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Museum of Modern Art board chair Leon Black and his wife Debra, who rank on ARTnews’s Top 200 Collectors list, have given $10 million to a New York City fund for hospital workers. [Crain’s New York]
With Singapore shutting down as officials attempt to curb the spread of the coronavirus, art museums across the city-state, including the National Gallery of Singapore and the Singapore National Museum, have closed. [Artforum]
Pace Gallery president and CEO Marc Glimcher had the coronavirus. In a new op-ed, he considers the ways that fighting the virus off over the course of a month got him thinking of the art world’s recovery. [ARTnews]
News
A fire broke out after two tar cookers exploded at Berlin’s soon-to-open Humboldt Forum museum, which is set to be home to several ethnographic collections that hold objects such as the controversial Benin Bronzes. [The New York Times]
MAXXI director Hou Hanru, artist Paola Pivi, and MoMA curator Paola Antonelli are among those who have signed a petition urging the Italian government to launch a national art fund. [The Art Newspaper]
A Laszlo Moholy-Nagy photogram sold at an online Sotheby’s photography auction for $524,000, making it one of the most expensive works sold digitally by the auction house this year. [Art Market Monitor]
Remembrances
Late artist and art historian David C. Driskell’s 1976 survey of black American art for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art relied on “a major platform during a historic moment simply to insist: Black art matters,” critic Christopher Knight writes. [Los Angeles Times]
Stress Relief
A mini art gallery built to amuse gerbils, filled with mini Klimts and Vermeers peopled with rodents, has gone viral. [Fox News]
As part of a project begun in 2015 called An Ongoing Collection of Screen Grabs with Reassuring Subtitles, artist Allan McCollum has been collecting screenshots of films and TV shows where characters tell each other things will be OK. It feels particularly timely right now. [Museum of Modern Art Magazine]
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