Simone Leigh will represent the US at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022, making her the first Black woman to secure the prestigious commission. Leigh was selected by theU.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Her ...
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A London Museum Wants to Relocate a Statue of Its Slave-Trader Founder
London’s Geffrye Museum has changed its name to the Museum of Home, but the institution’s statue of former namesake Robert Geffrye, an English merchant and slave trader, is still a source of controversy—and the government is preventing the ...
RELEASE OF DISSIDENT CUBAN ARTIST
Artists Dawoud Bey, Theaster Gates, John Akomfrah, Julie Mehretu, and Carrie Mae Weems are among those calling for the release of Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, who has been in police custody at a hospital in Havana for over three weeks. The Cuban ...