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Good morning. ⛅️ Today, the US is urging the release of arts philanthropist Osman Kavala, the New Mexico Museum of Art and the state don’t seem to care about the destruction of a Chicano mural, and a new app allows you to insert BIPOC monuments into public spaces.

– Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief

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We Wear the Mask treads a fine line between opacity and revealing truth in its rawest form.

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Battery Park City Authority Introduces a Glass House to Belvedere Plaza

On view through spring 2022, Mildred Howard’s “The House That Will Not Pass For Any Color Than Its Own,” builds on the public art legacy of Manhattan’s Battery Park City.

Battery Park City Authority

Kwame Brathwaite, “Untitled (AJASS Model on Black Background)” (1970s/2019) (Collection Pérez Art Museum Miami, museum purchase with funds provided by Jorge M. Pérez, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, and PAMM Ambassadors for Black Art; all images courtesy PAMM)

What's Happening

Miami’s Pérez Art Museum has acquired acquired iconic images images by Gordon Parks and Kwame Brathwaite, and a vibrant painting by Tunji Adeniyi-Jones through their newly renamed Fund for Black Art.
US State Department urged Turkey to immediately release art philanthropist Osman Kavala and denounced the “specious charges against Kavala, his ongoing detention, and the continuing delays in the conclusion of his trial.”
The New Mexico Museum of Art and the state’s Department of Cultural Affairs are dismissing community concerns over the retirement of a historic Chicano mural.
The Monuments Project’s new AR App allows you to insert monumental figures of under-recognized icons like Shirley Chisholm and Toussaint Louverture into public spaces.

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