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Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here’s what you need to know on this Wednesday, February 17.
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Some Skulls at Penn Museum May Belong to Enslaved People – A new investigation into skulls held by the Penn Museum at the University of Pennsylvania found that dozens were taken from burial grounds used by the Philadelphia Almshouse, which later became a hospital. The report does not rule out that some of these remains are from people who were formerly enslaved, although it says it is “highly unlikely.” Meanwhile, the museum says it is continuing to take steps to repatriate and rebury dozens of other skulls in the collection that were found to be remains of enslaved people from Cuba. (
February 2 Following years of fundraising, political turmoil and no small amount of pandemic setbacks, construction is set to begin on the Vladem Contemporary satellite wing of the New Mexico Museum of Art this week. The 15,000-square-foot addition to the site of the already 20,000-square-foot former Halpin Building at the corner of Montezuma Avenue and Guadalupe Street in downtown Santa Fe was designed by local firm DNCA of Santa Fe and Albuquerque s Studio GP. Bradbury Stamm Construction Inc., also of Albuquerque, is set to do the heavy lifting. Most of the work at the very beginning is going to be done on the inside, says Daniel Zillman, director of marketing and communications for the state Department of Cultural Affairs. Ramps for access, tearing up the basement, doing the demo work inside they can do it s not going to look like a whole lot s going on.