We Don’t Need To Re-Create Our Museum Visits, Ballet Performances, Or Anything Else Online
It’s a pandemic. Could we back off a little? (And virtual tours of museums are simply not that enjoyable.)
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Social Issues
When Libraries Open Up, They May Quaratine Books Between Checkouts
Logical, right? (Maybe? Who actually knows?)
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Museums And Art Handlers Are Giving Their Masks And Gloves To Hospitals
“Art spaces … are doing their part to meet the needs of medical professionals, packing up crates of gloves typically used to protect artworks from oil and dust on the hands of those touching artworks and sending off coveted N95 respirators that …
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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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Exhibition Cancelled Because Of … Not Coronavirus, But Slavery
“Four North American museums” — the National Gallery of Canada, Seattle Art Museum, Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, and National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC — “have canceled plans to host a major touring exhibition of masterworks from Liechtenstein’s princely collections out of apparent concern over the royal family’s wartime … use of forced labor
The US Supreme Court’s silence on Nazi art theft fails Holocaust survivors
Last week’s decision to reject an appeal over the ownership of Picasso’s The Actor was a missed opportunity to clarify the limitations of the 2016 HEAR Act
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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 […]
Museum top brass are losing the oil money plot
Decision by London’s British Museum and Science Museum to continue accepting sponsorship from fossil fuel companies risks alienating the public they serve
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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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How Chinese museums are coping with coronavirus: an in-depth report
As museums remain on lockdown in China, we reveal the full extent of the crisis for both state and private institutions and their innovative short-term solutions
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