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Hamline University professor fired for ‘Islamophobia’ was unjustly vilified, report says
Hamline University, a small liberal arts college in Minnesota, made headlines earlier this year after non-renewal of the contract by assistant professor Erika López Prater, who showed figurative interpretations of …
The Denver Museum of Science & Nature (DMSN) will close its 45th anniversary North American Indian cultures exhibition this summer, citing concerns the display contains harmful stereotypes, centers white culture, …
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THE Art for Justice Fund founded by a collector, philanthropist and president emeritus of the Museum of Modern Art Agnes Gund to support artists and programs working to end mass …
A view of Hunt Slonem’s ‘Thunderbunny’ (2021) before the May 21 vandalism incident (photo courtesy of Hunt Slonem) Raise your hand if the mere sight of a work of art …
Agnes Gund’s Art for Justice Fund awards major grant to Center for Art & Advocacy
The Art for Justice Fund, the initiative founded by activist philanthropist Agnes Gund in 2017, today announced the launch of a new organization, the Center for Art & Advocacy. The …
If Kenneth Anger understood anything, it was that cinema was the ultimate ritual of an otherworldly realm. Anger, avant-garde and experimental filmmaker, actor, quasi-Hollywood occultist and seer and author of …
Remembering the late experimental filmmaker Kenneth Anger through 6 of his most fantastically transgressive works
Kenneth Anger, the experimental filmmaker and author whose work galvanized avant-garde cinema, has died, reported his gallery, Sprüth Magers. He was 96 years old. “Kenneth was a trailblazer,” read a …
Danish Golden Age Artists Primed Their Canvases With Danish Golden Ale, New Research Shows
The Danish Golden Age just got a little more golden, thanks to a team of experts who inadvertently corroborated, for the first time, that artists of the time used beer …