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Why hello there. It's Jennifer Art Curious host in your ears today with our short form

Friday roundup of my favorite art history

updates and interesting news tidbits. This is Art Curious News this week and this will get you up to

date on some of the latest goings on in the realm of art history. Today is Friday, November 18th,

2022. And this week was one of those where I had about a dozen news tabs

open on my laptop with ideas for potential stories to share with you today. It's not usually

easy for me to narrow down the latest and greatest of news, but today was especially difficult.

But regardless, here are my top choices for the week. And they are actually

all pretty good news. Or at least they show possibilities. First off, this week, two separate

studies announced findings that U.S. museums are increasing in diversity. First, the Black

Trusty Alliance for Art Museums, which is an organization that was established

in 2021, to, quote, dismantle barriers that block the entry and advancement of black staff

in leadership in the cultural field, compiled survey responses from 134 art museums around the country,

and noted that more than half of them, 83 in total, have at least one black member as part of their board of trustees.

This is an improvement to a previous study on trusteeship that was performed in 2017 by the American Alliance of Museums, who found that at that time, less than half of U.S. museum boards had people of color

in their leadership and oversight committees. A second report, this time courtesy of the Mellon Foundation,

similarly noted improvement in the diversity of U.S. museum staff, and they received responses

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