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In August, student activists toppled the "Silent Sam" Confederate monument on UNC's campus. Yesterday, the university chancellor introduced a proposal to reinstall the statue.
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The Arc de Triomphe was vandalized and had one of its sculpture's smashed by protesters while cars burned outside the Jeu de Paume and Orangerie.
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"Even as we are idealistic and missionary in our belief in artists — as established by our founder Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney — the Whitney is first and foremost a museum. It cannot right all the ills of an unjust world, nor is that its role. Yet, I contend that the Whitney has a critical and urgen
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Since August, Sarah Mardini — a humanitarian aid worker who saved refugees bound for Greece by pulling their sinking dinghy ashore — has indefinitely languished in a prison outside Athens.
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Parallel to today's protest at the RISD Museum, organizers from Decolonize This Place gathered at the Brooklyn Museum to decry stolen objects in the Brooklyn Museum's collection.
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Students and faculty from the Rhode Island School of Design and Brown University held an action today to request a sculpture looted from the Kingdom of Benin be returned. The museum says they have begun conversations with the Nigerian government to return the bronze.
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Three days after Hyperallergic published an article detailing the Whitney Museum's connection to the ongoing migrant crisis at the US-Mexico border, more than 100 staffers at the Manhattan-based museum have signed a letter demanding that their employers respond to the article's allegations.
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"We are ready to find solutions with France," Senegal's culture minister recently said at a conference in Dakar. "But if 10,000 pieces are identified in the collections, we are asking for all 10,000."
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Also, Indigenous artifacts are pulled from auction in Boston following protests, a famous stretch of Berlin Wall is saved from developers, and more.
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Plus, the San Antonio Museum of Art received over 850 photographs, and works of Chinese art sell at major Hong Kong auctions.
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Who will save Richmond Barthé's Depression Era frieze from crumbling into dust? The 80-foot-long sculpture was an ambitious public art commission by the gay African American sculptor, but now public officials are reluctant to lend a helping hand.
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Francis Outred resigned as Christie’s Head of Postwar Art, Krista Clark and William Downs won the 2018 Atlanta Artadia Award, and more.