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In 2017, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio pledged to link future funding for cultural institutions to the diversity of their employees and boards. A new study released by the city shows demographic alignment is still far away.
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The House Education and Labor Committee says it has evidence that suggests the Trump administration helped the failing for-profit colleges lie to students about accreditation as their systems collapsed.
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A new report suggests that art can play an important role in welcoming women and minority groups into spaces of higher education that have historically excluded them.
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Warren Kanders's wife, Allison, simultaneously resigned from the museum's painting and sculpture committee. The news comes after months of protests and an emerging boycott, with eight artists withdrawing from the 2019 Whitney Biennial.
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Laura Ortman, Thirza Cuthand, Brendan Fernandes, Marcus Fischer, Nibia Pastrana Santiago, and Maia Ruth Lee have publicly announced their intention to stay in the biennial despite calls for a boycott.
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The renowned performance artist is seeking more than 100 volunteers to participate in his largest performance yet, "Conquest."
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Silverstein Properties is launching a new art residency at 3 World Trade Center, but in 2017, their art residency inside a nearby building failed to pay dozens of artists.
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"After this discovery, what may have started as the Tear Gas Biennial is now the Sierra Bullet Biennial," a Forensic Architecture researcher told Hyperallergic.
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Korakrit Arunanondchai, Meriem Bennani, Nicole Eisenman, and Nicholas Galanin say that the museum has failed to adequately respond to the Warren Kanders controversy. Following the announcement, Eddie Arroyo, Christine Sun Kim, Agustina Woodgate, and Forensic Architecture announced their withdrawal.
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Developers looking to build their 100-story waterfront skyscraper are up against a grassroots community effort to stop their project that just scored a major win.
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The new museum will house the return of 26 cultural artifacts on long-term loan from France. The objects were originally seized by French troops from Benin in 1892.
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Galleries are exiting the market and studios are being demolished in what the government is referring to as their actions against organized crime.