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Protesters Return to James Cohan Gallery to Say Goodbye to "Omer Fast’s Racist Show"
Activists from as far away as Los Angeles and Vancouver came to Manhattan's Chinatown to address the role of art galleries in gentrification.
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This week in art news: Artforum’s co-publisher Knight Landesman resigned over accusations of sexual harassment, Condé Nast banned its publications from hiring photographer Terry Richardson, and a bust of Napoleon newly attributed to Rodin went on public display.
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Activists Splatter Red Paint on Roosevelt Monument at American Museum of Natural History
The early-morning action, by a new activist group calling itself the Monument Removal Brigade, is the latest in a series of protests demanding the statue's removal.
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NYC Wants Citizens’ Input on Public Monuments and Markers That May Support Hate
The Mayor's Commission on City Art, Monuments, and Markers has launched a seven-question survey asking for public feedback about potentially hateful monuments.
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Colorful and Immersive Experiences at the 2017 Gowanus Open Studios
Wandering around Gowanus this past weekend, you saw the new wave of creative energy that continues to cAll the area's studios and galleries home.
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Performance Artist Who Exposed Herself In Front of the “Mona Lisa” Is Acquitted
On Wednesday, Deborah De Robertis was acquitted for her performance in which she shouted, “Mona Lisa, my pussy, my copyright,” while revealing her vagina.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: Anti-gentrification groups protested Omer Fast’s exhibition in Chinatown, a campaign was launched to save an iconic artwork on Auschwitz, and reporter Tim O’Brien recalled an exchange with Donald Trump over a Renoir knock-off.
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Artist Omer Fast Compares Protesters to Alt-Right, Chinatown Art Brigade Responds
The artist released a statement after Sunday's protests, and the protesters have responded.
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US Civil Rights Sites and Aleppo’s Old Souk Among 25 Threatened Places Around the World
The World Monuments Fund announced the 2018 World Monuments Watch, listing 25 sites, from the hurricane-hit Caribbean to modernist architecture in India.
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Chinatown Art Brigade Protests Omer Fast's "Racist" Exhibition at James Cohan Gallery
Dozens of people interrupted James Cohan Gallery's Sunday hours to demand that the gallery and artist take down what the protesters see as "racist aggression towards the community of Chinatown."
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Art Movements
This week in art news: Marina Abramović abandoned plans to open the Marina Abramović Institute, the UK government announced a public consultation on ivory sales, and Semiotext(e) cancelled an event following pressure from the anti-gentrification group Defend Boyle Heights.
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A Project Hopes to Save India's Vanishing Living Root Bridges
For centuries, locals in the jungles of Meghalaya, India built living root bridges for practical purposes. Now there's a rush to ensure they survive in the face of industrialization.