News
NYC Awards $47.1 Million in Grants and Pandemic Relief to Arts Organizations
More than 1,000 organizations will receive funding, the agency’s largest-ever number of award recipients for its annual program.
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Ukraine Wants to Designate Chernobyl a UNESCO World Heritage Site
The site of the worst nuclear disaster in history has become a tourist attraction, in part due to the 2019 TV mini-series “Chernobyl.”
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University of Florida Offers a Funded MFA Degree in Its Cutting-edge Studio Art Program
Engage in experimental and intersectional research-based art-making at UF’s School of Art + Art History. Applications are open until February 1, 2021.
Books
Reynaldo Rivera's Photographs of a Los Angeles That No Longer Exists
In the 1980s and ’90s, Rivera photographed drag performers in Latinx gay bars, house parties in pre-gentrified Echo Park, and performers like Sade, Vaginal Davis, and Chaka Khan.
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32 Museum Directors Lead Calls for German Parliament to Reverse BDS Ruling
Hundreds of artists, academics, and writers called on German parliament to reverse a resolution from last year that labels the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS) as “anti-Semitic.”
Film
Celebrate Hanukkah With Films That Center Jewish Narratives
From the Coen Brother’s take on the Jewish-American experience, to a rabbi’s talking cat, stream these films during the holiday.
Art
In Large-Scale Quilts, Jesse Krimes Memorializes Those Subsumed by Incarceration
American Rendition interweaves materials cherished by current and formerly incarcerated people into contemplative scenes.
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A Surrealist Yves Tanguy Painting Was Tossed in Trash at a German Airport
The painting, worth an estimated $340,000, was left behind by a traveler at Düsseldorf Airport and scrapped by a cleaning crew.
Performance
The Pitfalls of Hosting a Virtual Cabaret
HaRaKa Platform’s Cairo KitKat Club pales in comparison to virtual performances mounted with only a fraction of the institutional support.”
Announcement
German Film Office and Arsenal Berlin Present "Comes the Revolution: The Berlinale Forum at 50"
The 50th-anniversary program featuring curated selections by The Museum of Modern Art will be available for free and on demand from December 14–20.
Announcement
UC Davis’s MFA in Design Program Welcomes Prospective Students to a Virtual Open House
On Friday, December 18, discover the interdisciplinary research-based graduate program at the University of California, Davis. The priority deadline to apply is January 5, 2021.
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Opposition Mounts Against Proposed Appointment of Far-right Chairman to Israeli Holocaust Museum
Effi Eitam, a former general in the Israeli army, has publicly called for the mass expulsion of Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza. Benjamin Netanyahu and his allies are urging for Eitam to be appointed chairman of Yad Vashem.