City Officials allege that the artwork is technically a sign but gallery owner Jack Shainman maintains that is an artwork, and its display is protected.

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City Officials allege that the artwork is technically a sign but gallery owner Jack Shainman maintains that is an artwork, and its display is protected.
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The Netherlands in the 17th Century was a global empire that sprawled its tentacles in many parts of Africa, Asia, and South America. An economic power, it led the world in…
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Whitley has quickly risen to become one of the world’s closely watched curators. In 2019 Whitley organised the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
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The politician Matteo Salvini made Italian ports off limits to rescue ships helping stranded migrants making the dangerous journey to Europe from North Africa.
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Casely-Hayford is renowned for bringing postcolonial perspectives on Africa to a wider audience through his work as a curator, writer, broadcaster and lecturer.
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In her new role, Angiama will oversee the organisation’s commissioning and accessioning of new artworks by Britain-based artists of African and/or Asian descent.
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The senior civil service union says the closure will inevitably lead to potential redundancies, uncertainty and other complications for National Portrait Gallery staff and urged them to join a union to support them through any changes.
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Co-founded by filmmaker and Star Wars creator George Lucas and his wife, businesswoman Mellody Hobson, the $1 billion art museum currently under construction, will showcase the couple’s 100,000-item collection.
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The Sackler Family is accused of pushing doctors to prescribe Oxycontin and misrepresented its risk factors, contributing to the opioid crisis that is gripping the US.
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Manchester Museum is the first UK institution to return looted art.
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Gloria Steinem, the statue’s most vocal critics, told the New York Times that the design was “not enough,” and that the proposal made it look like Anthony and Stanton “are standing on the names of these other women.”
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The first sign was erected in 2007 and was stolen the following year. The second one was riddled with bullet holes and the third was shot up 35 days later.
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Brown joins the museum at a moment of widespread change as BMA places major emphasis on diversity, equity, and access.
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Over 200 prominent artists, scholars, and critics signed an open letter entreating New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMa) and its board member Larry Fink to end their investments in…
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Born in 1986, Kambel created hundreds of oil paintings before his dad could no longer afford the expensive supplies. Undeterred, Kambel grabbed cardboard from the trash and started to create sculptures of iconic Philadelphia buildings
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With just two characters — a professor and her student — discussing the American Revolution in the professor’s office, how complicated could it get?