Museums in Belgium and Italy to re-open mid-May under phased lifting of lockdown
Belgian museum director says his institution is “ready to serve as a test room”
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Detroit’s Library Street Collective launches virtual exhibitions inside historic city buildings
The first group show will place digital renderings of work by artists Daniel Arsham, José Parlá, and Kennedy Yanko in the abandoned Beaux-Arts-style State Saving Bank
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Irish Museum of Modern Art to be used as mortuary to cope with coronavirus pandemic
Museum will house a temporary structure in its grounds as the “country prepares Public Health facilities to deal with Covid-19”
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Librarians: If We Can’t Lend Books During Lockdown, Let’s Make Our Buildings And Bookmobiles Wi-Fi Hotspots
“The [American Library Association] urged the FCC to waive E-rate restrictions so libraries could not only offer [free] Wi-Fi access via local libraries, but could also provide broadband service to disconnected communities via bookmobiles
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Tate Museums Pledge To Cut Resource Use, Cut Carbon
Tate—a network of four museums including Tate Modern, which ranked as Britain’s top tourist attraction, with 5.9 million visitors in 2018—announced it would cut its carbon footprint by at least 10 percent by 2023. “Large public buildings, attracting millions of visitors from the U.K. and overseas, require energy,” reads a declaration issued in July, which […]
National Museum Of American Jewish History Files For Bankruptcy
In filing for Chapter 11, the museum is “seeking relief from what museum officials characterize as a crushing debt burden [of more than $30 million] incurred by construction of its home on Independence Mall a decade ago.
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Activism, spirituality and a “prayer wheel made of cum rags” in Sex Workers exhibition in New York
The pop-up show aims to broaden notions around sex workers and the legality of sex work
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Surrounded by Trump territory, Somali artists put immigrant art on the map in swing state of Minnesota
Rochester Art Center engages with minority artists at a time of rising anti-immigrant rhetoric
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Salt Lake City’s Leonardo Museum Turns Sprinklers On A Homeless Encampment
When the mayor saw the sprinklers turned on in a place where people had been camping all winter, the city got involved. “After people from the mayor’s office tried to contact officials at The Leonardo, a city crew was sent over to shut off the water.