The façade of the Sursock Museum in Beirut on August 5, 2020.
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Lecturers Boycott Oxford Over Cecil Rhodes Statue – More than 150 lecturers have reportedly refused to teach students at Oriel College in Oxford, U.K., after Oxford University made the decision not to remove a statue of British imperialist Cecil Rhodes. A governing body for the college said the time and cost were “considerable obstacles” in the removal of the statue, but opponents say its presence promotes institutional racism. (
Rémi Belliveau is shown in this handout image. The contenders represent five regions of Canada, and each gets $25,000 as well as an exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada from Oct. 8, 2021 to Feb. 20, 2022.
They include: Belliveau of Atlantic Canada, Lorna Bauer of Quebec, Rajni Perera of Ontario, Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory of the Prairies and North, and Gabi Dao of the West Coast and Yukon. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-The Sobey Art Foundation
OTTAWA The Sobey Art Foundation has announced five artists shortlisted for its newly expanded $100,000 visual art prize.
The contenders come from five regions of Canada, and each gets $25,000 as well as an exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada from Oct. 8, 2021, to Feb. 20, 2022.
The Vancouver Art Gallery envisions a future program and collection for the 21st century
Hyung-Min Yoon, The Doors, 2016, inkjet print on plastic film, Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Partial gift and partial purchase with proceeds from the Audain Emerging Artists Acquisition Fund.
VANCOUVER
.- On December 12, the Vancouver Art Gallery opens its new exhibition, Where do we go from here?, which proposes to think critically about the role of both art and institutionssuch as galleries and museumsin the process of producing narratives about the past, present and future.
Acting on the Vancouver Art Gallerys statement in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement this summer, Where do we go from here? developed as an opportunity to consider the Gallerys own collecting and exhibition history. Reflecting on the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Gallery in 1931, this exhibition both acknowledges the under representation of African diasporic artists in our col