News
SFMOMA Announces Second Wave of Layoffs, Impacting 55 Additional Workers
This follows March’s announcement that the museum would lay off 131 on-call (contracted or freelance) employees and furlough around 200 regular staffers.
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Opinion
A Toppled Statue In Bristol Reveals Limited Understandings of What Decolonizing Requires
Protesters’ removal of Edward Colston’s statue didn’t attack history; instead it corrected how we write it.
News
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.
News
Toppled and Defaced Racist Monuments in 15 Cities, From Richmond to Bristol
Worldwide, demonstrations protesting anti-Blackness gain steam, and people have torn down and graffitied monuments to Confederate leaders and imperialist figureheads.
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An Essential Reading List for Black Liberation, Brought to You by the Schomburg Center
To mark its 95th anniversary, the center’s staff and curators chose 95 books by Black authors, including titles by James Baldwin, Saidiya Hartman, Jesmyn Ward, Deborah Willis, and Colson Whitehead.
Art
A POC-Centered Vision of NYC From NK Jemisin, Celebrated Sci-Fi Author
Jemisin will join comedian W. Kamau Bell for a discussion of sci-fi, Afrofuturism, and her most recent novel, which brings her unique brand of speculative fiction a little closer to earth.
Film
How Hilma af Klint Was Written Out of History
The new documentary Beyond the Visible is more of a detective story than a straightforward biography, investigating the erasure of an important figure in abstract art.
Art
Queer Art Workers Reflect: Noah Lawrence-Holder Is “Working to Abolish the Police, the Way Marsha P. Johnson Intended!”
LGBTQ Pride month is now. Every day in June, we are celebrating the community by featuring one queer art worker and asking them to reflect on what this moment means to them.
Film
The Shortcomings of Netflix's Documentary House Style
The streaming giant is increasingly relying on explainer-type series like Explained and History 101, but their supposed objectivity masks worrying biases.
Art
An Urgent Performance From Patrisse Cullors, a Founder of Black Lives Matter
Cullors’s “public act of mourning” is the inaugural event of Pride at the Fowler Museum.
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Warren Kanders, Former Whitney Museum Vice Chair, Vows to Exit Tear Gas Trade
Kanders, who was ousted from the Whitney board last summer after months of protest, says he will sell certain divisions of Safariland.
Art
Tender Pencil and Ink Drawings Pay Tribute to Nursing Home Residents
Michelangelo Lovelace made numerous drawings during his time as a nurse's aide, now on view in Fort Gansevoort's online show Nightshift.