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July 2023
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Columbus Public Art Plan, photo credit John Ray_FulRay Productions
Featured Story:
Creating A Public Art Plan for Columbus

The Greater Columbus Arts Council has announced a year-long initiative to launch a public art plan. “A public art plan can create a road map for how a city can create more public art opportunities for both artists and residents,” says Holly Shen, Director, Lord Cultural Resources.

With joint funding provided by the City of Columbus and Franklin County Ohio, the Greater Columbus Arts Council (GCAC) has engaged Lord Cultural Resources to develop a plan that will guide the future of public art in the central Ohio region. LCR has partnered with Columbus-based cultural leaders Jonna Twigg and Marshall Shorts to help carry out the work. Read More

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At The ROM, Female Artists from The Islamic World Hunt for Metaphors In Being and Belonging
The Globe and Mail, July 21, 2023

The Bangladeshi artist Tayeba Begum Lipi is represented in a new show at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto by two very different types of work.

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OUR WORK WITH ROM
Bobby Orr Hall Of Fame Gets a New Look For 20th Birthday
My Parry Sound Now, July 19, 2023

Residents gathered at the Bobby Orr Hall of Fame on Tuesday to mark the unveiling of the Hall of Fame’s new look.

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OUR WORK WITH BOBBY ORR HALL OF FAME
Opinion: Residents and Visitors See Remai Modern's Value
Saskatoon StarPhoenix, July 19, 2023

Remai Modern's board chair highlights a few of the ways the museum has added value to the city since opening in 2017.

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OUR WORK WITH REMAI MODERN
A Look Inside the New Chinese Canadian Museum in Vancouver’s Chinatown
Maclean’s, July 6, 2023

The grand opening exhibit traces the exclusion of Chinese communities across the nation.

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OUR WORK WITH THE CHINESE CANADIAN MUSEUM
Tristram Hunt: The Young V&A Embraces Generation Alpha
The Art Newspaper, June 28, 2023

The new Young V&A will "build cultural confidence in the capital’s most disadvantaged borough," writes the director of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

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OUR WORK WITH V&A
IDEA
Hiring for Diversity? 10 Takeaways from the Supreme Court’s Affirmative-Action Ruling
The Chronicle of Philanthropy, July 13, 2023

The good news for diversity advocates is this: The Supreme Court’s ruling striking down race-conscious affirmative action in higher education has no direct bearing on their efforts in the nonprofit workplace, according to legal and human-relations experts as well as the federal government’s anti-discrimination agency.

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Row Over “Anti-Monument” in Mexico Ends in Victory for Feminist Activists
Hyperallergic, July 6, 2023

Local government has agreed to let a guerrilla artwork honoring Mexico’s femicide victims stand in the place of a dismantled Christopher Columbus statue.

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Female Forward: National Portrait Gallery Announces Women-Led Partnership with Magnum Photos
The Art Newspaper, June 29, 2023

Seven portraits of British women by female Magnum photographers will enter the permanent collection of London's newly reopened gallery as it attempts to balance a historic gender disparity.

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MUSEUMS
Notre Dame University Arts District to Expand With New Raclin Murphy Museum Of Art
Blooloop, July 19, 2023

The University of Notre Dame’s former Snite Museum of Art is reopening as the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art in a new building in the university’s arts district.

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Dallas Museum of Art Reveals Six Shortlisted Architectural Designs for Campus Revamp
The Art Newspaper, July 17, 2023

The museum is encouraging public input on the proposals and will announce a winner in August.

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Léuli Eshrāghi Named Indigenous Arts Curator at Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Art News, July 10, 2023

Eshrāghi will be responsible for developing exhibitions that highlight local and international Indigenous artists, as well as acquiring new works for the MMFA’s permanent collection.

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France Passes Law Allowing Museums to Restitute Nazi-Looted Artworks
Art News, July 3, 2023

The French National Assembly voted unanimously to adopt a new law that allows public institutions to return Nazi-looted objects in their collections, streamlining the country’s laborious process for restitution.

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David Adjaye Creates His First Permanent Public Sculpture at St Louis Museum
The Art Newspaper, June 29, 2023

The rammed earth sculpture at the Griot Museum of Black History was commissioned as part of Counterpublic triennial.

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Thunder Bay Museum announces its hosting of Behind Racism: Challenging the Way We Think
Anishinabek News, June 24, 2023

Designed and fabricated by the Ontario Science Centre in partnership with the Canadian Race Relations Foundation (CRRF), the exhibit shows how the mental processes that help us think and act quickly can lead to racism and discrimination.

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Buffalo AKG Art Museum Has Cut the Ribbon on a Major Overhaul—Guided by Major Input from Its Community
Artnet News, June 23, 2023

Formerly the Albright Knox Art Gallery, the museum has opened to the public after a three-year renovation by OMA.

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Toronto Holocaust Museum by Reich&Petch Opens
Canadian Architect, June 23, 2023

On June 8, 2023, the Toronto Holocaust Museum opened its doors to the public, unveiling the city’s only museum dedicated to Holocaust remembrance and education.

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ARCHITECTURE
Toronto’s New Courthouse Reveals The Limits Of What Architecture Can Do
The Globe and Mail, July 24, 2023

The Ontario Court of Justice, which opened earlier this year, is an extraordinarily refined public building. This is the first built work in Canada by international firm Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW), collaborating with Toronto firm Norr.

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Land Back!: When Radical Architects Took Over The Canada Pavilion
CBC, July 10, 2023

Architects Against Housing Alienation want their Venice Biennale show to revolutionize Canadian architecture.

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This Time, Herzog & de Meuron Are Inside the Museum
The New York Times, July 7, 2023

The architects behind museums in San Francisco, Miami and Minneapolis and the Powerhouse Arts Complex in Brooklyn are the subjects of a major exhibition in London.

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ART & CULTURE
New York Public Library Completes Major Schwarzman Building Renovation
Blooloop, July 26, 2023

The New York Public Library has announced that a number of significant upgrades to its iconic Stephen A. Schwarzman Building are now complete, further guaranteeing that it will remain a lively and welcoming destination for everybody.

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Drayton Entertainment to Transform Warehouse into Youth Arts Academy
Global News, July 17, 2023

A Waterloo warehouse is being converted into a cultural space for youth that will include rehearsal halls, music rooms and acting studios.

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With Art Colleges Closing, a Chicago Museum Has an Alternative
The New York Times, July 10, 2023

The cost of studying fine art is another fact that inspired a short-term intensive program led by artists of color that is an apprenticeship of sorts.

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Art Shines in Washington, D.C., This Summer. Here Are Four Ways to Make the Most of the Cultural Highlights
Artnet News, June 30, 2023

Make a day of it with these suggested art excursions in the nation's capital, with pauses for refreshment along the way.

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The Italian Fisher Taking on Industrial Deep-Sea Trawlers
Huck, June 29, 2023

Through his underwater sculpture museum, Paolo Fanciulli highlights the destruction of big fishing’s supply chain.

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TECHNOLOGY
Canada Softens Proposed Rules to Force Google and Meta Pay for News Content After Blocking Threats
The Wrap, July 11, 2023

The Canadian government is working to pare back the law that has driven Meta Platforms, Google and other tech companies to threaten to cut news links out of their feeds rather than share revenue with publishers.

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‘Omg Guys I’m Not an Intern’: How the Whitney Museum Won Over Threads by Going Goofy
Artnet News, July 11, 2023

The Whitney, The Guggenheim, and MCA Chicago are among the art spaces to sign up for and lean into Meta's new social media app Threads.

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'Go Outside and Protect What Already Exists': AI-Generated Dawn Chorus of Songbirds Has a Sinister Edge
The Art Newspaper, June 26, 2023

Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg's immersive collaboration with Superblue highlights declining numbers of songbirds.

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