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Two photographers receive Carmignac Photojournalism Award to carry out a documentarian expedition of the Arctic, the Chinese galleries at the Philadelphia Museum of Art have reopened, and more.
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An Auschwitz Recreation at a Turkish Film Premiere Causes Uproar
Among the glamour of Cicero’s red carpet premiere were disturbing references to World War II concentration camps, including barking German shepherds, guards in SS uniforms, and children's shoes piled on the floor.
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Protesters Object to Display of Looted Objects at Israel's Bible Lands Museum
Finds Gone Astray features 40,000 artifacts confiscated from looters and unauthorized dealers in antiquities over the past 50 years. The protestors demand the immediate removal of the exhibition and the repatriation of the stolen items to the Palestinian Authority.
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Amazon Accused of Artwashing HQ2 Negotiations in Activist Petition
The Artist Studio Affordability Project (ASAP) says city officials are helping the corporate behemoth steamroll dissent.
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Asylum Seeker Wins Literary Prize for Book Written via WhatsApp
Iranian-Kurdish writer and asylum seeker Behrouz Boochani won the 2019 Victorian Prize for Literature for a book he wrote through WhatsApp texts over five years while living in a Papua New Guinea detention center, where he is still imprisoned.
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Ariana Grande Accused of Plagiarizing Artist in Music Video
Previously, the video's director, Dave Meyers, came under legal fire for using imagery similar to that of artist Lina Iris Viktor in a music video for Kendrick Lamar and SZA's song for the Black Panther movie.
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MacDowell Colony Launched a Fellowship in the Name of Artist Musa McKim Guston
The new annual Fellowship, for an artist working in any discipline, was funded by a gift from the daughter of artists Philip Guston and Musa McKim Guston.
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Berlin Memorial to Gay Victims of the Holocaust Vandalized for Second Time
Artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset, who designed the monument over a decade ago, says, "The memorial can be repaired — it is far worse when the victim of violent homophobia is a human being."
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The Watercolour World Documents the Planet Before Photography
The initiative has already digitized 80,000 images, categorized and made searchable to the public.
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Week in Review: Finding Leonardo’s Fingerprint, Iraq’s Mosul Museum Reopens
Also, Charline von Heyl exhibition extended after government shutdown, Birmingham Civil Rights Institute has apologized to Dr. Angela Y. Davis and more.
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An Auction Record for Work by a Pre-Modern Woman Artist, and Museum of Modern Art Receives 800 Drawings
Plus, the complete archive of Supreme skate decks sells for $800,000, and Yayoi Kusama breaks another auction record.
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A 40-Year Initiative Brings the Art of Maximum-Security Prisoners to the Museum
"Those capable of the worst are capable of the best," says curator Jeffrey Greene. "Anyone can be an artist."