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Coalition of Anti-Gentrification Groups Pressures Brooklyn Museum to “Decolonize” [UPDATED]
Anti-gentrification activists are calling on the museum to create a "Decolonization Commission" after a controversial curatorial hire.
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Court OKs Berkshire Museum Plan to Sell Art by Calder, Bierstadt, Picabia, and Others
Today's ruling in the Supreme Judicial Court of Suffolk County clears the way for Sotheby's to auction off over three dozen works from the museum's collection.
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DC's African American History and Culture Museum Is Finally Allowing Walk-In Visitors
This month, the museum is piloting a "Walk-Up Wednesdays" program for first-come, first-served entry once a week.
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LA's Art Community and Activists React to the Closing of 356 Mission
The Boyle Heights nonprofit space founded five years ago by Laura Owens and Wendy Yao had long been the focus of anti-gentrification protests.
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Forgotten Old Master Painting Rediscovered in Iowa Storeroom
An unusual detail helped scholars attribute the painting to Otto van Veen: "The rosy cheeks on the model ... And not the cheeks on the face.”
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India Is Building the World's Tallest Statue
Envisioned to rise nearly 600-feet-tall, the Unity Statue will be twice the height of the Statue of Liberty.
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Thai Street Artists Demand Justice After Killing of Endangered Black Panther
After a Thai mogul was arrested for allegedly hunting in a wildlife sanctuary, artists started painting panther murals to keep the story in the public consciousness.
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A Trump Portrait Contest Provides Some Artistic Catharsis
Winners of an open call contest for portraits of the 45th US president include a photo of a cheese slice draped over a doughnut and a painting of Trump piggy-backing on Putin.
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Texas Art Teacher Suspended for Discussing Her Sexual Orientation in Class
According to the Mansfield Independent School Board, Stacey Bailey was let go after "complaints from parents about Ms. Baily discussing her sexual orientation with elementary-aged students."
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Denmark's First Public Monument to a Black Woman Celebrates a 19th-Century Freedom Fighter
"I Am Queen Mary," installed in Copenhagen, was inspired by Mary Thomas, who led a major uprising on the former Danish colony of St. Croix.
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In a Trump Hotel Suite, Artist Collective "Jails" the President
The shadowy artist collective Indecline converted a room at the Trump International Hotel & Tower in Manhattan into a solo jail cell for a man playing President Trump.
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314 Rare Books Stolen from Pittsburgh's Carnegie Library
There are generally two types of rare book thieves — ones that steal for money and book hoarders.