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One third of French galleries could close permanently by the end of 2020, as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. [The Art Newspaper]
Hauser & Wirth will launch its own art-and-technology initiative called ArtLab, complete with a digital residency for artists. [ARTnews]
Despite the artist’s hopes that it might be preserved, Kara Walker’s Turbine Hall commission at Tate Modern will be destroyed. [The Art Newspaper]
Read an op-ed about Walker’s commission, which writer Rianna Jade Parker called “a gift we shouldn’t accept.” [ARTnews]
Coronavirus’s Impact on the Art World
After shuttering temporarily amid coronavirus, galleries in Austria will reopen next week, with increased safety measures. [The Art Newspaper]
Marina Abramovic’s opera “The 7 Deaths of Maria Callas,” the culmination of a 60-year obsession over the singer, was to debut on April 11. Now, its future is uncertain. [The New York Times]
Art critic Philip Kennicott pens an op-ed about experiencing art during coronavirus, titled “Art is a collective experience. It’s also a deeply private one.” [The Washington Post]
Misc.
Carolina A. Miranda on the “best, most hilarious song of the coronavirus quarantine,” by Colombian satirists known as Las Cardachians. [Los Angeles Times]
The daughter of Rube Goldberg, the cartoonist namesake of complex contraptions to achieve simple tasks, has called for people to build their own devices to drop a bar of soap into someone’s hands in 10–20 steps. [The New York Times]
The Audain Art Museum in Canada “is taking visitors on after hours flashlight tours” during its temporary closure. [Tatler]
Museum Directors
In an ongoing feature called “Who’s the Next You?” Robb Report poses the question to MCA Chicago director Madeleine Grynsztejn. [Robb Report]
Earlier this month, Grynsztejn spoke with ARTnews about her master’s thesis on 19th-century American landscape painting. [ARTnews]
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