Man who spent his life hunting down stolen Nazi art dies from COVID-19
(United States of America) The Jerusalem Post, 17th May 2020.
Read More(United States of America) The Jerusalem Post, 17th May 2020.
Read MoreIt’s a pandemic. Could we back off a little? (And virtual tours of museums are simply not that enjoyable.)
Read MoreICA Watershed in East Boston is closed, of course – but then the staff of the ICA learned that East Boston had one of the area’s highest rates of Covid-19 infection and that the people of the area were in some serious need.
Grants will be allocated to artists in 16 US cities through the foundation’s regional regranting partners and can be used to cover expenses like food and rent
Read MoreIn Poland and other countries ruled by nationalist governments, far-right political parties are increasingly attempting to twist history to fit into their own narratives. And they’re going after cultural and educational institutions to do it.
Read More“Ebola was not a pandemic, but it created a panic rarely seen in the U.S. It was on the heels of the Ebola mania that the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History developed Outbreak: Epidemics in a Connected World, a major exhibition proposed by Daniel Lucey, an infectious disease physician.
“After [James A.] Cincotta was hired as the museum’s retail director in 2015, staffers who worked for him began reporting what they said was routinely abusive behavior. Cincotta slapped, punched, pinched, shoved, grabbed, and verbally berated workers, according to interviews with 14 current and former museum employees.”
For the 272 federally recognized tribes in Alaska, Washington, Oregon and Idaho, the facility contains important treaty and historical documents.
Research groups have designed new technologies and initiatives for the V&A, Kunsthistorisches Museum and Thyssen-Bornemisza
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