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SAIC Puts Professor on Leave After Palestine Reference
The Chicago school is investigating the director of its art therapy graduate program after she assigned a case study that touched on pro-Palestine activism.
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Winning Penn Station Redesign Features Trump’s Name
Renderings of the station redesign show the president’s name carved into a wall, raising questions and concerns.
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Italian Arts Workers Announce Nationwide Strike
A month after a historic Venice Biennale strike, groups say they will withhold their labor this Friday, June 12, in a call for better working conditions and in solidarity with Palestine.
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New School Lays Off Nearly 90 People, Dealing Blow to Humanities
The Manhattan institution cut 19 faculty members and 68 staffers amid mounting financial deficits and declining enrollment.
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Is Betting on the Art Market a Terrible Idea?
The prediction platform Kalshi is launching a dedicated art category amid heightened scrutiny over insider trading in wagers across industries.
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Art Movements: Meet MoMA's New Photo Chief
Also, the Asian Cultural Council awards $1.6M in grants to artists, and at least one sector of the art market is hot as hell.
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Marjane Satrapi, "Persepolis" Author and Human Rights Fighter, Dies at 56
One of her friends said the artist and filmmaker “died of sadness” after her husband’s death just over a year ago.
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Pace Cuts 50 Workers and 50 Artists, Citing a “Broken” Gallery Model
The layoffs and reductions come amid ongoing market uncertainty and the disastrous collapse of crypto-backed art ventures, of which Pace was an early adopter.
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New Trump Rule Could Cut Enrollment at Nearly Half of Arts MA Programs
The controversial proposal would measure alumni income to determine whether a program can matriculate students who take out federal loans.
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100+ Artists Threaten Legal Action Over Inclusion in Biennale Awards
The Biennale told Hyperallergic that although withdrawing artists are included on the ballot, “these votes will not be considered.”
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Lucian Freud’s Dozing Nude Could Fetch $47M at Auction
"Sleeping By the Lion Carpet" (1995–96) is the last in a series of monumental portraits of Sue Tilley in resting postures.
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Artist Julio Le Parc, Maestro of Light, Movement, and Defiance, Dies at 97
While his contemporaries focused on abstraction’s retinal possibilities, he viewed the liberation of the spectator as parallel to society's.