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Osman Kavala, a prominent cultural philanthropist and advocate for the country's Kurdish population, has been imprisoned since 2017 despite "no indictment against him.” CIMAM’s Museum Watch Committee calls this arrest a "violation of Turkey’s commitments to human rights."
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Figures like Justice Sonia Sotomayor, James Baldwin, and Maya Angelou's take center stage in the artist's new MTA mosaics for the 167th Street station.
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Staffers want to return to the goals of the museum's founder Marcia Tucker, who hoped it would function as “a collaborative, self-critical, and ‘transparent’ organizational model.” They say the museum has hired a union-busting consulting firm to quell their efforts.
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After a dramatic court hearing, the pair were convicted for dangerous destruction of property on Thursday. Alongside prison time, they must pay nearly $25,000 in damages to the Bank of France.
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Also, curators at the British Museum realized an object they displayed as a vase was actually a Sumerian weapon, how art dealer Mary Boone hopes to avoid jail time after pleading guilty to tax fraud, and more.
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After Latinx scholars voiced their disturbance that the museum would honor Princess Gloria Von Thurn und Taxis, a friend to Steve Bannon, El Museo walked back its plan with little explanation.
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Plus, Germany returns a Nazi-looted Thomas Couture work to its rightful heirs, and National Museums Scotland acquire a rare longitude pendulum sea clock.
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Nikolaus Gansterer was awarded the MAC International prize, David Voyles was appointed Deputy Director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and more.
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Look both ways before crossing the street, this tiny-house celebrating the Bauhaus's centenary wants to take the Eurocentrism out of design.
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Despite the museum's updated ticket policy undoing its universal pay-what-you-wish model, well-received exhibitions like Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination proved fruitful.
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Citing "cost reasons," the Haus der Kunst has canceled both retrospectives, choosing to instead host a Markus Lüpertz exhibition, which some say upholds the outdated standards of German art hegemony. This decision follows the controversial ousting of former director Okwui Enwezor.
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Amanda Schmitt, a former Artforum employee, accused Landesman of sexual misconduct occurring during and after her career at the magazine. Her claims were backed by eight other women.