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News

“As Galleries Reopen, Two Critics Find Rewards Eclipse the Angst.” Holland Cotter and Jillian Steinhauer hit the streets of New York and found much to like. [The New York Times]

A story looks to the past and present of UC Irvine’s expansive Institute and Museum of California Art. [LA Weekly]

A consideration of Tania Bruguera shows “how the artist has challenged oppressive forces with incisive performances.” [ARTnews]

History

Guardian art critic Jonathan Jones took up an unusual question during lockdown: Where are the bones of Hans Holbein, a German Renaissance artist who died in London in 1543 of what was thought to be bubonic plague? [The Guardian]

In case you missed it, the great fiction writer Rivka Galchen told ARTnews about her admiration of Holbein’s 1533 masterpiece The Ambassadors[ARTnews]

Paul Fusco, a member of the Magnum Photos collective who focused in part on marginalized communities across the United States, died on Wednesday. [ARTnews]

After similar monuments were toppled in San Francisco last month, a statue of controversial California missionary Junípero Serra will be moved from its place in front of Ventura City Hall after a city council vote. [Los Angeles Times]

Misc.

Museums are getting into the face mask biz—with some eye-pleasing results. [The New York Times]

With $300,000 in public funds and a Knight Foundation grant, the Philadelphia Housing Development Corporation launched a new initiative called ART IS ESSENTIAL to support community-based art and artists help tell their stories. [ABC]

Black performers describe the steps they recommend to begin transforming the white-dominated classical music world. [The New York Times]

A cartoonist thinks through worrying about how taking medication might affect his art. [The New Yorker]

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