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Harry Belafonte, singer, actor and civil rights champion inspired by artists' involvement in social causes, has died, aged 96
Belafonte cited Pablo Picasso and his artist friend Charles White among the visual and performing artists whose support of social justice movements inspired his activism
Harlem’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture receives $8m in state funding for major renovation
The centre, whose art collection is one of the richest in historic and Modern Black art, will put the state funds toward major improvements to its building
Three to seereview
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Sophie Taeuber-Arp at MoMA to Taryn Simon’s exploration of the NYPL’s picture archive
Acquisitionsgallery
Top five museum acquisitions of the month
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter international museum collections—from a rising star of Weimar-era Berlin to a Bohemian Virgin and Child
New York Public Library shores up its marble lions
Two-month conservation effort for the sculptures follows a public appeal to donors