An Ode to the Year That Will Live on in Infamy

Good morning. ☀️ Today, artists withdrew from a Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago exhibition in soli

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Good morning. ☀️ Today, artists withdrew from a Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago exhibition in solidarity with workers who have been laid off, a leaked recording from the Detroit Institute of Art suggests a toxic workplace, and are we still stuck on the idea of the ownership of art.— Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief

An Ode to the Year That Will Live on in Infamy The Twenty Twenty exhibition at the Aldrich uses using hand drawing to record and describe the cascade of catastrophes that made 2020 feel like an entire decade. Seph Rodney

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Artists have withdrawn their work from an exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago in solidarity with workers at the museum who have been laid off over the past year, many of whom are people of color. A leaked recording of a confidential meeting at the Detroit Institute of Art reveals longstanding workplace issues at the museum. Deana Haggag is joining the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and will step down from her position as president and CEO of United States Artists next month.

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