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The Long Duration of a Split Second, consisting of two projects,
Killing in Umm al-Hiran 18 January 2017, Negev/Naqab, Israel/Palestine Investigation: 2015-ongoing, video, aerial images, text. Turner Prize 2018, Tate Britain.
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 Tuesday, January 12.
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Is Ohio ready to ramp up coronavirus vaccinations? The Wake Up for Monday, Jan. 11, 2021
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Posted Jan 11, 2021
The early rollout of the coronavirus vaccine was marred by delays and a lack of planning, leaving some worried that the state isn t ready to scale up administering doses. Joshua Gunter, cleveland.com
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State information: Outside of outlining the phases for who gets the vaccine, Gov. Mike DeWine and the Ohio Department of Health have not released much framework for the distribution of shots preventing the coronavirus. Local leaders expressed mixed feelings about how the rollout has been handled. But Seth Richardson reports there is a common thread: Information is coming at the last second, leaving little time to switch direction. Is Ohio ready to ramp up shots?
DeWine distancing himself from appointee
Susan Allan Block
Susan Allan Block resigns from Ohio Arts Council after inflammatory social media remarks
CLEVELAND, Ohio – Republican Gov. Mike DeWine announced Friday that Susan Allan Block, one of his appointees to the Ohio Arts Council, had resigned following remarks on social media supporting Republican President Donald Trump’s false narrative of widespread electoral fraud and calling Democratic Vice President-elect Kamala Harris a “whore.”
“Today I accepted the resignation of Susan Allan Block from the Ohio Arts Council,” DeWine said in a statement after public pressure mounted following the posts from Block, a member of the Block family that owns Block Communications.
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TOLEDO An appointee to the Ohio Arts Council resigned Friday after making a vulgar comment on social media about Vice President-elect Kamala Harris that also supported President Donald Trump’s false claims that he won the presidential election.
Republican Gov. Mike DeWine said he accepted Susan Allan Block’s resignation a day after his office issued a statement saying her comments were highly offensive.
Block, of Toledo, posted the all-caps comments Wednesday after a pro-Trump mob overran the U.S. Capitol.
She was first appointed to the state agency in 2016 and was reappointed by DeWine in 2019. The council oversees funding for the arts.