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City of San Antonio Removes Video Work by Xandra Ibarra, Prompting Cries of Censorship
The National Coalition Against Censorship says the removal of Ibarra's video "raises serious First Amendment concerns."
Valentina Di Liscia
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What Are the New York Public Library Lions Reading? The Great Gatsby and Beloved
As part of its 125th anniversary celebrations, NYPL has outfitted the marble lions that flank its main branch entrance with their very own copies of two books chosen from librarians' 125 favorite titles.
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A Trove of Historic and Handwritten Mexican Cookbooks Is Now Online
Skimming through the titles — like Recetas que escribió mi madre con amor para sus hijas ("Recipes my mom wrote with love for her daughters") — gives one a sense of the intimate nature of these objects, digitized by the University of Texas at San Antonio.
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Report Exposes Physical Abuse Allegations Against Philadelphia Museum of Art's Former Retail Director
Employees tell the Philadelphia Inquirer that James A. Cincotta would hit, slap, punch, pinch, and shove his colleagues to the point of bruising and tears, as well as denigrate them verbally, often in public.
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Week in Review: US Denies Entry To Forensic Architecture Director; Six Cooper Hewitt Museum Trustees Resign
Also, for the first time since the Renaissance, Raphael's tapestries are reunited at the Sistine Chapel, artist Felicity Hammond denounces the Dutch art fair Unseen for not paying its artists, and more.
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Prize at Armory Show Will Give 10K to a Woman Artist or Her Estate
The artists shortlisted for the prize, funded by French nonprofit AWARE, are Yuko Nasaka, Rina Banerjee, Aase Texmon Rygh, Alexis Smith, and June Edmonds.
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Genuine Rembrandt Revealed Under Layers of Varnish After Restoration
A restoration of “Portrait of a Young Woman” (1632), formerly credited to Rembrandt’s studio and residing at the Allentown Art Museum, revealed the work to be an original by the Dutch Master.
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Berlin Nightclubs Seek the Same Federal Protections as Theaters and Opera Houses
A nightclub advocacy group went before the German Parliament to request new laws that will protect the nation's clubs from gentrification.
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After Artist Pens Open Letter, Unseen Art Fair Owners Promise Payment
Felicity Hammond penned an open letter saying she was never paid the fees owed to her by Unseen art fair after it declared bankruptcy.
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Week in Review: Anti-Oil Activists Occupy British Museum To Protest BP-Funded Exhibition; Chile Foregoes Participation In Spanish Art Fair, Prompting Backlash
Also, the Rothko Chapel in Houston will reopen this June, the US Department of the Interior has finalized plans to allow drilling, mining, and grazing in national monuments in southern Utah, and more.
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Photojournalist Arrested by NYPD While Filming Police Officers
In video footage captured by his friend, Amr Alfiky loudly and clearly repeats that he is a journalist and offers to show his press credentials while a group of police push him against a car and handcuff him.
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Margaret Liu Clinton on Closing Koenig & Clinton and Being a "Slow Gallerist"
“I think it is inevitable that the gallery system will go through a business restructuring, because otherwise small galleries are essentially incubating artists and employees for larger spaces that just brutally cherry-pick them,” Clinton tells Hyperallergic.