| The research team Forensic Architecture and independent journalism collective Bellingcat organized a sprawling archive documenting police brutality at Black Lives Matter demonstrations across the US this year. They have now published it online in the form of an interactive cartographic platform.Artist Ahmet Öğüt accused the Yarat Contemporary Art Center of using his work as a “propaganda tool” and demanded that the institution remove his work after it featured the exhibition banner for his show in a post using the hashtag #KarabakhIsAzerbaijan.The National Endowment for the Humanities allocated $120,000 to restore and build monuments in the US. One grant will fund the restoration of a Christopher Columbus statue rolled into the harbor by protesters in Baltimore; another will fund the creation of a Frederick Douglass monument in New York.Souls Grown Deep launched an unprecedented resale royalty program for artists, which offers living artists 5% — the highest royalty threshold worldwide — of the proceeds from secondary market sales, at up to $85,000 annually per artist.Awards & Accolades Zdenka Badovinac was awarded the Igor Zabel Award for Culture and Theory.Transitions Nayland Blake was appointed chair of the Bard Studio Arts Program, beginning with the academic year 2021-2022. Christopher Y. Lew, Kristina Newman-Scott, Eileen Jeng Lynch, Hitomi Iwasaki, Matthew López, David Rios, Solana Chehtman, and Victoria Munro have joined the Virtual NYC Curator Collections initiative, organized by the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment, the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, and NYC & Company. Brittany Webb was appointed curator of 20th-century Art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. In MemoriamMarylin Bender (1925–2020), journalist and author who was the first woman business editor of the New York Times | NYT Joan Bingham (1935–2020), co-founder of the independent publishing house Grove Atlantic | Publishers Weekly Sean Connery (1930–2020), the first actor to portray James Bond | NPR Nikki McKibbin (1978–2020), singer-songwriter and American Idol finalist | CNN Elsa Raven (1929–2020), actress known for her role in Back to the Future | Entertainment Weekly |
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