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Guide
Thanks in part to its virtual format, this year’s fair is the largest event yet, and the most international. Check out a slate of exhibitors you won’t want to miss.
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Alumni and students are calling for Dartmouth to rename the Black Family Visual Arts Center following revelations of Black’s financial ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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A proposed amendment could make it illegal to put up signs offering historical context on the site of Confederate statues and other monuments.
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Thousands called for Charles L. Venable’s removal after the museum posted a job listing which mentioned “maintaining the Museum’s traditional, core, white art audience.”
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An offensive job description seeking a new director for the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields drew ire from artists, IMA patrons, and former and current museum workers.
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In The Fortune of Having Been There, Otero’s paintings seduce us with the whole as well as their individual parts.
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The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation has given seven institutions a collective $1.6 million to digitize Indigenous oral histories and make them widely available, especially to Native communities.
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Movers and Shakers' new app allows you to insert monumental figures of under-recognized icons like Shirley Chisholm and Toussaint Louverture into public spaces.
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More than 50 artists have submitted drawings for a coloring book that will help fund a permanent home for the new art school.
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The bipartisan group of politicians urges the release of Denis Solís, a rapper arbitrarily detained last year, and expresses solidarity with the San Isidro Movement artist-activist collective.
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The beads, located in three Indigenous sites in Alaska, date to the mid-to-late 15th century, prior to Columbus's landfall.
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The museum has been criticized for its sweeping layoffs and furloughs during the coronavirus pandemic and accused of fostering a culture of racism and structural inequities.