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Moving away from approaches that merely “add and stir” historically excluded art and creative traditions into a set of canonical narratives, the Brooklyn Museum is exploring new paths forward in research, interpretation and care for collections that are inspired by the ways strategically undervalued communities see and experience the world.
In June, the New York State Court of Appeals issued a six-to-one ruling that allowed the city to move forward with its plans to demolish the garden.
And that is why Bridget [Phillipson, Secretary of State for Education, Minister for Women & Equalities] and I have kickstarted a review of the curriculum to put arts, sports and music back at the heart of our schools and communities where it belongs."
Creatives like the multi-disciplinary artist Cosmo Whyte, the photographer Myra Greene and the painter Gerald Lovell were able to “make names for themselves beyond the boundaries of Atlanta … by cultivating relationships that started from within the community”, Johnson says.
Standing to speak at the Fort Gibson National Cemetery, in Oklahoma, her youngest son spoke movingly about what she’d been like as a parent, recalling moments from his childhood, including a time when she dived to rescue him from the bottom of a lake.
Last week, like the Jews of Exodus painting blood on their lintels, hundreds of thousands of Instagram users posted a block of text to their accounts hoping to avoid the plague of artificial intelligence online.
Founded in 1776 by Maria Theresa, the Empress of Austria, the state-run Pinacoteca di Brera possesses one of Milan’s richest and most varied public art collections, including works by Tintoretto, Rubens, Van Dyck, Mantegna, Caravaggio, Titian and Bellini, as well as Francesco Hayez’s beloved painting The Kiss (around 1859).
The museum released an 80-second video featuring Lady Gaga, who stars opposite Phoenix’s Joker as his maniacal love interest Harleen Quinzel, bopping through the Louvre’s halls, pointing finger guns at priceless works of art.
“We have a culture of erasing the past in Brazil, but racism is finally no longer being ignored.” Mendes Wood DM has since signed Afro Brazilian artists such as Sonia Gomes and Rosana Paulino, the latter of whom currently has a show of paintings, botanical drawings and installations at the house museum of Eva Klabin in Rio.
Among the artists currently represented in the collection are many women, including Magdalena Abakanowicz, Mária Bartuszová, Sarah Lucas, Ewa Juszkiewicz, Sandra Mujinga, Senga Nengudi, Alina Szapocznikow, Rebecca H. Quaytman and Vivian Suter, she says.
The typical BGIAS meetup sees the women have a private tour of an exhibition dedicated to work by a Black artist at a commercial gallery, museum or other art space, followed by a guided conversation about what they have just seen and then a meal together.
A late Lucian Freud painting of Ria Kirby, an art handler at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, is appearing at auction for the first time during Frieze week next month, with an estimate of £10m to £15m.