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Black artist detained by police in his gallery residency in South Carolina

John Sims, a Black artist and activist whose work explores the symbols of white supremacy, became an allegory unto himself this week when he was detained and questioned by police officers in his apartment at the 701 Center for Contemporary Art in Columbia, South Carolina, where he is the artist in residence. His current multidisciplinary…

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Rembrandt’s work joins with art by Black and Indigenous artists at the National Gallery of Canada this spring

An exhibition dedicated to Rembrandt is coming to the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa in May, the first major loan show of the Old Master’s work in the country in more than 50 years. Rembrandt in Amsterdam: Creativity and Competition will include paintings, drawings and prints from the artist’s first two decades working in…

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