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After a Writer Asked for Equal Pay, the New York Film Academy Let Her Go
Krista Knight agreed to write a movie musical short for the prestigious academy pro bono. After discovering her colleagues were being paid, she requested the same.
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PAIN Sackler Storms Guggenheim and Metropolitan Museums for Financial Ties to Opioid Manufacturers
The drug policy advocates, led by photographer Nan Goldin, held a covert die-in at the Guggenheim, then marching to the Met to publicly protest on its steps.
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Artist Drops Massive Opioid Spoon at Entrance of Another Sackler-Owned Drug Manufacturer
The Sackler family founded Rhodes Pharma in 2007, just months after pleading guilty to criminal charges that their family company, Purdue Pharma, had mismarketed OxyContin.
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World’s Largest Native American Art Forgery Ring Distributed $12M of Fakes
The US government attorney supports 18-month sentences and fines for the accused, but in many ways the damage is done, casting both real and fake Native American artworks into doubt.
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Week in Review: Newly Authenticated Van Gogh, Christie’s Biggest Year Ever
Also, the Lagos State Government has requested the British Museum return the first item ever stolen from Nigeria under colonialism, the German government will direct over $2 million to research colonial-era artifacts, and more.
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Oklahoma City Museum of Art Acquires Kehinde Wiley Painting, and San Antonio Museum of Art Receives Three Gifts
Plus, Sotheby's sells a "Mona Lisa" made by a follower of da Vinci, and the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum acquires a new work.
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200 Workers at Vancouver Art Gallery Go on Strike [UPDATED]
The unionized workers, who have been without a contract since 2017, say the gallery privileges upper management at the expense of other employees.
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Ford Foundation Fosters Independent Curators and New Talent with Social Practice Gallery
Opening in March 2019, the Ford Foundation Gallery's first three exhibitions will explore the theme "Utopian Imagination."
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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.