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Coronavirus Fallout
Here’s a guide to layoffs, furloughs, and pay cuts at major U.S. museums. The Hammer Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles are among the institutions that have already announced layoffs. [ARTnews]
“Arts funders, working together, can be strategic in defining and deploying the kinds of capital that will provide equitable relief and opportunity to the sector as a whole,” researcher Alan Brown argues in a piece about how the art industry might be saved in the wake of the pandemic. [Arts Professional]
Hans-Ulrich Obrist, artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries in London, is advocating for a major national program to support British art institutions during the outbreak. [The Guardian]
Lives
Artist Suellen Rocca, a prominent figure in the Chicago scene who created freewheeling figurative paintings, drawings, and sculptures, has died. [ARTnews]
Online Initiatives
David Zwirner has offered 12 New York galleries—including 47 Canal, Bridget Donahue, and Essex Street—an opportunity to exhibit work in its online viewing room as part of an initiative called “Platform: New York.” The Times reports that the gallery plans to expand the program for London-based enterprises. [The New York Times]
Journalist Enid Tsui weighs the costs and benefits of viewing art on a screen in the time of the coronavirus, writing that two recent gallery shows in Hong Kong “were good examples of how certain artworks can’t be properly experienced online.” [South China Morning Post]
The Market
Sotheby’s online sale of 25 prints by Banksy totaled $1.38 million, exceeding its high estimate. The top lot was a version of the street artist’s Girl With Balloon, which sold for $464,000. [Bloomberg]
Restitution & Repatriation
After a lengthy dispute, the Kunstmuseum in Basel will pay an undisclosed amount to the heirs of Curt Glaser, a museum director and critic who sold his art collection when he fled persecution by the Nazis in Germany. The institution has 200 prints and drawings from Glaser’s collection in its holdings. [The New York Times]
Steve Green, president of the company Hobby Lobby and chairman of the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., said that he will return 11,500 objects and fragments to the Iraqi and Egyptian governments. [The Wall Street Journal]
Museums & Galleries
Despite the pandemic, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is moving ahead with its $750 million building project, with the demolition phase scheduled to begin in April. Meanwhile, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures and the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art have halted construction. [Los Angeles Times]
Goodman Gallery, which maintains spaces in Johannesburg, Cape Town, and London, will sell limited-edition blankets designed by Nolan Oswald Dennis, Samson Kambalu, and other artists and direct proceeds to a health clinic in Johannesburg. [The Art Newspaper]
Miscellaneous
In an age of social distancing, the Guardian ponders what we can learn from Edward Hopper’s lonely, disconcerting scenes of American life. [The Guardian]
Finally, critic Christopher Knight writes of how the Black Death altered art history and why we should once again expect changes in the arts “in ways we can only begin to guess.” [Los Angeles Times]
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