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Week in Review: Senator Blocks Vote on Smithsonian Latinx and Women Museums; an Art Auction to Aid Displaced Armenians
Also, Americans for the Arts council members are calling for the resignation of top leadership, and more.
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Art Auction Hopes to Help Relief Efforts in Artsakh
Sixty artists from around the world are participating in this auction to benefit refugees who have fled the takeover of Artsakh, also known as Nagorno-Karabakh, by Azerbaijani forces.
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Why Is There an Astronaut in This Year's Vatican Nativity?
The Nativity, produced between 1965 and 1975 in a ceramic school in Abruzzo, has been mocked for its sci-fi aesthetics and inclusion of a Darth Vader-like character.
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A Major Donation Deepens Holdings of Hong Kong Art at M+ Museum
The donation from William and Lavina Lim features work by 53 artists, nearly half of whom are Hong Kong artists.
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Immigrant-serving Arts Organizations Hit Hardest During Pandemic, Study Says
The pandemic has compounded the financial challenges already affecting immigrant artists, who earn just 88 cents on the dollar compared to US-born artists, says the Center for an Urban Future.
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Artists and Cultural Workers Oppose Humboldt Forum Opening, Citing Colonial Ties
The protesters called to redirect government funding of the Humboldt Forum towards cultural decolonization initiatives.
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Small US Art Museums Awarded Relief Grants by Mellon Foundation
The grants will support organizations like the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art in New York, the California African American Museum in Los Angeles, and the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia.
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What Is Possibly the World’s Longest Exposure Photograph Has Been Discovered Inside a Beer Can
The image depicts 2,953 arced trails of the sun rising and falling during a period of eight years and one month.
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Virginia Governor Requests $11M to Replace Confederate Statues With New Artworks
Governor Northam says his new initiative to reimagine public monuments in Virginia would “shine light on previously untold stories.”
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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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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.”