75+ NYC Galleries Sued Because Their Websites Aren’t Accessible To Blind People
Like the lawsuits targeting other businesses, the claims against galleries tend to identify websites that lack special code that would
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Americans For The Arts Expands Programs For Cultural Equity And Diversity In Arts Leadership
This year the organization will extend its 25-year-old Diversity in Arts Leadership program beyond New York City to New Jersey and Iowa,
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Chicago’s Museum Of Contemporary Art Offers Discount To Anyone Affected By Gender Pay Gap
As of February 24, “anyone who believes the gender pay gap has negatively impacted their earning potential” may pay $12 for admission to the MCA. That’s 80% of the normal ticket price ($15). — Hyperallergic
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Why Johns Hopkins Is Buying The Newseum Building
The purchase is an opportunity to position the university, literally, to better contribute its expertise to national- and international-policy discussions.
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Artist Activist Group Urges Artists To Withhold Work From Upcoming Whitney Biennial
“The group, which advocates for sustainable economic relationships between artists and institutions, is urging the artists who will be invited to participate in the 2019 Whitney Biennial to withhold their works in solidarity with the museum’s staff and to demand compensation for the labor that went into making the pieces that will be included in […]
Ten-Year Restoration Of Tutankhamen’s Tomb Is Finally Complete
“In 2009, with help from the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities, the [Getty Conservation Institute] brought in a team of environmental engineers, architects and designers to improve the tomb’s infrastructure, an Egyptologist to conduct background research, microbiologists to study the brown spots, and conservators to treat the walls. Together, they carried out the most intensive study […]
At Manhattan’s New Museum, Workers Vote To Unionize
Associate curators, art handlers, and staff at the front desk, gift shop, and museum bookstore will now be represented by the United Auto Workers. The vote was 38 to 8. — The New York Times
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National Museum Of Brazil Opens Its First Exhibition Since Disastrous Fire
The show, housed at another Rio museum, the Palace of the House of Money, features fossils found in Antarctica. Eight of the items on display, including a pterodactyl bone, were recovered from the museum’s ashes, the other 152 in the show were b…
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Director Of The Uffizi Demands Germany Return Painting
Eike Schmidt, who is German himself, said Berlin had a moral duty to give back the painting, Vase of Flowers, by the 18th century Dutch artist Jan van Huysum. It was looted from Florence by German soldiers in 1944 and is now owned privately by a Germa…
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