July 13, 2021

Good morning. ☁️

We’re back from a much needed break. So let’s get to work. Today, photographing New York’s forgotten springs and wells, a Harvard Museum returns Chief Standing Bear’s tomahawk, and artists have requested to have their work removed from the Museum of Chinese in America’s collection.

— Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief

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From artists Colin Chin and Nicholas Liem's series Documenting Persistence in Oakland’s Chinatown

• Artists request the removal of their work from the Museum of Chinese in America’s collection after accepting funding from NYC as part of a jail expansion plan.
• Members of the Sackler family have been temporarily banned from slapping their name on art institutions. Nan Goldin among most vocal critics.
• The Peabody Museum will return Chief Standing Bear’s tomahawk in a joint agreement with the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska and the Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma.
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