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Controversial Sculpture in Minneapolis Will Be Dismantled and Ceremonially Burned
After protests from the local Dakota nation, Sam Durant’s "Scaffold" will be taken apart starting tomorrow.
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Facing Protests from Islamist Groups, Bangladesh Relocates a Statue of Lady Justice
A statue of Lady Justice in front of the Supreme Court in Bangladesh was removed last Friday and reinstalled two days later in a different spot, where no one can see it from the street.
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After Protests from Native American Community, Walker Art Center Will Remove Public Sculpture
Sam Durant's outdoor installation "Scaffold" references the US Army's mass execution of 38 Dakota men in Minnesota in 1862.
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A Database of Photography’s First 100 Years from Over 50 European Archives
A giant cache of historical photography is now part of a searchable online database.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: over 50,000 indigenous artifacts were preserved and set for return to an Alaskan village, President Trump’s budget called for eliminating NEA and NEH funding, and Jeremy Deller lambasted Theresa May’s campaign slogan.
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The First New Blue Pigment in Over 200 Years Will Become a Crayon
Discovered accidentally in a lab in Oregon in 2009, YInMn blue is now headed for widespread use, thanks to Crayola.
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The National Endowment for the Humanities Isn't Shutting Down
Despite President Trump's proposal to eliminate it, the agency says it "will continue to operate as usual."
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Dozens of Māori and Moriori Remains Return to New Zealand from European Museums
The Übersee-Museum Bremen and three other institutions are repatriating 59 Moriori and Māori ancestral remains collected in the 19th century.
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A Digital Database for Threatened Archaeological Sites in the Middle East and North Africa
Freely accessible and the first of its kind, the EAMENA Database catalogues over 20,000 sites at severe risk in the region.
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Police Raid Major Moscow Theater, Detain Artistic Director over Alleged Embezzlement
Artists rallied outside the Gogol Center in support of Kirill Serebrennikov, an outspoken critic of Putin and the Russian Orthodox Church.
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Playlists of Protest Music and Endangered Languages on New Smithsonian Folkways Site
Online visitors can now access and navigate decades of folk recordings from around the world more easily.
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Artists and Activists Fight to Improve New York City’s Loft Law
With the next deadline to apply for legal loft status looming, a rally will be held to demand better protections for loft tenants.