Simone Leigh, a Brooklyn-based sculptor whose large-scale works address the social histories and subjective experiences of Black women, will represent the United States at the next Venice Biennale in April 2022. The first African-American woman to receive this honor, among the art world’s most prestigious, Ms. Leigh was selected by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau…
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France’s National Assembly voted on Tuesday evening to pass a bill returning 27 colonial-era artefacts from French museums to Benin and Senegal. The vote comes almost three years after President Emmanuel Macron pledged in a speech in Burkina Faso to enable “the temporary or definitive restitution of African heritage to Africa” within five years. If…
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Radical empathy is the artist’s new job. Radical empathy is how the healing will begin, and it will begin with us, now.
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Organizations led by people of color win less grant money and are trusted less to make decisions about how to spend those funds than groups with white leaders, according to a new report by the consultancy Bridgespan and Echoing Green, an organization that invests in and provides support for leaders of emerging social enterprises. The differences described…
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LOCATED ON THE UPPER WEST SIDE of Manhattan, Misty Copeland‘s three-bedroom apartment was recently showcased by Architectural Digest (AD). She gave the design magazine’s audience a video tour. The home’s theme, she said, was works by artists fo color. In nearly every room, works by African American artists are on display. Nathaniel Mary Quinn‘s work hangs in the living…
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APRIL 18, 2017 Seeking sixty local arts groups to participate in a yearlong training program to improve racial equity in the arts and culture sector “The arts and culture field, like many other sectors, has historically over-emphasized diversity and audience engagement strategies. In our current political climate these interventions are more crucial than ever –…
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NOVEMBER 23, 2016 Angelique Power, President of the Field Foundation and her funding colleagues have been working together for two years in order to tackle one consistent problem: figuring out how to get more people of color into arts posts at local arts agencies around the city of Chicago. Learn more.
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Digital transformation is sweeping through Australian organisations, driving efficiencies, speeding up processes, cutting costs and helping them focus on what they do best. SEPTEMBER 01, 2020 New technology is sometimes associated with a reduction in headcount. However, organisations – including charities and not-for-profits – are finding it can free up staff to focus on the…
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17th December 2019 13:32 BST Virtual reality (VR) in museums and galleries has reached a fork in the road. On the one hand, it is increasingly being adopted by museums for education and entertainment; on the other, smaller non-profits are pushing artists to test the potential of the technology while it is still nascent. Underlying…
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