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Mercer, a conservative megadonor and supporter of organizations backing climate change denial, has been "quietly removed" from the museum's board of trustees, according to activist group Revolting Lesbians.
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The National Coalition Against Censorship says the removal of Ibarra's video "raises serious First Amendment concerns."
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.