Juliana Notari’s “Diva,” a massive, concrete and resin vulva sculpture built on a hillside in Pernambuco, Brazil, has prompted outrage from conservative groups.The most recent excavation of a 15th-century Aztec shrine revealed the skulls of 119 men, women, and children.The Valentine Richmond History Center in Virginia wants to display a Jefferson Davis statue created by artist Edward Valentine, the museum’s first president and a major Confederate sculptor.The Amsterdam District Court rejected claims from the heirs of a Jewish art collector that a 1909 painting by Kandinsky in Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum was sold under Nazi-era duress and should be returned.As of January 1, the public domain includes classics like F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, Alain Locke’s The New Negro, and the silent film “Lovers in Quarantine.”Transitions Jim Coddington has joined the Joan Mitchell Foundation‘s board of directors. Amanda Coulson was announced as the founding director of TERN Gallery. Douglas Melini is now represented by Miles McEnery Gallery. VICTORI + MO is changing its name to Dinner Gallery.In MemoriamRoderice Cardell (1987–2021), South Carolina artist involved in painting a local Black Lives Matter mural | Fox Carolina Anthony Gauthier (1942–2020), Wisconsin mural artist | Green Bay Press Gazette Maury Berggren (1938–2021), Kansas stained-glass artist | The Mercury MF Doom (1971–2020), popular rapper and record producer | Rolling Stone Kim Tschang-Yeul (1929–2021), abstract artist | ARTnews |
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