February 27, 2020
Smithsonian Institute Releases 2.8 Million Images for Public Use
Now entering the public domain are items from the institute’s many museums, research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.
Monica Castillo
A New Film Series Teases Out the Complex History of Black Heroines On Screen
“Each film in the series, in its own way, provides a more authentic connection to Black women’s expression, stories and experiences,” said Dara Ojugbele, one of the curators of the two-week program at MoMA.
Beandrea July
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Sony World Photography Awards Removes Hong Kong Protest Images
The World Photography Organization said the images could potentially “contradict the competition’s terms and conditions.”
After South Carolina Debate, Artist Letter Endorsing Bernie Sanders Reaches Over 2,500 Signatures
2,579 artists have signed the “Artists4Bernie” open letter endorsing the Vermont Senator as the Democratic presidential nominee.
In Blow to LACMA, Major Donor Ends Decades-long Gift Program
The Ahmanson Foundation, a Los Angeles-based organization that supported the LACMA for more than six decades, has ceased gifts to the museum citing concerns over plans for its new building.
Censored Video by Xandra Ibarra Might Go Back on View
During a public meeting at the Centro de Artes in San Antonio, Texas, the center's committee voted to reinstall Xandra Ibarra's work.
Santa Fe Historic Board Says Pro-Palestinian Mural Must Go
The Santa Fe Historic Districts Review Board officially ruled that property owner Guthrie Miller must remove the public-facing mural on the corner of Old Pecos Trail and Camino Lejo, on Santa Fe’s east side.
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SITE Santa Fe Presents DISPLACED: Contemporary Artists Confront the Global Refugee Crisis
The museum’s latest major exhibition illuminates complexities surrounding the global crisis to reignite a sense of common humanity. On view March 21–September 6.
Jennie Livingston On Paris Is Burning 30 Years Later
As her landmark documentary on the ’80s ballroom scene enters the Criterion Collection, Hyperallergic talks to the director about the film’s influence and what she could have done differently.
Willow Catelyn Maclay
An Artist Finds Inspiration in a Novel Suppressed Under Stalin
Irena Haiduk materializes the fictional spaces in Mikhail Bulgakov’s Master and Margarita, imbuing them with her own imagination and creating the alternative realities Bulgakov’s Stalinist government so feared.
Ksenia M. Soboleva
A Chance to Buy Postcards by Women Artists, Including Guerrilla Girls
Ahead of International Women’s Day on March 8, Art on a Postcard is offering postcard-sized works starting at $65 to help eliminate Hepatitis C in women’s prisons.
Monica Castillo
New Mexico Names Levi Romero as First Poet Laureate
The state’s first ever poet laureate is a bilingual lowrider, professor of Chicano studies, and trained architect who plans to travel the state in a 1958 Chevrolet Impala during his three-year term.
Molly Boyle
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