“Once we remove the remaining monuments, we can officially say that we were the former capital of the confederacy,” said Stoney in today’s briefing.
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What the Art World Is Cooking
This week includes recipes for pasta with slow cooked chickpeas and flan with dulce de leche from curators Laura Raicovich and Aimé Iglesias Lukin, and more.
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Amid Mass Furloughs, Philadelphia Museum of Art Workers Schedule Union Election
News of the election follows PMA’s announcement that it would cut over 20% of its workforce via furloughs and voluntary separation agreements.
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Teenager Who Threw Child From Tate Modern Balcony Is Sentenced to 15 Years
A British 18-year-old pleaded guilty to one count of attempted murder and admitted to premeditating the attack.
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Pennsylvania Art School Asks Faculty to Keep Professional Affiliation Separate From Activism
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A Block in Brooklyn Gets a Black Lives Matter Mural
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Community Calls on ICP to Set Ethical Guidelines for Protest Photography
Noah Morrison, founding member of ICP Center Blackness Now, says the International Center of Photography’s response to their efforts has been superficial.
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A Pristine 16th-Century Reproduction of the “Last Supper” Has Been Digitized
Leonardo da Vinci’s painting of the “Last Supper” has faded and cracked over time, but an accurate reproduction likely made by one of his pupils reveals details you may have missed.
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Critics Question Restaging of Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s Fortune Cookie Installations During Pandemic
Galleries David Zwirner and Andrea Rosen asked 1,000 participants to recreate a work consisting of a pile of fortune cookies. But staging the work with little context, amid a global pandemic and mounting anti-Asian sentiment, struck some as poorly thought-out.
