“Opening the first exhibition of Israeli artists in the region is yet another attempt to popularize normalization.”
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Activists Convene Near Museum of Modern Art to Envision a “Post-MoMA Future”
Today’s protest kicked off “10 Weeks of Art, Action, and Conversation.”
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Required Reading
This week, Mister Rogers’s cardigans, the myth of Noblesse Oblige, inequity at a LA museum, digital media’s issues, and more.
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Anti-Racist Activists Say They Used a Stolen Confederate Monument as a Toilet
White supremacy is shitty.
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The Louvre Digitizes 482,000 Artworks From the Depths of Its Collection
“The Louvre is dusting off its treasures, even the least-known,” said the museum’s director.
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Week in Review: Asian American Arts Workers Denounce White Supremacy; NFT Prices Plummet
Also, Philly activists plan a protest at the Penn Museum to demand the repatriation of the stolen skulls of enslaved people, and more.
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Artemisia Gentileschi Masterpiece, Unrecognized for Decades, Is Acquired by Getty
“Lucretia” (ca. 1627) remained in private hands for centuries before it was recently rediscovered in a collection in southern France.
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Activists Renew Calls for Penn Museum to Repatriate Skulls of Enslaved People
Philadelphia activists accuse the museum of lack of transparency in its proceedings to repatriate the crania.
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Ancient Antikythera Mechanism, the “World’s First Computer,” Is Reconstructed
The device, which is thought to predict planets’ movement, was found in the sea in 1901, salvaged from a wrecked merchant ship.
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Asian American Arts Workers Denounce White Supremacy in Open Letter
“We are exhausted, scared, grieving, and angry, and yet we persevere.”
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An Anti-Racist Group Is Holding a Confederate Monument for Ransom
The group has pledged to turn a monument to Jefferson Davis “into a toilet” unless the United Daughters of the Confederacy meets its demands.
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Bronx Artists Collaborated to Refurbish Community Park Until the City Locked Them Out
Last August, the North Bronx Collective started cleaning up Tibbett’s Tail and have since opened a food distribution site at the park.