Week in Review

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Week in Review: An Artist Paints a Mural Along the US–Mexico Border Fence, New Museum Workers Protest

Also, someone stole a golden egg from a Dalí sculpture in Vancouver, British actor Mark Rylance has resigned from his association with the Royal Shakespeare Company due to their connection to British Petroleum, and more.

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Week in Review: Sotheby's Sells for $3.7 Billion, an Art Philanthropist Couple Helped Fund the Anti-Vax Movement

Also, leading Jewish studies scholars are defending the former director of the Berlin Museum after his resignation, the Association of Art Museum Directors passed a resolution calling on art museums to pay their interns, and more.

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Week in Review: Artists Protest BP, Hong Kong Institutions Strike to Oppose Extradition Bill

Also, a group of activists occupied El Museo del Barrio during its 50th-anniversary celebration, installations about child immigrant detentions appeared across NYC, and more.

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Week in Review: Museum Workers Urge Transparency, Trump Baby Returns in the UK

Also, New Jersey named eight members of the Sackler family in its lawsuit against Purdue Pharma, a Turkish video activist chained himself to the culture ministry in Ankara, and more.

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Week in Review: Archaeologists Find Imperial Sculpture of Dionysus, Smithsonian Appoints First African American Head

Also, the Baltimore Museum of Art is launching a citywide survey to learn how it can best serve Baltimore residents, the Art Institute of Chicago is deaccessioning 300 works of Chinese art, and more.

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Week in Review: Paris Will Get a 100-Acre Park, Democrats Propose Increased Budgets for NEA and NEH

Also, Sotheby's will be the first international auction house to offer Indigenous Australian art outside of Australia or Europe, the Prado Museum is putting together a "disaster plan," and more.

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Week in Review: Turmoil with Robert Indiana’s Estate Continues, Brazil’s National Museum Needs Funds

Also, Machu Picchu is revising its rules to reduce deterioration of the Incan citadel, David Adjaye will design the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art in New Delhi, and more.

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Week in Review: Reuters Journalists Freed in Myanmar, Facebook Groups Exposed for Selling Looted Objects

Also, the Hermitage Museum will loan Leonardo da Vinci works to Italian galleries in lieu of the Louvre, Tennessee gets a triennial, and more.

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Week in Review: 500 Years Since Leonardo’s Death, Jonas Wood Sale Will Fund Rainforest Conservation

Also, the Asia Society will launch a triennial in 2020, Trevor Paglen's space sculpture has lost contact with engineers on Earth, and more.

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Week in Review: Conserving Nancy Holt’s Land Art, the Louvre Will Buy a Rembrandt

Also, Olu Oguibe's "Monument for strangers and refugees" gets a permanent home in Germany, Chicago launches a "mural registry," and more.

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Week in Review: Isamu Noguchi's Studio Will Open to the Public, Cuban Artists Arrested

Also, Hito Steyerl addresses the Sackler family controversy and opioid epidemic, 30,000 imperial objects were found underneath a zoo in Rio de Janeiro, and more.

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Week in Review: $650M LACMA Redesign Approved, #DontMuteDC Embraces Go-Go Music

Also, the Jewish Museum in Berlin will no longer accept money from the Sacklers, Saatchi Gallery is now a nonprofit, and more.