Advocacy & Public Policy Committee News v. 10 n. 7, July 2024

Advocacy & Public Policy Committee News support the committee's mission to monitor governmental activities and social justice issues affecting the professional interests of ARLIS/NA and to keep the ARLIS/NA membership informed. The monthly alerts are intended to be conversation starters, help members keep up on public policy issues and alert members to new developments. The articles compiled in the News Alerts bring to the forefront recent news from a range of perspectives designed to elicit discussion; they are not compiled to represent the views of ARLIS as an organization or the members of the Advocacy and Public Policy Committee.

Previous issues can be found here: https://www.arlisna.org/news/appc-news-alert 

Art & Activism 

• Cassady, Daniel. “Banksy Fires Back at UK Home Secretary After Being Criticized for ‘Vile’ Glastonbury Artwork.” ARTnews, July 3, 2024.

• Cassady, Daniel. “Climate Activists Slam Toyota’s Role in 2024 Paris Olympics with Guerrilla Art Campaign.” ARTnews, July 26, 2024. 

• Duron, Maximiliano. “Jane Fonda, Gagosian Present Second Benefit Against Toxic Oil Drilling.” ARTnews, July 25, 2024. 

• Ho, Karen K. “American Museum of Natural History Repatriates Remains of 124 Native People.” ARTnews, July 31, 2024. 

• Ho, Karen K. “Heat Waves and Mega Storms Are Creating New Challenges for Art Storage and Logistics.” ARTnews, July 31, 2024. 

• Ho, Karen K. “Just Stop Oil Activists Who Threw Tomato Soup at Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ Get Prison Time.” ARTnews, July 26, 2024.

• Ho, Karen K. “Parthenon Museum Returns Collection of 500-Year-Old Mexican Artifacts.” ARTnews, July 24, 2024. 

• Lawson-Tancred, Jo. “Disney Hack Carried Out by ‘Hactivists’ for Artists’ Rights.” Artnet News, July 17, 2024.

• Moynihan, Colin. “With New York’s Help, a Center of Art and Protest to Get a New Home.” The New York Times, July 16, 2024.

• Solomon, Tessa. “LA’s Fowler Museum Returns 20 Artifacts to Warumungu People of Australia.” ARTnews, July 30, 2024. 

• Villa, Angelica. “London’s Science Museum Ends Contract with Oil Sponsor After Protests.” ARTnews, July 15, 2024.

Copyright & Licensing; Open Access 

• Schrader, Adam. “French Court Rules Against Artist in Legal Battle Over Tintin Parodies.” Artnet News, July 22, 2024.

Funding 

• Advocacy Alert. "Urgent – Oppose Drastic House Funding Cuts to IMLS." American Alliance of Museums, July 19, 2024.

• Aguilar David. "Detroit voters asked to renew tax boosting library funding, but major issues remain." The Detroit News, August 3, 2024.

• Aton, Francesca. “Trellis Art Fund Names 12 Winners of $100,000 Artist Awards, Including Two Working Parents.” ARTnews, July 22, 2024. 

• Cassady, Daniel. “National Trust Announces $3M. in Grants to Preserve Black History Sites Across 30 U.S. Cities.” ARTnews, July 18, 2024.

• Nayyar, Rhea. "House Majority Vote Saves Millions in Funding for NEA and NEH." Hyperallergic, July 24, 2024.

• Pontone, Maya. "Most NY Artists Are Financially Unstable, Survey Finds." Hyperallergic, July 8, 2024.

• Press Release. "IMLS Announces $22.5M Investment in U.S. Library and Archival Services Initiatives." Institute of Museum and Library Services, July 25, 2024.

• Schneider, Mike. "Theater festivals offer to give up their grants if DeSantis restores funding for Florida arts groups." AP News, July 11, 2024.

Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Access (IDEA)

• Abrams, Jonathan. “A New Museum Specializes in Black Genealogy. Here’s What I Found Out About Myself.” The New York Times, July 18, 2024. 

• Cimitile, Matthew. “Innovative Digital Archive Project Receives Florida Historic Preservation Award.” University of South Florida, July 18, 2024. 

• Gillespie, Ericka. “U.S. Army Women’s Museum Creates Historic Online Archive for Public Use.” U.S. Army, July 3, 2024. 

• Liscia, Valentina Di, and Rhea Nayyar. “Artist’s Monument to Women Beheaded at University of Houston.” Hyperallergic, July 9, 2024.

• Nayyar, Rhea. “Shahzia Sikander Says No to Repairing Her Beheaded Sculpture.” Hyperallergic, July 11, 2024.

• Schrader, Adam. “Fotografiska New York to Settle Lawsuit Alleging Pregnancy Discrimination.” Artnet News, July 16, 2024.

Intellectual Freedom/Access to Information 

• French, Ron. “Alpena County Moves to Fire Library Officials over Sexually-Themed Youth Books." Bridge Michigan, July 30, 2024.

• Harris, Elizabeth A. “More States Are Passing Book Banning Rules. Here’s What They Say.” The New York Times, July 29, 2024.

• Hixenbaugh, Mike, Tyler Kingkade, Scott Friedman, and Eva Parks. “Inside the Two-Year Fight to Bring Charges against School Librarians in Granbury, Texas.” NBCnews, July 25, 2024.

• Kelly, Phillipa. “Royal Academy Removes Works from Young Artists’ Exhibition Following Accusations of Antisemitism.” The Art Newspaper, July 17, 2024.

• Lapin, Andrew. “Texas School District Agrees to Remove ‘Anne Frank’s Diary,’ ‘Maus,’ ‘The Fixer’ and 670 Other Books after Right-Wing Group’s Complaint.” Jewish Telegraphic Agency, June 26, 2024.

• NCAC Comms. “National Coalition Against Censorship Launches Map Tracking Art Censorship Since October 7th.” National Coalition Against Censorship, July 18, 2024.

• Pontone, Maya. “Journalist Watchdogs Decry Egypt’s Arrest of Satirical Cartoonist.” Hyperallergic, July 23, 2024.

• Pontone, Maya. “St. Louis Arts Center Scraps Pro-Palestinian Exhibition, Calling It ‘Antisemitic.’” Hyperallergic, July 10, 2024.

• Solomon, Tessa. “British-Israeli Activists at Tate Modern Protest Len Blavatnik: ‘Don’t Mess with Freedom of the Press.’” ARTnews, July 22, 2024.

• Solomon, Tessa. “Wing Luke Museum to Relocate Show Accused of ‘Platforming Zionist Ideology.’” ARTnews, July 2, 2024.

Technology and Digital Privacy 

• Battersby, Matilda. “Academic Authors ‘shocked’ after Taylor & Francis Sells Access to Their Research to Microsoft AI.” The Bookseller, July 19, 2024.

• Grant, Nico, and Cade Metz. “The Push to Develop Generative A.I. Without All the Lawsuits.” The New York Times, July 19, 2024. 

• Hatfield, Kimberly. “Unesco Warns That AI Could Rewrite Holocaust History.” The Art Newspaper, July 24, 2024. 

• Heckel, Jody. "Project helps librarians use data storytelling to advocate for public libraries." University of Illinois News Bureau, July 10, 2024.

Workplace 

• Breeden, Aurelien. “Dancers Drop Threat to Strike During Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony.” The New York Times, July 24, 2024.

• Greenberger, Alex. “UArts Faces Unfair Labor Practices Complaint from Shuttered School’s Union.” ARTnews, July 19, 2024.

• Jhala, Kabir. “Workers Allege Redundancies at London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts Are Related to Palestine Solidarity Actions.” The Art Newspaper, July 5, 2024. 

• Liscia, Valentina Di, and Angella d’Avignon. “Dancers Call for Fair Wages During Joan Jonas Performance at Getty.” Hyperallergic, July 16, 2024.

• Nelson, George. “London’s White Cube Axes Nearly 40 Monitors and Replaces Them with Security Guards.” ARTnews, July 31, 2024.

• Solomon, Tessa. “In Legal Complaint, Artist Daniel Arsham Accused of Firing Employee for Union Support.” ARTnews, July 12, 2024.

• Villa, Angelica. “Barnes Foundation Cuts 12 Positions, Fires Curator in Newly Created Role.” ARTnews, July 24, 2024.

Miscellaneous

• Bennett, Steve. “Rare Comedy Archives to Be Released." Chortle, July 1, 2024. 

• Cieslik, Emma. "The Olympics Drag Scene Got Christian Art History Right." Hyperallergic, July 30, 2024.

• Clark, Kiera. “UVic Is Home to the World’s Largest Trans+ Archive.” Martlet, July 25, 2024. 

• Press Release. "IMLS Debuts New Federal Resource, InformationLiteracy.gov, at American Library Association Conference." Institute of Museum and Library Services, July 27, 2024.

•  Whitehall, Claire Ellicott. “British Library Planned to Buy Archives of Cambridge Spy Kim Philby.” Mail Online, July 22, 2024. 

This issue of News Alerts was compiled by Michele Jennings, Stephanie Kays, Torie Quiñonez, Michelle Riggs Waller, Annie Sollinger, and Petra Warren.