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Sudanese Artists Plan to Unveil the World’s Largest Protest Banner
The textile banner will stretch 1.9 miles long and feature paintings by hundreds of local artists, portraits of fallen activists, and signatures of thousands of protesters.
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Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera Are Getting a Permanent Monument in New York City
The world’s first permanent public artwork dedicated to transgender women will go to these pioneers of the gay liberation movement.
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Lonnie G. Bunch III will be the next secretary in the Smithsonian, Knox Martin is now represented by Hollis Taggart, and more.
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Forensic Architecture Says Warren Kanders Is One Part of a Web of Possible War Crimes in Gaza
Members of the research group say their "Triple-Chaser" video at the Whitney Biennial is part of an ongoing investigation into violence at the Israeli-Palestinian border.
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A Cottage Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright Is Facing Demolition
The honorary landmark in Glencoe, Illinois sold for $555,000. Its new owners asked for a demolition permit two weeks after the purchase.
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Spongebob Painting Goes for $6M, Annie Leibovitz Portrait of Queen Still Up for Grabs
Plus, two Dutch Golden Age paintings will be returned to the family of art collector Jacob Lierens, and works by Basquiat, Rockwell, Warhol, and others are in the news.
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These Digital Stickers Bring New Life to the Renowned Unicorn Tapestries
Sunil Abraham, a quantitative researcher from Brooklyn, made 87 cutouts from the famous hangings.
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Week in Review: Paris Will Get a 100-Acre Park, Democrats Propose Increased Budgets for NEA and NEH
Also, Sotheby's will be the first international auction house to offer Indigenous Australian art outside of Australia or Europe, the Prado Museum is putting together a "disaster plan," and more.
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Cheng Ran and Cameron Rowland are the inaugural winners of the Nomura Emerging Artist Award, legendary Modernist architect IM Pei passed away, and more.
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Will Washington DC’s Art Commission Fall Victim to a Fight Between the Mayor and City Council?
When an ambitious roadmap for transforming Washington DC into an arts mecca was unveiled last month, it should have been a political coup; instead, it may have triggered a political collapse.
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Workers at the Brooklyn Academy of Music Move to Unionize
A BAM employee says the union for administrative workers and cinema staff has been in the works for a year and a half, after workers “noticed a lack of transparency and discrepancies in codes of standards of conduct that BAM was holding for itself.”
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After a Protest at the 2019 Whitney Biennial Opening, Activists March to Warren Kanders's Townhouse
One protestor promised, “If you take peace from the people, we take peace from you.”