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Space race: how the pandemic is pushing museums to rethink design

As US art institutions consider how they welcome visitors and guard their health in a vastly changed environment, the coronavirus pandemic is spurring a deeper rethinking of future museum design. After a nationwide shutdown in March, many museums have gingerly reopened with stringent social distancing rules that profoundly affect the flow of people through entrances…

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British-Chinese artist Gordon Cheung left out of pocket by Shanghai gallery

Gordon Cheung advises younger artists to ensure that they establish contracts with galleries A persistent problem for artists is getting paid, and with the global pandemic this is only likely to get worse, as galleries plead poverty or even go out of business. A case in point is a ten-year dispute between a British-Chinese artist,…

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France’s National Assembly votes to return colonial-era artefacts to Benin and Senegal

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 Theatre Artist’s New Job

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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Nonprofits Led by People of Color Win Less Grant Money With More Strings (Study)

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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Ballet Icon Misty Copeland is a Budding Collector of African American Art

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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Racial Justice Group Launches “Racial Equity in the Arts Innovation Lab” in New York City

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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Fighting to End Racial Inequity in Arts Funding

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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Black Funding of the Arts Matters

<div class=”fb-post” data-href=”https://www.facebook.com/ArtmovezPodcasts/posts/171728754575723″ data-show-text=”true” data-width=””><blockquote cite=”https://www.facebook.com/ArtmovezPodcasts/posts/171728754575723″ class=”fb-xfbml-parse-ignore”>Posted by <a href=”https://www.facebook.com/ArtmovezPodcasts/”>Art Movez Podcast</a> on&nbsp;<a href=”https://www.facebook.com/ArtmovezPodcasts/posts/171728754575723″>Tuesday, September 1, 2020</a></blockquote></div>

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Why Not-For-Profit CFOS Need to Implement Digital Transformation

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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