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# Week in Review: 350+ Encourage Protections for Afghan Artists; Armenian Heritage Sites Targeted
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/week-in-review-350-encourage-protections-for-afghan-artists-armenian-heritage-sites-targeted/
- Published: 2021-08-26T20:02:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:38:29.000Z
- Description: Also, controversy erupted after a Tiffany's ad featured a Basquiat painting, and more.
- Author: Jasmine Weber
- Tags: News, Week in Review, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 09:11 (2021, 2022, part 1)

W*eek in Review is a weekly collection of news, developments, and stirrings in the art world.* [*Subscribe*](https://newsletters.hyperallergic.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com) *to receive these posts as a weekly newsletter*.

## Activism

Over 350 artists, includingSusan Meiselas and Hank Willis Thomas, signed a letter asking the US to [protect Afghan artists and cultural workers](https://hyperallergic.com/with-afghan-artists-at-risk-hundreds-sign-letter-asking-us-to-protect-them/).

Using high-resolution satellite imagery, Caucasus Heritage Watch identified over a dozen Armenian sites that have been [destroyed, damaged, or threatened](https://hyperallergic.com/satellite-imagery-reveals-azerbaijans-persistent-erasure-of-armenian-heritage-sites/) by Azerbaijan.

## Museums

Over 60 venues in upstate New York, including Dia Beacon and the Dorsky Museum, will open for an [art-filled weekend in the Hudson Valley](https://hyperallergic.com/upstate-art-weekend-new-york/).

September 18 marks the [Smithsonian Magazine Museum Day](https://hyperallergic.com/smithsonians-museum-day-september-18-2021/); hundreds of museums across the US will participate and offer free tuition.

## In Other News

NYC art educators are welcomed to a sprawling warehouse in Queens for a curbside "shopping spree," where they can [pick up free supplies](https://hyperallergic.com/nyc-art-teachers-can-drop-by-this-warehouse-for-free-supplies/) ahead of the school year.

Conservators at Dresden's Old Masters Picture Gallery uncovered a full-length cupid in [Vermeer's "Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window"](https://hyperallergic.com/vermeer-restoration-finally-complete-reveals-a-painting-within-a-painting/) — likely painted over by someone other than the artist.

Tiffany's wants you to think it inspired a [blue Basquiat painting](https://hyperallergic.com/tiffanys-wants-you-to-think-they-inspired-a-blue-basquiat-painting/) featured in a new advertisement starringBeyoncé and Jay-Z.

Catalyzed by student pressure, Harvard Law School [abandoned a logo](https://hyperallergic.com/harvard-law-school-ditches-logo-connected-to-slavery/) connected to an enslaver.

A show of over 200 Inca objects and a VR expedition will debut at the Boca Raton Museum in South Florida, a [hub of Peruvian heritage](https://hyperallergic.com/an-awe-inspiring-experience-of-machu-picchu-boca-raton-museum/) in the US.

### Awards & Accolades

- **Katherine Bradford** was awarded the 2021 Rappaport Prize.
- **Gabriel Barcia-Colombo** was named the 2021 Artist in Residence of the Neon Museum.
- **Becky Hoghton, Angela Fung, Sam Tahmassebi, Olly Fathers, Jacob Love, Olivia Martin Snowsill, Nina Miranda, Anna Kerman, Deborah Hobson,** and **Michal Raz** were shortlisted for the Concord Art Prize.
- **Rena Anakwe** and **Sana A. Malik** were bestowed the Canadian Women Artists' Award.
- Films by **Bestor Cram, Phil Bertelsen, Marc Shaffer, Greta Schiller, Julie Ha** and **Eugene Yi,** and **Sam Katz** and **James McGovern** are finalists for the 2021 Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film.

### Transitions

- **Laura Herrera** was named senior director of communications and content of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.
- **Tomokazu Matsuyama** is now represented by Kavi Gupta.
- **Camila Palomino** was named SculptureCenter's curatorial fellow.

### In Memoriam

- Elizabeth Blackadder (1931–2021), painter | [*Guardian*](https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/aug/25/dame-elizabeth-blackadder-obituary?ref=hyperallergic.com)
- Chuck Close (1940–2021), painter whose late career was marked by sexual harassment allegations | [*Vogue*](https://www.vogue.com/article/chuck-close-artist-curator-legacy?ref=hyperallergic.com)
- Eloise Greenfield (1929–2021), children's book author | [*Washington Post*](https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/eloise-greenfield-dead/2021/08/18/cce06742-ff66-11eb-a664-4f6de3e17ff0%5Fstory.html?ref=hyperallergic.com)
- Hiro (1930–2021), fashion photographer | [*New York Times*](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/18/style/hiro-dead.html?ref=hyperallergic.com)
- Peter Rehberg (1968–2021), composer | [*New York Times*](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/19/arts/music/peter-rehberg-dead.html?ref=hyperallergic.com)
- Kaari Upson (1970–2021), multimedia artist | [*Art Newspaper*](https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/kaari-upson-los-angeles-artist-who-obsessively-explored-identity-family-and-americana-has-died-aged-51?ref=hyperallergic.com)
- Peter Williams (1952–2021), painter | [*ARTnews*](https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/peter-williams-painter-dead-1234602131/?ref=hyperallergic.com)