Man who spent his life hunting down stolen Nazi art dies from COVID-19
(United States of America) The Jerusalem Post, 17th May 2020.
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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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Boston’s Institute Of Contemporary Art Is Using One An Outpost To Feed Local Families
ICA 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.
Warhol Foundation offers $1.6m in emergency relief grants to artists affected by the coronavirus crisis
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
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Nationalist Governments Are Targeting Museums To Change Their Narratives
In 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.
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How The Smithsonian’s Natural History Museum Is Helping The Public Understand Pandemics
“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.
Philadelphia Museum Of Art Retail Exec Abused And Hit Staffers For Two Years Before He Was Fired
“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.”
Trump Administration Abruptly Closes National Archives In Seattle, Infuriating Researchers, Tribal Leaders
For the 272 federally recognized tribes in Alaska, Washington, Oregon and Idaho, the facility contains important treaty and historical documents.
How to make museums more accessible for disabled people? Ask them
Research groups have designed new technologies and initiatives for the V&A, Kunsthistorisches Museum and Thyssen-Bornemisza
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