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News
Many museums and galleries participated in the Blackout Tuesday initiative, through which social media accounts posted only a black square over the course of a day, as a show of support for the Black Lives Matter movement. But many were split on its meaning. [The Art Newspaper]
After U.S. museums released statements in support of the George Floyd protests, many alleged that institutions weren’t being direct enough in their support for Black Lives Matter. [ARTnews]
Viral digital art has helped bring the killing of George Floyd to the attention of the general public. [Los Angeles Times]
Artist Lynn Hershman Leeson, who served as an associate project director for Running Fence, remembers Christo. [ARTnews]
Critic Calvin Tomkins appraises the legacy of Christo, writing, “What he and Jeanne-Claude, his wife and collaborator, achieved was so different from the work of anyone else.” [The New Yorker]
Criticism
The organization Critical Minded has launched a new relief fund intended to support critics of color. [Artforum]
Art on the Move
A Raphael blockbuster in Italy that was forced to close by the pandemic has officially reopened. [El País]
Uffizi Gallery director Eike Schmidt has called on Italian museums and stores to consider returning their religious art to churches. [The Art Newspaper]
Archaeologists have discovered rock art in Australia that may have been made using beeswax. [Ars Technica]