> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://hyperallergic.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Week in Review: NYC Halts Essential Workers Monument; Polish Politicians Target LGBTQ Artist-Activists - URL: https://hyperallergic.com/week-in-review-nyc-halts-essential-workers-monument-polish-politicians-target-lgbtq-artist-activists/ - Published: 2021-07-01T19:29:38.000Z - Updated: 2025-11-24T16:38:31.000Z - Description: Also, artist-activists from Extinction Rebellion were arrested at a protest against media corruption, 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*. ## New York After Battery Park City residents urged the [relocation of an essential workers monument](https://hyperallergic.com/battery-park-city-essential-workers-monument-paused-after-local-pausethesaws-protest/), construction has been halted. Miguel Luciano designed an [“El Met” t-shirt](https://hyperallergic.com/miguel-luciano-el-met-tshirt-supports-metropolitan-museum-latinx-art-acquisitions/), which will be sold to help fund acquisitions of work by Latinx artists at the Metropolitan Museum. ## Activism Six local Polish governments [sued four artist-activists behind the “Atlas of Hate,”](https://hyperallergic.com/polish-politicians-sue-artist-activists-for-mapping-atlas-of-hate/) an interactive map charting the country’s anti-gay zones. Artist-activists from Extinction Rebellion were [arrested during protests against media corruption,](https://hyperallergic.com/extinction-rebellion-artist-activists-arrested-at-london-cut-the-crap-protests/) during which they dropped horse manure outside of the *Daily Mail* offices. ## Auctions Several looted Ethiopian artifacts were [withdrawn from sale at a British auction house](https://hyperallergic.com/looted-ethiopian-artifacts-withdrawn-from-british-auction-house-sale/), and are in talks to be repatriated. A painting by David Bowie, unknowingly purchased at a landfill for $5, [broke an auction record for the artist](https://hyperallergic.com/david-bowie-dhead-xlvi-painting-smashed-auction-record/). ## In Other News Scholars finally deciphered 3,200-year-old [Hittite rock reliefs](https://hyperallergic.com/scholars-decipher-hittite-yazilikaya-rock-temple-reliefs-depicting-cosmos/) that depict the cosmos. Thanks to an [artificial intelligence (AI) restoration](https://hyperallergic.com/artificial-intelligence-helps-reconstruct-the-night-watch-rembrandt/), Rembrandt’s “The Night Watch” can be seen in full for the first time in centuries. The owner of the “Flintstone’s House” in California won a lawsuit over the [dinosaur sculptures on her lawn](https://hyperallergic.com/california-flintstone-house-owner-settles-dinosaur-sculpture-lawsuit/). A portrait by Jean-Michel Basquiat, [painted on an apartment door in 1985](https://hyperallergic.com/dallas-museum-of-art-acquires-basquiat-apartment-door-painting/), was recently acquired by the Dallas Museum of Art. Introduced in Mesopotamia some 2,500 years ago, astrology continues to entice poets, writers, and artists. See a [visual history of the cosmological fascination here](https://hyperallergic.com/visual-history-astrology-library-of-esoterica-taschen/). ## Awards & Accolades - **Mahogany L. Browne** was named the inaugural poet-in-residence at Lincoln Center. - **Tim Mills, Natalie Willatt, Suzanne St Clare,** and **Tony Mallon** were appointed to artist residencies for *Picturing England’s High Streets*. - **Newark Arts** awarded grants to 17 community arts groups. | [Newark Arts](https://newarkarts.org/artstart/?ref=hyperallergic.com) - **Kiki Xuebing Wang** was awarded the John Moores Painting Prize Visitors’ Choice. - The recipients of the **Wexner Center's 2021–22 Artist Residency Awards** have been announced. | [Wexner Center](https://wexarts.org/press-release/wexner-center-arts-announces-recipients-its-2021-22-artist-residency-awards-and?utm%5Fsource=media&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=210629-2021ARAs) - The winners of the 2021 Rabkin Prize for arts journalists have been announced, including Hyperallergic editors **John Yau** and **Jasmine Weber**. ## Transitions - **Latifa** **Echakhch** is now represented by Pace Gallery. - **Sabrina Lin** was named curatorial assistant and manager of student programs at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. - **Lauren** **Snelling** was named artistic director of Young Arts, while **Rebekah** **Lanae** **Lengel** was appointed deputy director and **Tanya** **Reid** as vice president of finance. ## In Memoriam John Clem Clarke (1937–2021), Pop artist | [*New York Times*](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/28/arts/john-clem-clarke-dead.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) Frieda Fritzshall (1929–2021), founder of Illinois Holocaust Museum | [Patch](https://patch.com/illinois/skokie/illinois-holocaust-museum-president-fritzie-fritzhall-dies-91?ref=hyperallergic.com) Jon Hassell (1937–2021), composer and trumpeteer | [*Guardian*](https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/jun/28/jon-hassell-obituary?ref=hyperallergic.com) Paulo Mendes da Rocha (1928–2021), Pritzker Prize-winning architect | [*New York Times*](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/26/arts/design/paulo-mendes-da-rocha-dead.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) Patricia Reilly Giff (1935–2021), children's book author | [*Washington Post*](https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/patricia-reilly-giff-dead/2021/06/29/5a58c998-d811-11eb-bb9e-70fda8c37057%5Fstory.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) Frederic Rzewski (1938–2021), anti-establishment composer | [*New York Times*](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/27/arts/music/frederic-rzewski-dead.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) Menelik Shabazz (1954–2021), director and writer | [The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/jun/29/menelik-shabazz-pioneering-black-british-film-maker-dies-aged-67?ref=hyperallergic.com)