| More than 30 people helped create a Black Lives Matter mural outside of the São Paulo Museum of Art the day after the death of João Alberto Silveira Freitas, a Black man murdered by police.Cultural workers in Mexico City, who have gone unpaid for months, have declared a “total suspension of labor” to advocate for better working conditions.The Philadelphia Museum of Art closed to the public once again. With the second lockdown, the museum announced another wave of furloughs, spurring outrage from workers.As the United Kingdom emerges from its second lockdown, Tate announced a plan to cut 120 full-time jobs at its London galleries through voluntary redundancies.Workers at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Film at Lincoln Center in New York voted to unionize. Full-time faculty at the University of the Arts (UArts) in Philadelphia also voted for a union.Follow the continuing mystery of the unusual monoliths that are popping up around the world.Awards & Accolades Zdenka Badovinac was named this year’s Igor Zabel Award laureate. Slavcho Dimitrov, Katalin Erdődi, and Ivana Bago were awarded Igor Zabel Award Grants.Finalists for the $50,000 Bennett Prize are Sophia-Yemisi Adeyemo-Ross, Tanmaya Bingham, Chloe Chiasson, June Glasson, Holly Keogh, Lavely Miller, Rebecca Orcutt, Ayana Ross, Su Su, and Amy Werntz. The winners of the 2020 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize for nonfiction and fiction/poetry, are Ruha Benjamin (2020 Nonfiction Prize for Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code) and Ocean Vuong (2020 Fiction and Poetry Prize for On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous). Yvette Mutumba and Julia Grosse were awarded the 2020 European Cultural Manager of the Year Award.PEN America bestowed Barack Obama with the PEN America Voice of Influence Award.Transitions Magda Grigorian was appointed chief communications officer of Phillips. Lara Hughes was named interim director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. Robert Nava is now represented by Pace Gallery. PPOW and Kohn Gallery announced joint representation of Chiffon Thomas. Janine Yorimoto Boldt was named associate curator of American art at the Chazen Museum of Art in Madison, Wisconsin.In MemoriamCharles L. Amos, artist and railroader | Trains Sandy Dvore (1934–2020), graphic artist | The Hollywood Reporter Garrett Falls Lockhart aka i_o (1990–2020), DJ and music producer | Resident Advisor Peter Joseph (1929–2020), minimalist painter | ARTnews George Nock (1946–2020), artist, sculptor, and football player | Baltimore Sun Greg Polisseni (1970–2020), collage artist and fashion designer | Democrat & Chronicle Frederick Weston (1946–2020), artist and fashion designer | Philadelphia Tribune Hoda Zarbaf, mixed media artist | via Shiva Balaghi |
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