Andrew Cole on teaching and activism
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MORE SUMMER HIGHLIGHTS: The Politics of Everyday Life: Silvia Federici on women, Julie Ault on gentrification, Joseph Vogl on money, Alan Berger on infrastructure, Elizabeth Povinelli on the environment, Honey Dijon on nightlife, Cultural Appropriation: A Roundtable
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8/21/17
Alt-Right Politician Protests Kassel’s Acquisition of Documenta 14 Artwork- Ramon Boixados Malé (1927–2017)
- Wang Bing Wins Golden Leopard Award at Seventieth Locarno Film Festival
- Hammer Names Associate Director and Senior Curator of Grunwald Center for Graphic Arts
- ICC Orders Jihadist to Pay $3.2 Million in Reparations for Destruction of Cultural Heritage
8/18/17
Philadelphia to Install First Public Statue to Honor an African American- Gunnar Birkerts (1925–2017)
- San Diego Art Institute Appoints New Executive Director
- India Art Fair Names Jagdip Jagpal Director
- Members of White House Presidential Arts Commission Resign En Masse
- Chiara Fumai (1978–2017)
- World’s First Partition Museum Opens in India
8/17/17
Brooklyn Museum Announces Curatorial Appointments- 55th New York Film Festival Reveals Lineup for Projections
- Denver Art Museum Moves Forward with $150 Million Renovation
- Man Steals Bronze Horse from Florida Gallery
8/16/17
Yayoi Kusama Museum Will Open in Tokyo this October- Duane Michals Wins German Society for Photography’s Culture Prize
- Baltimore Removes Confederate Statues Under Cover of Night
- Blanton Museum of Art Acquires Trove of Leon Polk Smith Works
- Nassau County Museum of Art Appoints Charles A. Riley II as Director
- London’s Garden Bridge Venture Jettisoned After $48 Million Thrown into Project
- Scotland Yard’s Art and Antiquities Unit En Route to Shutdown
- Artist Advocacy Group Launches Boot Camp to Help Artists Run for Office
8/15/17
Tshiamo Naledi Letlhogonolo Pinky Mayeng (1993–2017)- Washington, DC’s National Gallery of Art Announces New Staff Appointments
- Russian Government Confiscates Gogol Theater Director’s Passport
- David Roberts to Close London Gallery and Open Sculpture Park in Somerset
- Block Museum of Art Receives $1 Million Gift
- Stolen de Kooning Returned to Arizona Museum After Nearly Thirty-Two Years
8/14/17
Artist Inflates Fifteen-Foot Trump Rat in NYC- Susan Dackerman to Lead Stanford University’s Cantor Center for Visual Arts
- Creative Time Raises Nari Ward’s Breathing Flag
- Ringling Appoints Sarah Cartwright Curator of Collections
- Basilio Martín Patino (1930–2017)
- Swedish Photography Center to Open Museum in London
- Artists Evicted from Beijing’s Caochangdi Art District
- Southern Lawmakers Call for Review of Public Artworks After Charlottesville Rally
8/11/17
São Paulo Dealers Launch New Art Fair- Arlene Gottfried (1950–2017)
- Martha Rosler Wins 2017 Hamburg Lichtwark Prize
- Hashem El Madani (1928–2017)
- NALAC Announces New Grants for Latinx Artists
- New York Public Library Names Salvatore Scibona Director of Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers
8/10/17
Artist Tags Twitter’s Hamburg Headquarters with Hate Speech Drawn from the Social-Media Site- Pam Tanowitz Wins Baryshnikov Arts Center Prize
- NADA New York to Hold 2018 Edition in West SoHo
- More Than Three Hundred African Artworks Gifted to Williams College Museum of Art
8/9/17
NY MoMA to Sell More Than Four Hundred Photographs to Support Its Acquisition Fund- B&H Photo Video Workers Blame NYC Mayor for Warehouse Closures
- Claudio Abate (1943–2017)
- North Korean Artists Defy Kim Jong-un by Participating in United Nations Exhibition
- John McKinnon Appointed Executive Director of Elmhurst Art Museum
- Pope.L to Bottle Contaminated Flint Water and Sell It in Detroit
- ProyectosLA Announces Participating Galleries, Artists, and Theme
- Artists Haffendi Anuar and Jesse Wine Receive First Powerhouse Sculpture Commission
8/8/17
Fifth Edition of Ghetto Biennale Announces Participating Artists- Zack Ingram Wins Inaugural $15,000 Tito’s Prize
- London’s National Portrait Gallery Declares Opposition to National Gallery’s Expansion Plan
- Parisian Mosaics Stolen by Men Posing as City Workers
- Pussy Riot Members Detained by Russian Authorities for Protesting Filmmaker’s Incarceration
8/7/17
Beatriz Salinas Marambio Named Director of Chile’s National Center for Contemporary Art- Martin Roth (1955–2017)
8/4/17
Della Watkins Joins Columbia Museum of Art as Director- Bauhaus Building Is Among Recipients of Getty’s 2017 Preservation Grants
- Hammer Curator Defends Jimmie Durham Exhibition
- Liverpool Biennial Appoints New Trustees
- National Academy of Art Members Rally Behind Dana Schutz
- Walker Art Center’s Deputy Director Steps Down
8/3/17
New International Festival Attempts to Revive Venetian Glass Industry- Graham Foundation Awards $400,000 to Organizations for Making Advancements in Architecture
- MoMA Names Michelle Elligott Chief of Archives, Library, and Research Collections
- Israeli Authorities Bust Antiquities Dealers Allegedly Involved in Hobby Lobby Scandal
- ProjectArt Appoints Chana Budgazad Sheldon as Miami Director and National Program Advisor
8/2/17
Concetto Pozzati (1935–2017)- Nadine Wietlisbach Named Director of Switzerland’s Fotomuseum Winterthur
- Collector Budi Tek Awarded Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor
- NEH Awards $39.3 Million in Last Round of Grants for 2017
8/1/17
Harold M. Williams (1928–2017)- Bill Sherman Appointed Director of Warburg Institute
- Arrested Turkish Cartoonist Releases Statement Rebutting Charges
- Woman Apprehended for Stealing Basquiat Work
- Third Work Vandalized at Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017
- Authorities Seize Ancient Vase from Metropolitan Museum
7/31/17
Birkenstock CEO Loses Lawsuit Brought Against Kunsthaus Hamburg and Artist Ida Ekblad- Sam Shepard (1943–2017)
- ArtCenter/South Florida Names Dennis Scholl President and Chief Executive and Announces Expansion Plans
- Robert HN Ho Family Foundation Announces Recipients of Greater China Research Grant
- Javier Pes Steps Down as Editor of Art Newspaper
- Canadian Government Denies “Culturally Significant” Status for Collection of Annie Leibovitz Photographs
- Jeanne Moreau (1928–2017)
7/29/17
Metropolitan Museum of Art Announces New Senior Staff Appointments- Mitch Cairns Wins $80,000 Archibald Prize
7/28/17
Whitney Museum Receives Major Gift of Archival Materials Related to Edward Hopper- Artist Pension Trust Faces Backlash over Storage Fees
- Cleveland Museum of Art Extends Director William Griswold’s Contract
- Inaugural South American Biennial to Kick Off in September
- Pat Brassington Awarded Inaugural $50,000 Don Macfarlane Prize
- Houston Awards Nearly $3.5 Million in Arts and Cultural Grants
- MCA Chicago Adds Sheikh Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi to Its Board of Trustees
7/27/17
Sam Durant Wins deCordova Sculpture Park’s 2017 Rappaport Prize- South Korea Sentences Six Former Officials for Blacklisting Artists
- Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Receives Major Photography Gift
- Twenty-Six-Year Legal Dispute over Nazi-Looted Klee Masterpiece Is Settled
- Dina Bangdel (1964–2017)
- Katherine Brinson Named Guggenheim Museum’s First Daskalopoulos Curator, Contemporary Art
- Arts Writers Rally Behind Village Voice’s Union
- Opening of Menil Collection’s Drawing Institute Delayed
7/26/17
Barry Till, Curator at Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Retires- Ei Arakawa’s Skulptur Projekte Münster Work Restored
- Dana Schutz’s ICA Boston Exhibition Sparks Protests
- San Antonio Museum of Art Gifted Thirty-One Portraits by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
- Ringling Museum Appoints Rhiannon Paget Curator of Asian Art
- Frye Art Museum Names Amanda Donnan Curator
- Philippe de Montebello, Former Director of the Metropolitan Museum, to Lead Acquavella Galleries
- Collector Faces Prison Sentence and $100 Million Fine for Smuggling a Picasso
- Gift of Annie Leibovitz Photos to Nova Scotia Museum Encounters Delays
- Cady Noland Sues Collector and Dealers for Copyright Infringement
7/25/17
Syrian Film Collective Accuses Milan Triennale of Screening Its Works Sans Consent- Merion Estes and Mario Martinez Given 2017 Murray Reich Distinguished Artist Awards
- University of Chicago Library Receives Nearly Five Hundred Vivian Maier Photographs
- Condo Fair to Launch in Mexico City and Shanghai Next Year
- Berkshire Museum Faces Uproar over Sale of Artworks from Collection
7/24/17
Robert Loder (1934–2017)- Fire at French Maritime Museum Destroys Three Paintings from the Louvre
- BAM Names Ashley Clark Senior Programmer of Cinema
- University of Michigan Museum of Art Hires New Director
- Raymond Sackler (1920–2017)
- Istanbul Biennial Announces Artists for Fifteenth Edition
- Lygia Pape’s Daughter Sues LG Electronics for Copyright Infringement
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