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NYC’s Rubin Museum Faces Repatriation Demands Ahead of Closure
The local activist group Our Ancestors Say No is calling for the return of Tibetan and Himalayan objects including a Buddhist Shrine Room set to be relocated to the Brooklyn Museum.
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Mysterious Nude Effigy of Trump Appears in Las Vegas
The massive sculpture was deplored by the Republican party and was taken down less than a week before it was ordered to be removed.
Art
The Problem With b. Robert Moore’s All-Encompassing Afro-Pessimism
The experience of being Black in America transcends the addiction, police brutality, lynchings, loss of family, and misogynoir that the artist depicts.
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Wendy Red Star and Ebony G. Patterson Among 2024 MacArthur Fellows
Tony Cokes and Justin Vivian Bond also won the no-strings-attached $800,000 grant.
Art
The Cutting Satire of Hannah Höch’s Collages
One of the inventors of modern collage, Höch’s sociopolitical imagery skewered the politicians and culture of early and mid-20th-century Germany.
Books
Elizabeth Catlett’s Steadfast Radicalism
In the catalog for her Brooklyn Museum show, scholars explore how the Black revolutionary artist lived out her beliefs after her exile from the United States.
Film
No Other Land Magnifies the Horrors of Occupation
Made by a team of Palestinian and Israeli activists, this film implores us to feel the effects of the war.
Art
Bushwick Open Studios Finally Comes of Age
The annual event celebrated its 18th edition this weekend, with artists in good spirits despite rain and a subway line that didn’t run into Manhattan.
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Portrait Found by Junk Dealer May Be Picasso Original
The painting was discovered more than half a century ago when Luigi Lo Rosso was scavenging the basement of an Italian home for goods to sell.
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Hurricane Helene Obliterates Asheville’s River Arts District
The city and its artists were hard-hit by the storm that tore a deadly path of destruction from Florida through inland Georgia, the Carolinas, and Tennessee.
Opportunities
Opportunities in October 2024
Residencies, grants, open calls, and jobs from Amherst College, apexart, Tamarind Institute, and more in our monthly list of opportunities for artists, writers, and art workers.
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Richard Mayhew, Painter of “Mindscapes,” Dies at 100
Mayhew examined place, identity, emotion, and connections to the natural world in his vibrant, abstract artworks.