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Ai Weiwei's Citywide Public Art Project Elicits Protest From Village Neighborhood Group

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08/29/2017

This fall, Ai Weiwei and the Public Art Fund will team up for a massive citywide art exhibition titled Good Fences Make Good Neighbors, which will see the installation of more than 300 pieces throughout the five boroughs. The project is one of Ai’s...

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Seaport Museum's 110-Year-Old Lightship To Be Restored To Its Glory Days

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08/29/2017

One of the South Street Seaport Museum’s most prized possessions is set to undergo a major restoration. The Museum announced on Monday that the city had contributed $4.5 million towards restoring the Lightship Ambrose, which is currently docked at...

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Donors Offer Berkshire Museum $1 Million To Delay, Study Art Sale; Board President Turns It Down

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08/28/2017

A group that emerged Friday has company in wanting the Berkshire Museum to hit the brakes on a planned auction. But what it put on the table may stand alone: $1 million.

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The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Supports Exhibition of Contemporary Women Abstractionists

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08/25/2017

The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has provided support for an exhibition at the Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane University titled Unfamiliar Again: Contemporary Women Abstractionists featuring the work of seven artists who hail from across...

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Ford Report Finds that Boards of NYC Museums Lack Diversity

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08/24/2017

Although they operate in a sprawling megalopolis that prides itself on its racial and ethnic diversity, many of New York City's arts and cultural organizations have boards that are predominantly white, a New York Times report funded by Ford...

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Charlie Parker Jazz Festival Kicks Off Next Week, Supported by Capital One Bank, Doris Duke and Gilman Foundations

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08/17/2017

City Parks Foundation announced the 25th Anniversary celebration of the Charlie Parker Jazz Festival, which is New York City's annual salute to the legendary late saxophonist, featuring storied veteran players as well as young jazz musicians,

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Grantmakers in the Arts Selects Edwin Torres as New CEO

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08/16/2017

Edwin Torres, deputy commissioner of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, has been selected by the Grantmakers in the Arts (GIA) board of directors as the organization’s new president & CEO. Torres will become GIA’s third CEO after...

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Leon Levy Foundation Funds Civil War Brooklyn Historical Research via the BAM Online Archive

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08/14/2017

It is always a cause for celebration when new archival history resources go online — especially for the enthusiastic digger of sometimes obscure history. Brooklyn history buffs have a new source of information (and distraction) thanks to the...

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The Uncertain Road Ahead for Culture in New York City

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08/14/2017

Michelle Coffey, Kerry McCarthy, and Michele Kumi Baer of the New York City Cultural Agenda Fund in The New York Community Trust ask how NYC plans to fulfill many of the important efforts identified in the City's recently unveiled Cultural Plan.

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The Mertz Gilmore Foundation Funds Contemporary Dance

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08/11/2017

Valerie Green/Dance Entropy's Impermanent Landscape , a contemporary dance performance in the round choreographed by Valerie Green and supported by the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, will be performed at Dance at the Voelker Orth Museum and Garden.

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