Advocacy & Public Policy Committee News v. 10 n. 9, September 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

• Farfan, Isa. “Can Visual Artists Get People to Vote?” Hyperallergic, September 2, 2024. 

• Lawson-Tancred, Jo. “Protesters Who Threw Soup on Van Gogh Painting Sentenced to Jail,” Artnet News, September 27, 2024.

• Nelson, George. “Climate Protesters Force Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum to Close.” ARTnews, September 8, 2024. 

• Pontone, Maya. “Iconic NYC Art Squat-Turned-Nonprofit Is Getting a New Home.” Hyperallergic, September 9, 2024.

• Sharp, Sonja. “Protest Is Everywhere. But Climate Activists Have the Monopoly on Art — for Now.” Los Angeles Times, September 10, 2024.

• Solomon, Tessa. “An Artist-Made Billboard in Times Square Has a Hidden Message: Save Gaza.” ARTnews, September 6, 2024. 

• Valladares, Carlos. “In A Climate Where All Palestinian Art Is ‘Controversial,’ a Connecticut Museum Carves Space for Palestinian Dreams.” ARTnews, September 13, 2024.

Copyright & Licensing; Open Access

• Brittain, Blake. “Artist Sues after US Rejects Copyright for AI-Generated Image.” Reuters, September 26, 2024.

• Faniel, Ixchel M., Brittany Brannon, Lesley A. Langa, Brooke Doyle, and Titia van der Werf. “Improving Open Access Discovery for Academic Library Users.” OCLC, September 2024. 

• Jahner, Kyle, and Aruni Soni. “AI Art Copyright Stays Doubtful After Appeals Court Argument.” Bloomberg Law, September 14, 2024. 

• Jahner, Kyle. “Internet Archive Digital Lending Not Fair Use, 2nd Cir. Says.” Bloomberg Law, September 4, 2024.

• Jahner, Kyle. “Trump Campaign Videos Spark Music Copyright Lawsuits: Explained.” Bloomberg Law, September 13, 2024.

• Knibbs, Kate. “The Internet Archive’s Fight to Save Itself.” Wired, September 27, 2024.

• Moriarty, Brian, Timothy Meagher, and Daniel Fleisher. “Digital Image Creation Using AI Risks Copyright Infringement.” Bloomberg Law, September 16, 2024.

• Press Release. “Library of Congress Announces New Members of Copyright Public Modernization Committee.” Library of Congress, September 24, 2024.

Funding

• Farfan, Isa. “Art Institute of Chicago Gets “Transformative” $75M Gift.” Hyperallergic, September 12, 2024.

• O’Hara, Ashlyn. “Alaska’s public libraries sound alarm over abrupt loss of state grant funds.” Alaska Public Media, September 6, 2024.

• Pontone, Maya. “Three Months After Closing, UArts Files for Bankruptcy.” Hyperallergic, September 17, 2024.

• Rosa, Amanda. “‘A blow to all of us’: Miami arts groups ready to put on a show despite funding cuts.” Miami Herald, September 23, 2024.

• Velie, Elaine. “What’s the Difference Between Private and Public Museums?” Hyperallergic, September 18, 2024.

Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Access (IDEA)

• Boztas, Senay. “Dutch Museum Aims for Improved Accessibility with Launch of Short-Form Captions.” The Art Newspaper, September 26, 2024.

• Cassady, Daniel. “Stonewall Museum Ends Membership with Florida Tourism Organization After LGBTQ+ Page Disappears.” ARTnews, September 10, 2024. 

• Farfan, Isa. “Latinx Art Book Fair Launches at New York University.” Hyperallergic, September 19, 2024.

• Grillo de Lambarri, Giuliana. “Exhibit highlights decades of hip-hop created in Atlantic Canada.” CBC News, September 23, 2024.

• Halperin, Julia. “Ready for the Art-World Reckoning?” The Art Newspaper, September 6, 2024. 

• Jacobs, Harrison. “Getty’s PST ART Exhibitions Take an Expansive View of Science to Center Indigenous Knowledge.” ARTnews, September 19, 2024.

• Nayyar, Rhea. “A Monument to Trans and Nonbinary Life Graces Trafalgar Square.” Hyperallergic, September 20, 2024. 

• Solomon, Tessa. “UNESCO Warns against the Looting and Trafficking of Artifacts from Sudan.” ARTnews, September 24, 2024. 

Intellectual Freedom/Access to Information

• Albanese, Andrew. “Penguin Random House Creates New Role to Help Battle Book Bans.” Publisher’s Weekly, September 20, 2024.

• American Library Association. “American Library Association Reveals Preliminary Data on 2024 Book Challenges." ALA News, September 28, 2024.

• Drake, Carolina Ana. “'The government wants to silence these voices': Peru’s new film funding law raises censorship fears for artists.” The Art Newspaper, September 16, 2024.

• Jensen, Kelly. “The State of Academic Libraries: Book Censorship News, September 13, 2024.” BOOK RIOT, September 13, 2024.

• Lawson-Tancred, Jo. “Researchers Claim Chinese Interference in French Museum Exhibitions.” Artnet, September 4, 2024.

• Nayyar, Rhea. "Michigan State University Accused of Censoring Pro-Palestine Artwork.” Hyperallergic, September 18, 2024.

Workplace

• Amponsah, Michelle N., and Samuel A. Church. “Harvard Warns of Consequences After Pro-Palestine ‘Study-In’ in Widener Library." The Harvard Crimson, September 23, 2024.

• Di Liscia, Valentina. “Author Jhumpa Lahiri Turns Down Noguchi Award Over Keffiyeh Ban.” Hyperallergic, September 26, 2024.

• Kanter, Jake. “London’s ‘Evening Standard’ Newspaper to Revive Art Critic Brian Sewell with AI Amid Staff Cuts.” ARTnews, September 25, 2024. 

• Nayyar, Rhea. “Low Morale and High Attrition Plague Wexner Center for the Arts.” Hyperallergic, September 26, 2024.

• Nelson, George. “Slovakian Culture Workers Launch Strike Against Government’s ‘Ideologically Motivated Censorship’.” ARTnews, September 8, 2024.

Miscellaneous

• Nayyar, Rhea. “Hurricane Helene Obliterates Asheville’s River Arts District.” Hyperallergic, October 1, 2024.

• Pontone, Maya. “Lebanese Arts Organizations Scramble as Israel Ramps Up Airstrikes.” Hyperallergic, September 26, 2024.

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