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The Whitney Canceled Their Exhibition. Now Those Artists Want Reform

September 18, 2020

The NY Times - The Whitney Museum of American Art had planned to show an exhibition of artistic responses to the coronavirus pandemic and Black Lives Matter demonstrations shortly after reopening. - read more ...

The Africa Center Is Commemorating the End of Slavery in the US With a Three-Story Black Lives Matter Installation

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June 23, 2020

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Artnet - The Africa Center in New York is celebrating Juneteenth, the holiday marking the end of slavery in the US, with a new 45-foot-tall window display proclaiming the message “Black Lives Matter.” - read m...

Want to See Michelangelo Again? The Vatican Museums Are Reopening Next Week

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May 15, 2020

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artnet news - What will reopening look like for the Vatican Museums, which have been closed since March 9? Mandatory face masks, temperature checks at entry, and strict social distancing requirements. - read mo...

“Rather than attempt to reconcile museums’ contradictions, we should start again”

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May 15, 2020

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dezeen - In late summer 1939, in anticipation of the imminent start of the second world war, all the paintings in London's National Gallery were taken down and transported to an old slate mine in Wales for safe...

Climate activists urge British Museum to reject BP funding, as Arctic exhibition announced

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January 14, 2020

Art and Culture, Museums

The Art Newspaper - The British Museum has announced a “bold and ambitious” exhibition exploring how Arctic peoples who have lived with extreme weather for millennia are at the front line of man-made climate ch...

Puerto Rico’s Museums Face Devastating Losses After a Spate of Earthquakes Struck the Island

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January 14, 2020

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artnet news - Puerto Rico has experienced a series of increasingly strong earthquakes in recent days, culminating in a 6.4 earthquake on Tuesday that triggered a widespread blackout, leveled buildings, and kill...

Can MoMA’s Expansion Ever Really Be Finished?

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October 16, 2019

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artnet news - The grand, gleaming architectural and curatorial complex that is the new Museum of Modern Art is the work of hundreds of specialists, patrons, designers, and other visionaries. But it is above al...

Understanding Vermeer’s Mysteries, beyond “Girl with a Pearl Earring”

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July 24, 2019

Museums, Spotlight

Artsy - Only about 34 canvases survive from Johannes Vermeer’s enigmatic oeuvre (a 35th is disputed). The Dutch artist’s most famous work is undoubtedly Girl with a Pearl Earring (ca. 1665), which features a “t...

Lunar landing anniversary inspires tributes to the Moon across the globe

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July 23, 2019

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The Art Newspaper - To commemorate Apollo 11’s historic journey on 16 July 1969, museums, galleries and institutions around the world have been turning their sights skyward, launching exhibitions devoted to our...

Germany returning Stone Cross artifact to Namibia

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May 22, 2019

Art and Society, Museums

DW - A Berlin museum said it is returning the Stone Cross of Cape Cross, a key cultural artifact, to Namibia. The cross, placed on Namibia's coast by Portuguese explorers in 1486, is a symbol of the country's c...