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“Like everyone working in Scotland’s culture and creative sector, we understand the extreme pressures on public finances," he said, "but want to see longer-term budget certainty from the Scottish government, including the additional £100m announced in October 2023, details of which have yet to emerge."
The two-part show reveals like never before how theft was used as a means of erasing Jewish identity, writes Ambassador (ret) Stuart E. Eizenstat, the chair of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, and the curator Julie-Marthe Cohen
At 7:30 in the morning on Wednesday (21 August), in a parking lot just a couple miles west of the 2024 Democratic National Convention’s (DNC) main venue in Chicago, the Los Angeles-based artist Autumn Breon was restocking her hot pink Care Machine (2023) with tampons and little packages of lubricant.
Especially in Texas, with its large Mexican American population, they faced pressure from political-machine bosses to support particular candidates, threats from their employers that they would lose their jobs if they joined supposedly insurgent political parties, and primaries in which only non-Latino white voters were allowed to participate, which were outlawed only in the nineteen-forties.
Arthur Jafa's work in film, sculpture and installation explores Black being with an unflinching eye for systemic and historic inequity and violence and an exuberant harnessing of disparate manifestations of Black—and particularly African American—culture.
The Brighton pavilion has been a conservation nightmare ever since the early 19th century, when the architect John Nash completed the transformation of a relatively modest classical mansion into a fantasy Oriental palace for the wildly extravagant Prince Regent, the future George IV.
We were excited about the chance to foster cross-cultural dialogue and deepen the understanding of art through the unique lens of African mythology, while appreciating the stories from paintings within the National Gallery that have inspired us—and continue to do so.
While working for him both there and in Avignon, she came up with a strikingly original idea for making promotional stills for productions: in an effort to capture the essence of the dramas, Varda, in lieu of shooting rehearsals, decided to “restage the scene so it played to the camera.” In the process, Rickey writes, she “developed and refined an array of skills.
In the 17th century, the house was a school, where the trust believes girls may have learned the hobby of paper cutting from their teacher Hannah Woolley, who included it in her 1668 book of household management, A Guide to Ladies, Gentlewomen and Maids.
Organisations such as the non-profit Hypha Studios are nonetheless offering innovative solutions to the workspace crisis, by persuading commercial landlords to let artists work and exhibit for free in unoccupied stores and offices.
“Antisemitic incidents in the UK are currently at an all-time high, and many Jews in the art world feel they are being marginalised and silenced for showing sympathy with the victims of the 7 October attacks by Hamas terrorists and expressing the view that their continued holding of hostages is responsible for this terrible war,” the letter read.
This year’s grantees include the Ira Aldridge Theater at Howard University in Washington, DC—which will use the funds to educate the public about its architect, Hilyard Robinson—and the John F. Kennedy Community Center in Buffalo, New York, which will create a comprehensive preservation plan for its Robert T. Coles-designed building.