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Artists Wanted to Make a Pro-Palestine Statement. The Brooklyn Museum Said No.

Jan 21, 2025 | hyperallergic.com | Valentina Di Liscia

A group of artists asked the museum to alter their artwork displays with keffiyehs after the institution failed to take a “clear public moral stance” on Gaza.
Have Pro-Palestine Artworks Been Censored in Your State?

May 22, 2024 | hyperallergic.com | Valentina Di Liscia

A new online map launched this week by the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) tracks the suppression of pro-Palestine voices in the United States arts and culture sectors in a powerful visualization of an alarming trend.
Artist Kehinde Wiley Accused of Sexual Assault

May 20, 2024 | hyperallergic.com | Valentina Di Liscia

Editor’s Note: The following story contains mentions of sexual assault and harassment. To reach the National Sexual Assault Hotline, call 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or visit online.rainn.org. The American painter Kehinde Wiley, best known for his 2018 portrait of President Barack Obama, has been accused of sexual assault. In a statement published on Instagram yesterday, May 19, Ghanaian artist Joseph Awuah-Darko alleged that Wiley assaulted him twice during an event in Ghana in 2021.
Top Art Patrons Discussed Deploying NYPD Against Columbia Students

May 17, 2024 | hyperallergic.com | Valentina Di Liscia

Billionaire art collectors and art-world stakeholders discussed ways to get police to disband pro-Palestine student protests at Columbia University, according to chat messages obtained by the Washington Post.
Leonora Carrington Masterpiece Sells for $28.5M, Shattering Records

May 16, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Valentina Di Liscia

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Leonora Carrington Masterpiece Sells for $28.5M, Shattering Records

May 16, 2024 | hyperallergic.com | Valentina Di Liscia

Eduardo F. Costantini, the Argentinian businessman, real-estate developer, and founder of the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA), is the confirmed buyer of a 1945 masterpiece by the British-born Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington. “Les Distractions de Dagobert” fetched $28.5 million with fees at Sotheby’s in New York last night, May 16, with two bidders sparring until Costantini stepped in with a decisive phone bid that sealed the deal.
Art Alluding to Pro-Palestine Slogan Nixed From Miami Beach Display

May 9, 2024 | hyperallergic.com | Valentina Di Liscia

More than 300 South Florida arts workers have signed an open letter in solidarity with artist Khánh Nguyên Hoàng Vũ, whose work alluding to the phrase “from the river to the sea” was abruptly removed from a Miami Beach display organized by the local nonprofit Oolite Arts.
Pro-Palestine Protesters Arrested Outside the Met Gala

May 6, 2024 | hyperallergic.com | Valentina Di Liscia

As celebrities posed for the cameras on the Met Gala red carpet, hundreds of pro-Palestine protesters marched across Manhattan’s Upper East Side tonight, May 6, during the annual fundraiser for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute. A heavy police presence surrounded the museum with steel barricades, street closures, and dozens of armed officers blocking demonstrators.
8 Art Shows to See in New York City, May 2024

May 1, 2024 | hyperallergic.com | Hrag Vartanian |Hakim Bishara |Valentina Di Liscia |Daniel Larkin

Maybe it’s something in the springtime air — all the new growth and wild nature — but fantastical landscapes and creatures seem abundant in galleries this month. While Sanam Khatibi’s uncanny scenes feel like memento mori transplanted to a land between life and death and Joy Curtis’s strange anatomies reimagine life as we know it, Hell Gette’s brightly colored worlds combine art history with a Saturday morning cartoon aesthetic.
See Photos From the Historic March for Public Education in Argentina

Apr 24, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Valentina Di Liscia

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