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Around Europe

The Museum of Modern Art has reportedly gotten involved in an attempt to save two Picasso murals that are sandblasted onto the walls of a building in Oslo due to be demolished. [The Art Newspaper]

The opening of the controversial Humboldt Forum, a museum in Berlin bringing together ethnographic collections, has been delayed yet again, this time because of the coronavirus. [Monopol]

“Faced with potential financial ruin, galleries have had to find new ways to promote themselves, their artists, and one another,” Mara Hoberman writes in a roundup of reopened Parisian galleries. [Artforum]

Museums

The Cleveland Museum of Art has slated its reopening for June 30. When it starts allowing visitors again, only 500 people will be able to enter the museum each day. [Cleveland.com]

With its current director set to retire, Ira Wagner has been named interim director of the Montclair Art Museum in New Jersey. [Baristanet]

Books

What can art do during a time of crisis? Olivia Laing has some answers in a new book. [NPR]

Artists

Tyler Mitchell, a 25-year-old photographer with an exhibition at the International Center of Photography in New York, has signed with the esteemed United Talent Agency. [The Hollywood Reporter]

In a forthcoming documentary, Ai Weiwei will address the Rohingya, who have been forcibly displaced or fled from Myanmar to Bangladesh. [The Art Newspaper]

Jerry Saltz’s Coffees

At long last, critic Jerry Saltz has spoken out about that bizarre viral tweet about his coffee-drinking habits. “Foodies and the art world are aghast when I post myself drinking these,” he writes. [Vulture]

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