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NYC Allocates $241M for Arts and Culture
The 2024 adopted budget is the highest-ever for the Department of Cultural Affairs, but arts advocates are calling for increased transparency.
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SF Dealer Who Hosed Down Unhoused Woman Will Not Face Charges
Collier Gwin initially faced a misdemeanor battery charge after he was caught spraying down the woman in a video that went viral.
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A New Film Captures the Majesty of Blue Whales
Blue Whales: Return of the Giants (2023) is screening daily in 2D at the American Museum of Natural History.
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UAE's Africa Institute Cancels David Adjaye-Designed Campus
The Sharjah institution is the latest to cut ties with the architect, who denies the accusations made by three former female employees.
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Angelina Jolie Takes Over Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Former NYC Studio
The building at 57 Great Jones Street where the artist lived and worked, which has been on the market for $60K/month, will house the new Atelier Jolie.
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Deadly Russian Missile Attack Destroys Historic Lviv Building
The architectural complex on Stryiska Street, representative of early Functionalism, is a rare example of social housing in the city.
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The Ukrainian Group Archiving Russian Soldiers’ Graffiti
Since the liberation of the Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Kherson regions, the Ukrainian nonprofit Mizhvukhamy has collected over 500 inscriptions left by Russian soldiers.
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Do You Have What It Takes to Be the Met Museum’s Head of Provenance?
The new hire, who will be paid $140,000–$160,000, will be responsible for investigating the sometimes murky backstories of the museum’s vast holdings.
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Netherlands to Return 478 Looted Objects to Indonesia and Sri Lanka
The trove includes six objects from the collection of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, marking the institution’s first repatriation of colonial objects.
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Harlem's Studio Museum Parts Ways With David Adjaye Over Sexual Assault Allegations
Other US and UK institutions have cut ties with the architect in the wake of the accusations.
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Row Over “Anti-Monument” in Mexico Ends in Victory for Feminist Activists
Local government has agreed to let a guerrilla artwork honoring Mexico's femicide victims stand in the place of a dismantled Christopher Columbus statue.
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Nancy Yao Will Not Lead Women's History Museum
Yao has “withdrawn” from her role as director of the new Smithsonian museum amid an investigation of her conduct as the former leader of New York’s Museum of Chinese in America.