginning May 29, neither visitors nor staff will be required to wear a face covering at the Boston museum, in alignment with a statewide mask ordinance.
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Week in Review: Artists Denounce MoMA Trustees' Ties to Israeli Apartheid; Brooklyn Museum Workers Unionize
Also, activists crashed the British Museum’s reopening weekend to protest Big Oil sponsorship, and more.
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Julie Mehretu Painting Could Raise $4M for Mass Incarceration Reform
“It is way past time for a collective reimagining of crime and punishment as we know it,” the artist said.
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Sign Your Name to Ensure New Latino Culture Museum Is Built on the National Mall
The public can now add their name to a letter addressed to Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch urging him to enact a plan that ensures the new building gets a proper place on the Mall.
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Brooklyn Museum Workers Move to Unionize
While the museum is often billed as a progressive institution, some workers have spoken out against a starkly different reality behind closed doors.
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Artists and Scholars Sound Alarm on Far-Right Israeli Extremists in Lydda
Over a thousand, including scholars Judith Butler and Angela Davis, have signed a statement in solidarity with the Palestinian city of Lydda in the wake of mounting racist violence.
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Toga-clad Activists Crashed British Museum’s Reopening to Protest Oil Sponsorship
BP or Not BP? activists staged a protest against Big Oil sponsorship at the British Museum and Science Museum this weekend.
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Help Rebuild Notre Dame by Sponsoring a Statue
A stone sculpture of a pelican named Corson is among the dozens of Notre Dame artifacts that you can support.
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Do-It-Yourself Sculptures That Probe the White Savior Narrative
Roberto Visani’s cardboard flat pack statues appropriate and reinterpret famous abolitionist symbols.
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Dozens of LA Arts Nonprofits Receive Over $36M In Post-Pandemic Relief
Nearly three quarters of grantees are founded by, led by, or have a board majority of Black, Latinx, Asian, or Indigenous leaders.
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To Preserve Ancient Mosaics, Experts Are Burying Them Underground
The Getty Conservation Institute has undertaken numerous mosaic reburials in Tunisia, Lebanon, and Cyprus over the years.
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Citing Job Insecurity, Whitney Museum Workers Are Unionizing
Since the start of the pandemic, the Whitney has laid off approximately 20% of its staff.