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National Endowment for the Arts Scraps Challenge America Grant Program, Future of NYSE’s ‘Fearless Girl’ Statue Uncertain, Tatsumi Orimoto Dies: Morning Links for March 06, 2025

The ‘Fearless Girl’ sculpture opposite the New York Stock Exchange by Kristen Visbal is in question. Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines NEA NIXES GRANT. In the latest anti-DEI news, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has cancelled its Challenge America arts grant program for 2026, reports Hyperallergic. …

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Texas Lawmakers Take Aim at Pro-Palestine Student Art Exhibition

University of North Texas campus. via Google images. A Texas lawmaker urged university administrators to cancel a planned lecture, remove a student art exhibition, and review campus free speech policies, citing alleged antisemitism, according to NTdaily, the school’s news outlet. In a letter addressed to University President Harrison Keller and UNT System Chancellor Michael Williams, …

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Artist Young Joon Kwak Invites Audiences to the ‘Resisterhood’ with Glimmering Bejeweled Sculptures and Neon Works

Young Joon Kwak, “Uh, As If! (still),” 2014. HD video (color, sound). © Young Joon Kwak and Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles. Editor’s Note: This story is part of Newsmakers, an ARTnews series where we interview the movers and shakers who are making change in the art world. Welcome to the resisterhood. That’s the premise of Young Joon …

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Crozier Lends a Hand to LA Galleries Hit by Wildfires at Independent Art Fair

Courtesy of Crozier In a show of support for Los Angeles galleries impacted by recent wildfires, Crozier Fine Arts has pledged to cover shipping costs for six exhibitors traveling to the Independent Art Fair in New York this May. The initiative, announced in partnership with Independent, will allow Night Gallery, Chris Sharp Gallery, Sea View, …

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In a Timely D.C. Exhibition, Artists of Color Use Sculpture to Question Who’s Worth Remembering

Pepón Osorio, Las Twines, 1998. Smithsonian American Art Museum Can a sculpture convey power? Historically, sculpture has been one of the key ways to depict who is in charge and who is worth remembering. That has been the case in the United States where the Lincoln Memorial and Mount Rushmore recall the country’s most revered …

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John Wilson, a Black Figurative Artist Nearly Lost to Time, Gets a Traveling Retrospective

John Wilson, Black Despair, 1945. ©Estate of John Wilson/Museum of Fine Arts, Boston To be Black in America, artist John Woodrow Wilson (1922–2015) once said, was to endure “a kind of slow death.” How best to fight that protracted, demoralizing violence? For Wilson, one solution was to produce art. In his paintings, sculptures, and prints, …

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What Was the Harlem Renaissance?

Photo collage by Daniela Hritcu. The Harlem Renaissance, also known as the New Negro Movement, was a movement of the 1920s and ’30s that sought to redefine Black identity through literature, music, painting, photography, and intellectual thought. It was a direct response to negative stereotypical images that proliferated throughout popular culture in the United States …

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Larry Gagosian Talked the Future with CBS: ‘I’m Not Ready to Pass the Reins’

Larry Gagosian was recently featured on the CBS Sunday Morning. Van Tine Dennis/Sipa USA CBS Sunday Morning recently aired a profile of gallery owner Larry Gagosian and how the 80-year-old art dealer navigates the “brutal business” while overseeing 18 locations around the world. The seven-minute segment aired on CBS Sunday Morning on February 23. Early …

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The Best Booths at Frieze LA, from Projects Dedicated to Fire Recovery to Quietly Introspective Sculptures

A view of the entrance of Frieze Los Angeles 2025. Maximilíano Durón/ARTnews The sun was out and shining all day Thursday in Los Angeles. It seems a fortuitous sign for the 2025 edition of Frieze Los Angeles, which opened to VIPs in the morning. From 10am onward, the custom-built tent at the Santa Monica Airport …

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