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Andrea Bowers’s artwork Open Secret at Art Basel. Photo: FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP/Getty Images

Artist Andrea Bowers Apologizes Over Tone-Deaf #MeToo Piece at Art Basel

“While I believe Bowers’s work is well-intentioned, to use women’s names and stories—and in Helen [Donahue]’s case, photographs of her face—without their consent in a work about consent strikes me as irresponsible at best.” – Deirdre Coyle (The Cut)

Hong Kong Pavilion at Venice Biennale Closes Amid Extradition Bill Protests

Artists and cultural workers have been among the most vocal critics of the draft law. (South China Morning Post)

Petition Filed to Create First Union for Guggenheim Museum Staff

The pay scales of workers at prestigious museums are gaining increasing attention. (New York Times)

Fifteen Young LGBTQ Artists Driving Contemporary Art Forward

Fifteen artists share the ideas behind their work and their most recent artistic endeavors. (Artsy)

Tate Britain Hangs a Diverse Display of Women Artists Out of Its Permanent Collection

The collection of sixty women artists from the museum’s permanent collection tackles the tricky terrain of museum representation. (Hyperallergic)

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Photo Credit: Fay Fox

Facebook to Meet #WeTheNipple Campaigners Amid Nudity Censorship Row

The company’s announcement comes after a protest outside its New York headquarters, co-organized by the National Coalition Against Censorship and artist Spencer Tunick. CAA is one of over 250 signatories on the NCAC’s open letter to Facebook. (CNN)

‘It’s Helpful to Know All Scales’: Online Spreadsheet Discloses Museum Workers’ Salaries

In a sign of increasing demand for transparency at art institutions, hundreds of arts workers have anonymously shared their salary and employment information in an online spreadsheet. (ARTnews)

Protests at Oberlin Labeled a Bakery Racist. Now, the College Has Been Ordered to Pay $11 Million for Libel.

The verdict comes at a time of heightened scrutiny of free speech on college campuses. (Washington Post)

Stonewall: When Resistance Became Too Loud to Ignore

A look at the exhibitions marking the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, in conjunction with LGBTQ Pride Month. (New York Times)

Artists in 18 Major US Museums Are 85% White and 87% Male, Study Says

Researchers surveyed the collections of 18 major US museums to quantify the gender, ethnic, and racial composition of the artists represented in their collections. (Hyperallergic)

Biggest Offender in Outsize Debt: Graduate Schools

New data shows that the market for master’s degrees behaves in strange and erratic ways. (New York Times)

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Portion of Mary Sully’s The Indian Church (1938-45), on view in Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Collection of Philip J. Deloria.

Native American Women Artists Finally Get Their Due in New Minneapolis Exhibition

Women made ninety percent of the Native American art you see in museums, but you might never know it. (The Art Newspaper)

MFA Bans Two Patrons After Students Of Color Say They Were Subjected To Racist Comments

The incident has sparked a wider conversation about how encyclopedic museums—rooted in European colonialism—can transform into institutions that reflect communities outside their walls. (WBUR)

Related: Racism At The MFA Doesn’t Shock Me. I Grew Up In Boston

Universities Try to Catch up to Their Growing Latinx Populations

Like many US colleges, Indiana University Northwest is seeing a sharp rise in Latinx students—but support for them is lagging. (The Hechinger Report)

Two Transgender Activists Are Getting a Monument in New York

Part of New York City’s effort “to fix a glaring gender gap in public art,” a monument honoring Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera will be erected in Greenwich Village. (New York Times)

Four Years of College, $0 in Debt: How Some Countries Make Higher Education Affordable

Read responses from around the globe. (New York Times)

‘There Were Women Working Then, Too’: How Dia Director Jessica Morgan Is Breaking Open the (Male) Canon of Postwar Art

An interview with director Jessica Morgan on her vision for the Dia Art Foundation’s future. (artnet News)

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Kehinde Wiley, Portrait of Moerai Matuanui, 2019. Courtesy Templon, Paris & Brussels, © 2019 Kehinde Wiley, via artnet News

Artist Kehinde Wiley’s Latest Paintings Are a Progressive Riposte to Paul Gauguin’s Primitivist Portraits of Tahitians

“My job as a looker, as a creator, as a thinker, is to somehow imagine a newness within that bankrupt vocabulary.” (artnet News)

Last-Minute Tenure Threat

A professor’s future at the University of Mississippi was uncertain as the statewide governing board debated his social media record. (Inside Higher Ed)

Decolonizing and Diversifying Are Two Different Things: A Workshop Case Study

A helpful explainer focused on decolonial pedagogical tools, adapted from a CAA 2019 workshop. (Art History Teaching Resources)

Want to Help Struggling College Students? Support the Low-Paid Staff Who Teach Them

A case for why untenured faculty are a 2020 campaign issue. (ThinkProgress)

Craft, Queer Art, and the Canon: Sheila Pepe on Moving Through the Margins

An interview with former CAA board member Sheila Pepe on art, queerness, and craft. (Artspace)

Smarthistory’s Expanding the Renaissance Initiative

A new initiative will work towards art histories that “do not present European art as superior and help to weaken the binary western/non-western paradigm.” (Smarthistory)

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One of the 13 murals that make up “The Life of Washington” at George Washington High School in San Francisco. Photo: Jim Wilson/New York Times

These High School Murals Depict an Ugly History. Should They Go?

The San Francisco school board will make a decision about the thirteen murals that make up “The Life of Washington” this spring. (New York Times)

Western Museums Have a Surplus of Art by White Men. Now Some Are Selling It Off to Correct Their Historical Biases

The work of three North American museums may offer a blueprint. (artnet News)

CalArts Students Collaborate with Cooper Union Alumni in Their Fight Against Rising Tuition

After CalArts announced a tuition hike in March, students have been participating in a bigger conversation around the transparency and values of arts institutions. (Hyperallergic)

Money, Ethics, Art: Can Museums Police Themselves?

“In the space of barely a year, the very foundations of museums—the money that sustains them, the art that fills them, the decision makers that run them—have been called into question. And there’s no end to questioning in sight.” (New York Times)

How to Build How to Build a College Art Collection on a Budget of Fumes

A great resource from Hudson County Community College, which has grown its collection to over 1,200 artworks since 2006. (RAAMP)

Why Female Artists Have Used the Self-Portrait to Demand Their Place in Art History

Female self-portraiture has changed dramatically over time, but it continues to transgress expectations. (Artsy)

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Artist NEVE performs at “I wanna be with you everywhere (IWBWYE),” a three-day festival “of, by, and for” disabled artists and writers, via Hyperallergic.

A Georgetown Student Defends the Reparations Referendum

“I have no interest in seeing Georgetown co-opt this referendum as its own contribution.” Last month, Georgetown University undergraduates voted overwhelmingly to tax themselves to create a reparations fund. (The Atlantic)

University of Texas Graduate Students Hold “Grade-In” at UT Tower

Student workers at UT Austin rallied this week to demand better pay and tuition coverage. (KXAN Austin)

Parenting and Labor in the Art World: A Call to Arms

Last month, MoMA PS1 agreed to settle curator and editor Nikki Columbus’s claim of gender, pregnancy, and caregiver discrimination. But what is the larger context of this landmark case? (Hyperallergic)

A Performance Festival by and for Disabled Artists

A look at how arts organizers can move beyond compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and instead embrace “access intimacy.” (Hyperallergic)

This Dealer Fought for African-American Artists for Decades—Now the Market Is Paying Attention

“When I called realtors to try and find a space on 57th Street, most of the realtors hung up. They said, ‘Well, what kind of gallery are you going to have?’ And I said, ‘I have a gallery that shows the work of black artists’—clink.” – Linda Goode Bryant (Artsy)

Three Changes Higher Ed Leaders Should Be Ready to Make

Higher education leaders met with journalists last week at the Education Writers Association’s National Seminar. Here are their top three takeaways. (Education Dive)

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Works by Swedish painter Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) in the Guggenheim Museum’s Paintings for the Future exhibition. Photo: Johannes Schmitt-Tegge/picture-alliance/dpa/AP

What Can the Museum World Learn From Hilma af Klint?

“I think this shows us that we have narrowed the field of ‘blockbuster’ artists to a very small number of men. But there are other great artists that capture the imagination of the public.” – Helen Molesworth (Slate)

Experts Warn Macron Against Rushing to Rebuild Notre-Dame

More than 1,150 artists, curators, academics, and leading conservators have publicly called on the French president not to rush into reconstruction. (France 24)

US Museum Asks Far-Right German Party to Stop Using Its Painting for an Election Ad

The Clark Art Institute condemned the use of a Jean-Léon Gérôme painting in its collection, but the work is in the public domain. (Hyperallergic)

One of World’s Wealthiest Educational Institutions May Close Its Renowned Press

“The fragile truce surrounding Stanford University Press remains cause for concern, but the scale and rapidity of the mobilization that rose up to defend the press is reason for guarded optimism.” (The Nation)

Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art Launches Digital Archives

The Digital Archives Initiative (DAI) was made possible through partnerships with institutions and artists’ estates worldwide. (Artforum)

Making Monographs Open

A project that aims to slash the cost of producing monographs could help make more of them available to the public for free. But will scholars participate? (Inside Higher Ed)

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A master conservator demonstrating a technique for removing contaminants from a Botticelli fresco in the Sistine Chapel. Photo by Robert Polidori for WSJ Magazine, via artnet News

Proposed Cut of Stanford University Press’s Subsidy Sparks Outrage

The proposal has prompted discussion on the value of a university press to its parent institution as well as an open letter from the larger academic community. (Chronicle of Higher Ed)

Preserving the Sistine Chapel Is a Never-Ending Task. See Behind-the-Scenes Photos of What It Takes

The name of the game? Constant vigilance. (artnet News)

Rediscovering the Confederate Flag of Truce

Sonya Clark, a professor of art and art history at Amherst College, is presenting the flag as a counterweight to the familiar battle flag of the Confederacy. (New York Times)

This Open Source Software Could Make Museum Websites More Accessible

The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago has created a tool that seamlessly integrates image descriptions into its online platform. (Artsy)

Mónica Ramírez Talks The Bandana Project, Her Latinidad, And Her Career In Farmworkers Advocacy

Explore an art-activism project from the organizer who helped create the #TimesUp movement. (Forbes)

A Widely Cited Statistic That Supposedly Proved Student Debt Was a Rich Person Problem Was the Result of a Coding Error

The statistic popped up frequently in conversation about Elizabeth Warren’s education plan. (Slate)

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Credit: Andrew Tallon/Vassar College

Art Historian’s Laser Mapping Project Could Help Save Notre Dame

A professor at Vassar College painstakingly scanned the cathedral in 2015. His work may now help architects and engineers rebuild it. (CNN)

Elizabeth Warren’s Higher Education Plan: Cancel Student Debt and Eliminate Tuition

Announced Monday, Warren’s $1.25 trillion policy proposal aims to reshape higher education. (New York Times)

TED-Style Art History Platform Aims to Promote Arts Education Online

Explore short films about art history from artists, curators, and academics, available for free online at HENI Talks. (The Art Newspaper)

The Death of an Adjunct

“Thea Hunter was a promising, brilliant scholar.” (The Atlantic)

This App Can Tell You the Indigenous History of the Land You Live On

A free online tool that seeks to map Indigenous languages, treaties, and territories. (Native Land)

An Illustrated Database for Women Artists Spans the 15th to 19th Centuries

A Space of Their Own aims to compile the most comprehensive resource to date. (Hyperallergic)

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The congressional leaders who are spearheading the charge for a Smithsonian Women’s History Museum. Courtesy American Museum of Women’s History Congressional Commission, via artnet News.

Will the United States Finally Get a National Women’s History Museum? Congress Just Introduced Two Bipartisan Bills to Build One

Susan Collins and Diane Feinstein have teamed up on the Senate bill, while Carolyn Maloney has introduced companion legislation in the House. (artnet News)

The Implicit Punishment of Daring to Go to College When Poor

Only nine percent of people from the lowest income quartile receive a bachelor’s degree by the age of 24, compared to 77 percent for the top income quartile. (New York Times)

Will Artificial Intelligence Make the College Classroom More Accessible?

New tools designed to help institutions meet accessibility requirements could possibly personalize learning for all students. (Education Dive)

Audience Engagement Is Not Community Engagement

An important distinction on two widely used terms. (Americans for the Arts)

Art Institute Postpones Major Native American Pottery Exhibit over Cultural Insensitivity Concerns

The postponement occurs against a backdrop of museums’ increasing sensitivity to the cultures they present. (Chicago Tribune)

This Is How You Kill a Profession

“College faculty were not defeated after great struggle, after a battle with a winner and a loser. College has simply been redefined, over and over, in ways that make faculty irrelevant.” (Chronicle of Higher Ed)