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Noguchi Museum Launches Online Archive of 60,000 Unique Works
The vast archive of photographs, manuscripts, and digitized drawings is coupled with an updated digital catalogue raisonné of Isamu Noguchi's work.
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Teacher Accused of Throwing Away Students’ Black Lives Matter Posters
The ACLU says the incident points to a larger issue of censoring Black students at school.
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A Native American Shield Highlights a Legal Loophole About the Export of Cultural Artifacts
The appearance of a stolen sacred shield at a Paris auction house prompted a New Mexico Senator to propose the STOP Act, which would ban the trafficking of certain cultural items outside the United States.
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“I Feel Like Me Again”: People With Dementia Share the Benefits of Art in a New Study
A study closely followed 25 participants of the Art and Dementia program at National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, finding that art helps balance cortisol levels and decrease "sundowning.”
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Employees at One of LA’s Largest Museums Announce Plans to Unionize
About 50 employees of the Museum of Contemporary Art gathered outside of MOCA Director Klaus Biesenbach’s office this morning and read a statement that formally declared their plans to form a union.
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The UN's World Health Organization Says Art Is a Powerful Prescription
A study published by the World Health Organization, which collected data from 900 different publications over a 19-year span, offers important validation for the arts and new solutions for medical professionals.
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Week in Review: PAIN Sackler Protests in London, An Exhibition of Political Art Censored in China
Also, LA's Museum of Contemporary Art will have free admission starting January 11, the Baltimore Museum of Art will only acquire artworks by women in 2020, and more.
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Artemisia Gentileschi Rakes in $5.3 Million; Souls Grown Deep Announces Four Museum Acquisitions
Also, the New York Public Library purchased 153 Virginia Woolf-related items, an 18th-century Senegalese saber has been returned by France, and more.
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23 Arrested and 10,000 Artifacts Seized in Crackdown on Archaeological Trafficking Ring
A sophisticated organized crime group used bulldozers and advanced metal detectors to excavate ancient artifacts in southern Italy, and deployed facilitators across Europe to traffic them.
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Laid-Off Marciano Art Foundation Employees Picket a Dinner Hosted by Marciano Brothers
Usually prepped to dole out exhibition information to museum art-goers, last night the workers had a 400-dollar a plate dinner to protest and pedestrians to inform.
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Activists Dressed as Trojan Figures Crash Opening of BP-Funded Exhibition
Activist group BP or not BP? interrupted the opening of Troy: Myth and Reality at the British Museum, dressed as “living statues," including a character of their own invention, “Petroleus.”
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Free Admission to LA's Museum of Contemporary Art Begins January 11, 2020
| According to the Los Angeles Times, the decision took eight months to implement due to various changes to the museum's infrastructure to accommodate for expected increased attendance, including hiring more security guards and gallery attendants. The cost of a ticket to special exhibitions, howeve