Mimi Thi Nguyen on the politics of the hijab
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MORE SUMMER HIGHLIGHTS: The Politics of Everyday Life: Silvia Federici on women, Simon Critchley on activism, Ed Ruscha on the NEA, Julie Ault on gentrification, Joseph Vogl on money, Mabel Wilson on space, Alan Berger on infrastructure, Elizabeth Povinelli on the environment, Honey Dijon on nightlife, Amy Taubin on Quest, Cultural Appropriation: A Roundtable
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6/29/17
Arts Council England’s Grant Program Shifts Focus from London to Regions6/28/17
Hammer Museum Names Erin Christovale Assistant Curator- Family of Franz West Wins Court Battle Over Artist’s Estate
- Norway Abandons Jonas Dahlberg’s Memorial to Victims of Utøya Massacre
- Berlin’s Silberkuppe Gallery Closes
- Russian Artist Arrested for Wearing VR Headset in Moscow
- Condo New York Opens Thursday
6/27/17
Art Gallery of Ontario Appoints Four New Curators- New York’s MoMA Receives $50 Million Gift
- Palais de Tokyo Names Artists for Its First US Exhibition with Expo Chicago 2017
- Shortlist Announced for 2017 Jarman Award
- Arts Council England Grant Saves Arts Space in Walsall
- François Pinault Reveals Plans for New Contemporary Art Museum in Paris
6/26/17
Merryn Schriever Appointed as Director of Bonhams Australia- Judge Orders Exhumation of Salvador Dalí’s Body for Paternity Suit
- German Collector Announces Plans for New Museum in Bavaria
- Anthony Goicolea to Design First LGBTQ Monument Commissioned by New York State
- Julia Joern Leaves David Zwirner Gallery
- Hans Breder (1935–2017)
- Marco Scotini Named Curator of Second Yinchuan Biennale
6/23/17
Richard Benson (1943–2017)- Paulus Berensohn (1933–2017)
- Art Gallery of Ontario Acquires 522 Diane Arbus Photographs
- UK to Digitize All of Its Public Sculptures by 2020
- Julia Peyton-Jones Joins Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac as Senior Global Director
- OMA Reveals Design for Buffalo’s Albright-Knox Art Gallery Expansion
- Benjamin Sullivan Wins 2017 BP Portrait Award
- London’s White Rainbow Gallery Closes Its Doors
6/22/17
Congresswoman Wants to Forgive Arts Professionals’ Student Debt- World Monuments Fund Launches Initiative to Train Refugees in Conservation
- Sunday Painter Gallery Relocates to London’s Vauxhall District
- Detroit’s 2017 Kresge Artist Fellows Announced
- New York’s Envoy Enterprises to Close in August
- CalArts Names Dimitri Chamblas as Dean of Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance
- Artist Sheba Chhachhi Wins 2017 Prix Thun for Art and Ethics Award
- Kassel City Council Approves Plan to Build Documenta Institute
6/21/17
Erin B. Coe to Lead Penn State University’s Palmer Museum of Art- Sylvie Patry Named Deputy Director of Musée d’Orsay
- Jeff Koons Sculpture for Victims of Paris Terror Attacks Met With Reservations
- Thai Military Censors Gallery in Bangkok
6/20/17
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art Employees Resign En Masse- Village Voice Staff Fight to Keep their Historic Union
- Five Italian Museum Directors Reinstated After Dismissal
- NYC Pledges to Create 10,000 Jobs in Creative Industries
- Sarah Glennie to Step Down as Director of Irish Museum of Modern Art
- Thieves Steal Ei Arakawa Work at Skulptur Projekte Münster
- Photographer Arrested on Greek Island at Anti-Refugee Rally
6/19/17
Art Forgers Accused of Selling Fake Damien Hirst Prints Arrested- Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Announces 2017 Grantees
- Jan Prasens Appointed Managing Director of Sotheby’s Europe
- Art Basel’s Baloise Art Prize Awarded to Martha Atienza and Sam Pulitzer
- Thief Steals $12 Million in Art from Queens Storage
6/16/17
Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros to Gift 119 Works to Five Museums- Villa Romana Announces 2018 Fellows
- Khadija Saye (1992–2017)
- New York’s Museum of Sex Appoints Serge Becker as Creative and Artistic Director
- Paul O’Neill to Join Checkpoint Helsinki as Artistic Director
6/15/17
Tracy K. Smith Named Poet Laureate- Collector Bruce Berman Gifts 186 Photographs to J. Paul Getty Museum
- Classicist Receives Death Threats from Alt-Right over Art Historical Essay
- NEA Awards $84 Million in Final Round of Major Grants
- New Hamptons Art Fair to Launch in July
6/14/17
Longtime Noguchi Museum Director Jenny Dixon to Step Down- Toby Kamps Named Director of Blaffer Art Museum
- ICA London Appoints Wolfgang Tillmans, Collector Delya Allakhverdova, and Arts Patron Maria Sukkar to Its Council
- Australia’s Art Gallery of New South Wales Receives $184 Million Grant
- Featuring 291 Galleries, Art Basel’s 48th Edition Opens Thursday
6/13/17
Edit deAk (1950–2017)- LACMA Adds Three New Trustees
- Louvre Reopens After Evacuation Due to Heightened Security Measures
- New York Gallery On Stellar Rays to Close and Reopen as Stellar Projects
- Artists Announced for 2017 Yokohama Triennale
- Daniel H. Weiss Named CEO of New York’s Metropolitan Museum
- Artist's Studio Vandalized by Animal Rights Group Angered by Documenta 14 Work
- National Museum of Women in the Arts Receives $9 Million Bequest
- New York’s Public Theater Issues Statement Defending Its Staging of Julius Caesar
6/12/17
MoMA Film Curator Dave Kehr Awarded Insignia of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters- Winners of 2017 Swiss Art Awards Announced
6/11/17
Agnes Gund Sells Lichtenstein Canvas to Start Fund for Criminal Justice6/9/17
Inaugural Kuala Lumpur Biennale to Open in November- LACMA Launches Kickstarter Campaign to Bring Guatemalan Museum to US
- Roma Artists to Open Cultural Institute in Berlin
- Zwelethu Mthethwa Sentenced to Eighteen Years in Prison for Murdering Sex Worker
6/8/17
Hemma Schmutz to Lead Austria’s Lentos Kunstmuseum and Nordico Stadtmuseum- Astha Butail Named BMW Art Journey Award Winner
- Artadia Names 2017 Houston Award Winners
- Hauser & Wirth to Represent Fondazione Piero Manzoni
- Former Sotheby’s Specialist Accused of Fraud May Face Twenty-Five Years in Prison
- Maeve Brennan and Imran Perretta Win 2018 Jerwood/FVU Awards
- Karole P. B. Vail Named Director of Peggy Guggenheim Collection
6/7/17
Following Terror Attacks, London Museums Pledge to Remain “Safe, Open, and Welcoming to All”- Rockefeller Estate Auctions Art Collection to Benefit Charities
- Weisman Art Museum Appoints Boris Oicherman as Curator for Creative Collaboration
- Katelijne De Backer to Join PULSE as Director
- Katie Hollander to Step Down as Executive Director of Creative Time
- Curators Gabriel Ritter, Jen Mergel, and Naomi Beckwith Brought on for 2018 Armory Show
- Ghost Ship Managers Charged With Thirty-Six Counts of Involuntary Manslaughter
- Documenta 14 in Kassel and Skulptur Projekte Münster Open Saturday
6/6/17
Benjamin Cho (1976–2017)- Dakota Nation Debates Whether to Burn Sam Durant’s Scaffold
- Ground Broken for $16 Million Linda Pace Foundation in Texas
- Police Squash Banksy’s Illegal Offer to Send Free Prints to Anti-Tory Voters
- Former Employee Files $21 Million Lawsuit Against Artist Dale Chihuly
- UK Art World Uneasy About Brexit Negotiations as Election Approaches
6/5/17
Los Angeles’s ACME. Gallery to Close After More Than Two Decades- Cleveland Museum Appoints Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi Curator of African Art
- Art Hamptons and Art Southampton Fairs Cancel 2017 Editions
- Former Louvre Director Plans to Donate Collection to Town in Northern France
6/3/17
Valerie Cassel Oliver Named Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts6/2/17
Tate Britain Plans to Rehang Its Entire Collection- Institute of American Indian Arts Receives Donation of Suzan Harjo Archives
- William Pope.L Wins 2017 Bucksbaum Award
- Lisson Gallery to Close Its Milan Space
- Frick Collection Expands Pay-What-You-Wish Hours
- Art Basel Files Lawsuit Against Adidas for Trademark Infringement
- Chad Dawkins Named Director of Exhibitions at Southwest School of Art
6/1/17
Germany’s Museum Schloss Moyland Embroiled in Legal Dispute- Whitney Museum Appoints Kim Conaty Curator of Drawings and Prints
- Myriam Ben Salah to Curate 2018 Abraaj Group Art Prize Exhibition
- Contemporary Austin Transfers Seven Hundred Works to the Blanton Museum of Art
- Noose Found Inside Washington’s National African American Museum
- Louise Bernard to Lead Obama Presidential Center Museum
- New York’s MoMA Reveals Designs for $400 Million Expansion Project
- Sam Durant’s Scaffold to be Dismantled and Burned in Dakota-Led Ceremony
- Vero Beach Museum of Art Appoints Danielle Johnson Curator
5/31/17
Marie Cosindas (1923–2017)- Mount Tremper Arts Names Crystal Wei Executive Director
- Eungie Joo Appointed SFMoMA’s First Curator of Contemporary Art
- Norman Foster Foundation Opens June 1 in Madrid
- New York Public Library Acquires Archive of Jazz Artist Sonny Rollins
- Cleveland Triennial Announces Launch of Artist Residency Program
- Recipients of Russia’s 2017 Innovation Awards Announced
- LGBTQI Refugee Group Steals Documenta 14 Artwork
5/30/17
Fundraising Campaign Launched for New Arts Center on Sidney Nolan Estate- Swedish Professor Helps Bust Italian Art Theft Ring
- Carmen Herrera–Designed Mural to Be Painted by Bronx Students
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