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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
Alumni, students, and members of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts community, including Njideka Akunyili Crosby and Didier William, have signed letters of concern condemning the college’s non-affiliation policies.
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A Block in Brooklyn Gets a Black Lives Matter Mural
A new mural stretching 565 feet in Bed-Stuy memorializes over 150 victims of fatal anti-Black violence, including Breonna Taylor and George Floyd.
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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.
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Historical Painting Is Altered to Show Most Declaration of Independence Signatories Were Enslavers
Documentarian Arlen Parsa took John Trumbull’s famous work, “Declaration of Independence,” and marked the faces of every man that controlled enslaved people with a red dot.
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Man Shot and Wounded During Demonstration Against Colonial Statue
Gunshots were fired outside of the Albuquerque Museum as members of a right-wing militia infiltrated an attempt to remove a statue of New Mexico's colonial governor, Juan de Oñate.
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Mississippi Leaders Urge Redesign of State Flag to Remove Confederate Battle Flag
“In Mississippi, the state flag is the most visible symbol of white supremacy," says a group of local leaders calling for its replacement.
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Columbus Statue, Sculpted by Mussolini’s Bodyguard, Doused in Red Paint
The statue in Miami, which was recently graffitied during anti-racist protests, is a little-known piece of fascist history.
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Sale of Artist-Designed Scarves Benefits Black Trans Advocacy Coalition
Gordon Robichaux has partnered with Post Present Medium to publish a series of silkscreened bandanas by Leilah Babirye, Matt Connors, Otis Houston Jr., Elisabeth Kley, Matt Paweski, and Tabboo!
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2020 ArtPrize Exhibition Canceled Over COVID-19 Concerns
Concerns over the difficulty of travel, low attendance, and gathering restrictions prompted the decision to cancel one of the largest public art events in the US.