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NYC Grants Awards to 36 Nonprofits for Arts and Culture Programs in Languages Other Than English
The Department of Cultural Affairs has launched the Create NYC Language Access Fund, awarding grants ranging from $5,000 to $25,000.
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Apply for Warren Wilson’s Low-Residency MA Program Focused on Craft History and Theory
With the MA in Critical Craft Studies, students can connect their academic and life experiences to histories and narratives of craft. Applications are due March 1, 2020.
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The Perennial Problem With the Excavation of Ancient Sites
Why chase after unprovenanced — and likely looted or forged — material when so much excavated material lies waiting for study?
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Gauging the Possibilities of Impermanence at the New MoMA
MoMA’s recent expansion embodies the tension between the ways in which cultural spaces can offer visitors comfortable narratives and on the other, how they can suggest the potential for radical inclusiveness by iteration, reinvention, and reinstallation.
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Front of House Staff at the Shed Seek to Unionize
The staff, who have filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board, claim that "working conditions were not up to par."
Film
The Jewish Israeli Lawyer Who's Made a Career of Defending Palestinians
The documentary Advocate, profiling controversial lawyer Lea Tsemel, has become an unlikely Oscar contender.
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An Archive Reveals a Troubling Picture of Late-19th-Century California
At the California Historical Society, paintings of the state’s beautiful vistas are shown alongside archival materials revealing a more brutal history of displacement, discrimination, and murder.
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Meet the Formerly Incarcerated Artist in Residence Who Hopes to Transform the Philadelphia DA's Office
James “Yaya” Hough speaks of a "strong desire to create dialogue inside of the community, between the DA’s office, the citizenry, the affected communities and more specifically, victim advocate groups."
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Vera Neumann, the Artist Who Transformed Her Paintings Into Wearable Objects
“I’m an artist who prefers to paint things for people rather than for walls,” Neumann explained in 1971.
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The Urgent and Necessary Images of Shahidul Alam
At the Rubin Museum of Art, Truth to Power spotlights Alam's tireless documentation of over 40 years of struggle and change in his native Bangladesh.
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The Ornate Objects of Early European Technology
At the Metropolitan Museum, Making Marvels: Science and Splendor at the Courts of Europe makes clear Europe’s obsession with technological and scientific advancement between 1550 and 1750.
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A Multidisciplinary Tribute to the Archetype of the Woman Traveler
Starting January 23, Women In Public will explore themes of place and wandering with a focus on the female experience, featuring screenings, a lecture, and a workshop.