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Kennedy Center Begins Staff Layoffs

03/28/2026

The Kennedy Center began laying off staff on Thursday, according to a report in the Washington Post. The cuts, which employees say affected multiple departments, are tied to President Donald Trump’s plan to shut down the Washington, D.C., cultural institution …

Метки : искусствосокращенияthe kennedy centerdonald trumpреконструкцияпротесты

Chile’s New Far-Right President is Slashing the Culture Budget

03/24/2026

Chile’s New Far-Right President is Slashing the Culture Budget Chile’s freshly-inaugurated president, the far-right politician José Antonio Kast, has announced a budget cut of 3 percent across all ministries; this is just one facet of what Kast calls his“emergency” government, …

Метки : чили#культурабюджетполитикаправые движенияпротесты

Trump Installs Christopher Columbus Statue at White House

03/23/2026

A statue of Christopher Columbus was installed early Sunday on the White House grounds, as part of President Trump’s effort to restore the explorer’s public standing after monuments to him were removed across the country in 2020. The sculpture was …

Метки : политикапамятникиисторическая памятьпротестыискусствосша

Statue Removed During Protests to Be Reinstated in Washington D.C.

03/23/2026

Six years after the city of Wilmington, Delaware, took it down in the midst of Black Lives Matter protests that roiled the United States, the National Park Service plans to reinstate a statue of Caesar Rodney—a signer of the Declaration …

Метки : история.памятникирабствополитикапротесты250-летие

Open Letter Calls for Israel to be Banned from Venice Biennale

03/17/2026

The activist group Art Not Genocide Alliance released an open letter this week demanding that the Venice Biennale prevent Israel from participating in this year’s exhibition. The letter has been signed by nearly 200 artists, curators, and arts workers associated …

Метки : fondation vasarelyсовременное искусствовыставкаретроспективаживописьтайнавенецианская биенналеизраильпротестыискусствобойкотарт-активизм

US Holocaust Museum Denounces Tim Walz for Anne Frank ICE Comparison

01/28/2026

The US Holocaust Memorial Museum pushed back against Minnesota Governor Tim Walz this week after he compared victims of ICE raids in his state to Anne Frank, a Jewish girl who was killed in a concentration camp during the Holocaust. …

Метки : анна фрайхолокостiceминнеаполиспротестыантисемитизм

Minneapolis Institute of Art Closes Again After Alex Pretti Killing

01/26/2026

The Minneapolis Institute of Art, the city’s leading art museum, announced on Sunday that it would remain closed on Sunday “for the safety of staff and visitors,” according to a statement posted to Instagram. The institution was one of many …

Метки : искусствоминнесотапротестыстрельбабезопасностьобщество

M HKA Says Government Plan to Dissolve Museum Is Illegal

01/06/2026

A plan by the Flemish government to dissolve M HKA, a beloved contemporary art institution in Antwerp, has come under further fire, with a legal review initiated by the museum now claiming that such a move would be illegal. VRT …

Метки : искусствомузейфламандское правительствосовременное искусствоантверпенпротесты

Artist Withdraws Painting from Kochi-Muziris Biennale After Protests

01/05/2026

One week after an exhibition associated with India’s top biennial, the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, closed to due to religious protests, the offending painting has been withdrawn from the show. The work, Supper at a Nunnery by Tom Vattakuzhy, was being exhibited …

Метки : искусствопротестыиндияkochi biennaleкартинасвобода искусства

In 2025, Censorship and Firings Defined a Fractured Art World

12/29/2025

In its 2024 Year-in-Review, ARTnews noted a widening schism in the art world, defined by a moral fault: the continued support of Israel amid the destruction of Gaza. A year later—and more than three years into what a UN commission …

Метки : искусствоцензураполитикавыставкисвобода выраженияпротесты

A Searing Petition Protests Serbia’s Venice Biennale Pick

12/11/2025

It seems the US is not the only country whose Venice Biennale pick is stirring up discontent in the arts community back home. Prague-based artist Predrag Đaković was tapped to represent Serbia at the 2026 Venice Biennale with a project …

Метки : венецианская биенналесербияискусство#культурапротестыпредраг джаковић

Louvre Jewels Thieves Evaded Police by a 'Hair's Breadth'

12/11/2025

The thieves who stole jewelry from the Louvre evaded capture in October “by a hair’s breadth,” a senior official from the administrative inquiry into the museum’s security failings told the French Senate on Wednesday, as reported by Le Figaro. Noël …

Метки : лувркражабезопасностьдрагоценностимузейпротесты

Protesters Storm Nigeria's New Museum, Forcing Abrupt End to Event

11/11/2025

After more than five years in development, Nigeria’s glitzy Museum of West African Art (MOWAA) in Benin City was set to host a series of preview events this week ahead of a grand public opening on Tuesday. Instead, it was …

Метки : музейпротестызападная африканигерияискусствоистория.

Activists Protest Cai Guo-Qiang at Centre Pompidou

10/27/2025

A fireworks show by Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang outside the Centre Pompidou in Paris last week drew condemnation from activists who previously called for a boycott of the artist earlier this year. The Paris performance, titled Le Dernier Carnival (The …

Метки : искусствотибетцай гуо-цяньсобытияэкологияпротесты