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A New Climate Research Library Opens in Brooklyn
The Greenpoint Library & Environmental Education Center was built using funds from a state settlement with ExxonMobil for its devastating oil spill in the neighborhood.
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Artist-Activist Group Criticizes Pantone’s “Period Red”
“How can we think that Period Red can universally represent our menstrual palettes?” asks Cromoactivismo, an Argentine group that mobilizes color in the service of social change.
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Artists Adam Pendleton and Amy Sherald Resign From Baltimore Museum Board Amid Controversy
Pendleton and Sherald join two honorary trustees who have also stepped down from the board, though the artists did not state their objections to a contentious deaccession.
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Responding to Backlash, Baltimore Museum Board Chair Defends Deaccessioning
In a public letter yesterday and in an interview with Hyperallergic, Clair Zamoiski Segal, chair of the board of trustees, addressed criticism of the BMA’s decision to sell three paintings from its collection.
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NYU to Remove Sackler Name Following Pressure From Students and Artist-led Group, P.A.I.N.
The decision comes the day after a settlement between Purdue Pharma and the Justice Department, in which members of the Sackler family will pay $225 million in civil penalties, less than 2% of their estimated net worth.
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Banksy Painting Sells for $10M, Surpassing Its High Estimate
Banksy’s “Show Me The Monet” (2005), a riff on Monet’s paintings of his Japanese bridge in Giverny, has achieved the second-highest price ever paid for a work by the street artist.
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A Jacob Lawrence Painting, Thought Missing for Decades, Was in a NYC Apartment All Along
A recent visitor to the Metropolitan Museum’s current Jacob Lawrence exhibition knew of an artwork by Lawrence in a neighbor’s collection that he suspected might belong to the Struggle series.
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Climate Activists Crash Arctic Exhibition at British Museum to Protest Oil Funding
BP or not BP? staged the demonstration as part of a day of action convened by the Alaskan Indigenous organizations Defend the Sacred AK and Native Movement.
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Award-winning Photographs of Hair-raising Weather Patterns
From a dust storm in Arizona to a blizzard on the Brooklyn Bridge, the Royal Meteorological Society’s annual photography awards display the beauty and power of nature.
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A Dana Schutz Portrait of Trump Just Sold For More Than $711,000
The painting of Trump ominously descending an escalator on the day he announced his presidential campaign was sold by Phillips in London today.
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Mourning the Death of the American Dream
For a new online project in El Museo del Barrio’s Triennial, artist Lizania Cruz wants to know: when and how did the American dream die for you?
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Open Letter Increases Pressure on Baltimore Museum of Art to Cancel Sale of Artworks
Art historian Michael Fried and former BMA director Arnold Lehman signed an open letter sent to the state of Maryland last week, and a former board member has written to the museum’s board.