Metropolitan Museum 
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SOURCE: New York Times
5/9/2023
Met to Scour Collections to Identify Looted Art
"The museum’s stature and the scope of its effort, disclosed in a letter to the museum staff, is likely to affect how other institutions grapple with the increasing pressure to return ancient items that bear evidence of having been looted."
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SOURCE: New York Times
12/7/2021
Met Acquires Landmark Photo Archive of NY Black Life
“[James Van Der Zee] is a central figure, a significant artist, in telling the story of people of African descent,” said Thelma Golden, director and chief curator of the Studio Museum. “The photographs are testaments to beauty and power, and he captured the Harlem community and the African American community in all its possibilities.”
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SOURCE: New York Times
4/23/2021
Allon Schoener, 95, Dies; Curator Caught in Furor Over ‘Harlem’ Show
Schoener always insisted that critics misunderstood the purpose of the exhibition, which didn't include original paintings by Black artists but did highlight African American photographers. But with distance from the furor, he dismissed claims that he was an early victim of "cancel culture" by recognizing controversy as the price of progress.
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SOURCE: New York Times
3/1/2021
Lightning Strikes Twice: Another Lost Jacob Lawrence Surfaces
A Manhattan nurse learned that a painting in her apartment was the missing Panel 28, "Immigrants admitted from all countries: 1820 to 1840—115,773,” in Jacob Lawrence's "Struggle: From the History of the American People."
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