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Museum of Islamic Art in Jerusalem Postpones Auction Following Backlash
The museum’s intended sale of 255 items, planned for today at Sotheby’s in London, is postponed to November.
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374 Native American Treaties Have Been Digitized and Made Available Online
Beyond their historical and educational value, these treaties are used by tribal advocates in court to protect their rights in land and water disputes.
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Activists Fined After Anti-colonial Protest at Quai Branly Museum
Four activists were fined for their live-streamed protest at the Paris museum, in which Mwazulu Diyabanza removed a 19th-century funerary post from its display.
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French Museum Postpones Genghis Khan Exhibition, Accusing Chinese Authorities of Censorship
A museum in Nantes says that it decided to pause the exhibition after Chinese authorities asked that names and terms like “Genghis Khan,” “empire,” and “Mongol” not be used in the exhibition.
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Tom Gores, Owner of Prison Telecom Company, Resigns From LACMA Board
Last month, a letter signed by over 100 artists, including Andrea Fraser and EJ Hill, demanded Gores’s removal from the board, accusing his company of price gouging.
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SCOTUS Declines to Review 5Pointz Case, Cementing Settlement for Artists
The Supreme Court declined G&M Realty’s petition to review the case, upholding a 2018 federal court ruling that awarded $6.7 million in damages to 21 artists at the site.
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Now Is the Perfect Time to Learn About William Greaves
A new website dedicated to the pioneering Black filmmaker collates hundreds of valuable resources about his work.
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The Whitney Biennial Has Been Postponed to 2022
The next biennial, previously slated for the spring of 2021, has now been delayed by a year due to the pandemic.
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Early Paintings by Edward Hopper Found to Be Replicated From Magazines
Louis Shadwick, a PhD candidate at the Courtauld Institute in London, says the American modernist reproduced the works from a how-to arts magazine when he was a teenager.
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As Part of EU’s $872 Billion Recovery Plan, a Call For a “New Bauhaus”
The European Union is looking to the influential modernist movement as a model for a new, climate-neutral architecture.
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Four Participants Withdraw From a Tel Aviv Documentary Festival in Solidarity With BDS
Several filmmakers and international guests canceled their participation in this year’s edition of the Docaviv festival.
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Maurizio Cattelan’s Notorious Banana Sculpture Donated to Guggenheim Museum
The controversial sculpture has been donated anonymously to the New York institution.