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  • A New National Portrait Project Will Send 50 UK Artworks to the Cities and Towns That Gave Them Life

    Sarah Cascone

    July 25, 2018 |

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    Response Location: England, London

    In order to share jewels of its collection as well as place artwork in locations tied to its content, the National Portrait Gallery has initiated a new project to loan work to museums around England. The piece selected to loan is one that the artist or the sitter has a specific relationship to the museum or the place where the work will reside.

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  • In an Effort to Diversify Museum Staffs, a New Program Offers Paid Internships at Museums Across the US

    Sarah Cascone

    July 12, 2018 |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Two new initiatives are working to create greater diversity in all levels of museum staffing. They include an Association of Art Museum Directors paid internship program for minority college students and a grant program run by private foundations to recruit people from underrepresented populations into mid-level and senior museum management positions.

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  • See Florida's New Underwater Sculpture Park, Which Is Delighting Scuba Divers and Oysters Alike

    Sarah Cascone

    July 11, 2018 |

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    Response Location: United States, Florida

    In support of artistic creation, marine life, and tourism an underwater sculpture park has opened in Florida. The sculptures have been placed underwater in the Gulf of Mexico in the hopes of creating an artificial reef environment for study.

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  • A Massachusetts Museum Is Taking a New Approach to Wall Text: Revealing Early American Portrait Sitters With Ties to Slavery

    Sarah Cascone

    June 19, 2018 |

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    Response Location: United States, Worcester, Massachusetts

    In order to call attention to the role of northerners in the history of American chattel slavery and the source of portrait sitters’ wealth, the Worcester Art Museum has begun to add information about a sitters’ slave holdings and participation in the slave trade to wall labels.

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