Rio Art Museum could close due to lack of federal funding
Two directors left the museum last week, and 126 employees have received a dismissal notice
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Author: Museum Ethics
Moving to the suburbs: vast museum collections centre destined for ‘New Moscow’
State Tretyakov Gallery among 23 Russian museums planning to store and show works near former killing field Kommunarka
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Iraq’s national pavilion at Venice Biennale shut ‘in solidarity with popular youth uprisings’
Iraqi-Kurdish artist Serwan Baran supports the move by the Ruya Foundation, saying “the people will prevail as long as we are with them”
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Interview | Lonnie Bunch on founding the Smithsonian’s African American history museum and drawing inspiration from Lincoln
As his new book is released, the new secretary of the Smithsonian Institution talks of extending its reach beyond Washington
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Art trove belonging to Russian billionaire fugitive found hidden in village near Moscow
Investigators find paintings and rare books missing from private museum belonging to banker Alexei Ananyev accused of alleged financial crimes
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‘Public art is propaganda, frankly’: Hank Willis Thomas discusses gun violence and the urgent need for alternative memorials
A host of the artist’s exhibitions and public projects open in various locations across the US open this year
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Invoking his own great-grandfather, an artist considers the fragmented history of Syrian artefacts
A Met exhibition explores fraught acquisitions in museum collections with the aim of kickstarting new conversations
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Seven arrested at protest during MoMA’s public opening
Demonstrators blocked the museum’s entrance and sat in the street as they demanded the removal of Steven Tananbaum — a financier whose company owns $2.5bn in Puerto Rican debt — from its board of trustees
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Beirut art spaces close en-masse as huge anti-government protests take over the city
Artists and institutions come out in support of protestors who are demanding political reforms in Lebanon
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Nearly 500 protesters stage Anti-Columbus Day history tour at New York museums
After being blocked from entering the American Museum of Natural History, decolonization demonstrators took to the streets, ending at the Metropolitan Museum’s steps.
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