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Expecting $22 million in coronavirus-related losses, the Smithsonian Institution will cut the way of some of its top executives. [The Washington Post]
There’s been an uptick in the online trade of looted antiquities from the Middle East and North Africa during the coronavirus, which includes photos of the looting to prove the object’s authenticity. [The Art Newspaper]
The L.A. City Council is considering turning private development fees, usually used for cultural events, into a relief fund for arts organization. [Los Angeles Times]
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Art galleries and small museums in France could begin to reopen as early as May 11. [The Art Newspaper]
Museums
Art critic Sebastian Smee’s lastest column carries the headline: “This is how bad things are for museums: They now have a green light to sell off their art.” [The Washington Post]
The coronavirus pandemic has severely impacted various museums around the world and some won’t reopen. Nina Siegal looks at the process of shutting a museum down. [The New York Times]
Artists
Jillian Steinhauer profiles artist Jordan Casteel, whose work presents a vision of “closeness—something that’s been severely disrupted by the coronavirus crisis.” [The New York Times]
Gillian Wise, an abstract artist who was a key member of the British constructivists group, has died of coronavirus-related causes at 84. [The Guardian]
Read an interview with Fabián Cháirez, whose painting La Revolución, depicting a nude Emiliano Zapata in heels, sparked mass protests in Mexico in December. [Open Space]
Wade Guyton has reportedly purchased Jasper Johns’s former studio in New York’s Greenwich Village. [New York Post]
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