Advocacy & Public Policy Committee News v. 10 n. 8, August 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

• Boucher, Brian. “Art on View During the UN General Assembly Imagines a Better Future.” Artnet News, August 21, 2024.

• Cascone, Sarah. “Feminist Art Parade at Democratic National Convention Disrupted.” Artnet News, August 22, 2024.

• Ho, Karen H. “Harvard Won’t Remove Sackler Name from Art Museum and Campus Building.” ARTnews, August 8, 2024.

• Nelson, George. “Protesters Demand Slovakian Culture Minister’s Resignation: ‘She’s Spreading Neo-Fascist Opinions.’” ARTnews, August 14, 2024. 

• Sutton, Benjamin. “Activist and Journalist Charged with Hate Crimes over Vandalism at Brooklyn Museum Leaders’ Homes.” The Art Newspaper, August 8, 2024.

Copyright & Licensing; Open Access

• Enis, Matt. "DPLA, IPG Announce New Ebook Ownership Model for Libraries." Library Journal, August 13, 2024.

• Farfan, Isa. “Judge Says Artists Can Sue AI Companies for Using Their Work.” Hyperallergic, August 14, 2024.

• Hammond, George. “AI Hit by Copyright Claims as Companies Approach ‘Data Frontier.'” Financial Times, August 31, 2024.

• Kinsella, Eileen. “Fraudster Martin Shkreli Must Surrender His Copies of the Wu-Tang Clan’s Unique Art Album.”  Artnet News, August 23, 2024.

• Lopatto, Elizabeth. “OpenAI Searches for an Answer to Its Copyright Problems.” The Verge, August 30, 2024. 

Funding

• Akers, Torey. “New York’s Department of Cultural Affairs Awards Institutions More than $200m for Capital Projects.” The Art Newspaper, August 23, 2024.

• “Burns Halperin Report Receives $100,000 Ford Foundation Grant.” Artforum, August 14, 2024.

• "City of Seattle Awarded FEMA Grant to Install Air-Conditioning at Five Library Branches." Office of the Mayor, Bruce Harrell, August 20, 2024.

• Farfan, Isa. "Minnesota Nonprofit Takes the Lead in Guaranteed Income for Artists." Hyperallergic, August 26, 2024.

• Mondros, Sam. "In dramatic reversal, tech-funded art museum moves downtown for free rent." San Francisco Standard, August 30, 2024.

• "National Park Service and Partner Agencies Award $25.7 Million to Preserve Significant Historic Sites and Collections." National Parks Service, August 20, 2024.

• Nayeri, Farah. "A French Museum Has Global Needs (but It Can’t Have New Jersey)." New York Times, August 24, 2024.

• Nayyar, Rhea. "National Park Service Allots $3M to Repatriate Native Heritage." Hyperallergic, September 2. 2024.

Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Access (IDEA)

• Aton, Francesca. “Johnny Cash Statue to Replace Racist Politician in US Capitol.” ARTnews, August 2, 2024.

• Brown, Sháńdíín, and Zach Feuer. “Can Santa Fe’s Indian Market Free Itself From the Settler Gaze?” Hyperallergic, August 26, 2024. 

• Douglas, Sarah. “A&L Berg Foundation Launches New Program to Support Early-Career Latinx Art World Professionals.” ARTnews, August 27, 2024.

• Farfan, Isa. “‘A Very Old Dream’: NYC to Get Its First Dominican Culture Center.” Hyperallergic, August 13, 2024.

• Finkel, Jori. “Black Art Week in San Francisco Bay Area Is in the Works for the Fall.” The New York Times, August 14, 2024.

• Greenberger, Alex. “Golf Course on Native American Earthworks to Move, Ending a Long-Running Legal Battle.” ARTnews, August 2, 2024.

• Lawson-Tancred, Jo. “Artist Khaleb Brooks To Design London’s First Slavery Memorial.” Artnet News, August 27, 2024.

• Pontone, Maya. “Celebrating the Legacy of "Old Lesbian” Advocate Arden Eversmeyer.” Hyperallergic, August 11, 2024.

• Ragbir, Lise. “DEI Initiatives Are Dying Down. Now What?” Hyperallergic, August 5, 2024.

• Solomon, Tessa. “Man Arrested in Connection With Suspected Arson at Baltimore Jewish Museum.” ARTnews, August 12, 2024.

• Whiddington, Richard. “Multi-Year Cultural Initiative Elevating Latinx Stories to Launch in New York.” Artnet News, August 27, 2024.

Intellectual Freedom/Access to Information

• Fleischman, Jeffrey. “Hell hath no fury like a librarian scorned in the book banning wars.” Los Angeles Times, August 22, 2024.

• King, Grace. “Iowa City librarian Sam Helmick named next president of American Library Association.” The Gazette, August 1, 2024.

• Lathan, Nadia. “Oklahoma Revokes License of Teacher Who Gave Class QR Code to Brooklyn Library in Book-Ban Protest.” AP News, August 23, 2024.

• “Pushback saves B.C. Japanese Canadian news archive from digital oblivion.” Mission City Record, August 22, 2024.

Technology and Digital Privacy

• Amant, Alisyn. “AI Project Aims to Transform Art Preservation with Color Reconstruction.” ARTnews, August 23, 2024.

• Berger, Joseph. “Long After Surviving the Nazis, They Use A.I. to Remind the World.” The New York Times, August 2, 2024.

• Drimmer, Sonja. “AI-Generated Images Are Spreading Paranoia and Misinformation. Can Art Historians Help?” ARTnews.Com, August 21, 2024.

• Farfan, Isa. “School Is Back in Session, and So Are AI Art Classes.” Hyperallergic, August 21, 2024.

• Morris, Chris. “OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta: Tracking the Lawsuits Filed against the Major AI Companies.” Fast Company, August 28, 2024.

Workplace

• Farfan, Isa. “Storm King Art Center Workers Celebrate First Union Contracts.” Hyperallergic, August 6, 2024.

• "New NEH-NEA Partnership Will Expand Data Available on Humanities and Arts and Cultural Organizations." National Endowment for the Arts, August 5, 2024.

• Solomon, Tessa. “Noguchi Museum Workers Walk Out in Protest of New Keffiyeh Ban.” ARTnews, August 21, 2024. 

Miscellaneous

• Nelson, George. “British Museum Finds Itself Guilty of Breaking UK Law for Mistreating Collection After 2,000 Items Disappeared.” ARTnews, August 12, 2024. 

• Nelson, George. “Visitor Numbers at the Louvre Fell Off Sharply During Paris Olympics.” ARTnews, August 20, 2024. 

• Nelson, George. “A Painting Confiscated by the Nazis Returned to Jewish Owner’s Heirs.” ARTnews, August 23, 2024. 

• Small, Zachary. “Bennington to Revive Dance Program of Philadelphia Arts School.” The New York Times, August 1, 2024.

• Stoilas, Helen. “Rising Construction Costs Are Leading to Smaller, More Adaptive Museum Spaces.” The Art Newspaper, August 2, 2024. 

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