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Whitney and New Museum lay off staff members as coronavirus economic fallout continues
Employee cuts come three weeks after institutions shut down
NewsAppointments
Laura Raicovich is named interim director of Leslie-Lohman Museum
Politically minded figure left helm of Queens Museum amid tensions with its board
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Getty sets up $10m fund for small and mid-size Los Angeles-area arts organisations reeling from virus
The trust anticipates that grants will range from $25,000 to $200,000
Newscoronavirus
Helen Frankenthaler Foundation plans $5m coronavirus relief effort
Multi-year effort will start with $1.25m in grants to a contemporary art foundation, an Artist Relief Fund and New York arts groups
NewsExhibitions
‘On the Edge’: de Young plans juried show for artists this summer in San Francisco
No firm date is set amid quarantine, but museum is inviting Bay Area artists to take part and sell their work
NewsArt schools
San Francisco Art Institute considers suspending classes after May graduation
Citing coronavirus tumult, the 149-year-old school says it has failed to find a partner to ensure its financial survival
Featurecoronavirus
Here's how to apply for financial aid during the coronavirus pandemic if you're self-employed or a small business in the arts
We have gathered information about grants and loans around the world to help you get through the Covid-19 crisis
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Donors set up $75m fund to help cultural groups and other non-profits in New York City
Fund will disburse grants and loans to small and midsize organisations impacted by coronavirus
Featurecoronavirus
‘It’s almost like science fiction’: artists share their experiences with the coronavirus
We spoke with artists in the US and Europe about how Covid-19 has so far affected them and their work, from cancelled exhibitions to concerns about the future
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Seeking answers from Lacma, Ahmanson Foundation threatens to take its largesse elsewhere
Long-time patron wants ‘a clear understanding’ of how a new building can accommodate the permanent collection highlights it has funded
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Met anticipates a $100m shortfall and remaining closed until July—and smaller museums in the US could be hurt even more by pandemic
“Everyone is really whipsawed,” says the New York institution’s president Daniel Weiss, who expects staff reductions
NewsClosures
Here are the museums that have closed (so far) due to coronavirus
Updates on which cultural institutions are temporarily closing to contain the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic
NewsConservation & Preservation
Crowdfunding campaign launched to revive travel-worn Rockwells
Two works—the artist's famous Thanksgiving dinner scene, and a depiction of an African American girl being escorted by US Marshalls to school—have been on a national tour
Newscoronavirus
Led by Metropolitan Museum of Art, a flurry of US museums say they are shutting down because of coronavirus
Institutions in New York, Boston and Washington underline the need to control the spread of Covid-19
NewsMuseums & Heritage
New arts space finds its muse in the atmospheric Oklahoma sky
Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center is reopening with an inaugural exhibition on illumination
NewsAcquisitions
Cleveland Museum of Art receives art gifts valued at more than $100m
Works donated by a collecting couple include paintings by Bonnard, Vuilliard, Matisse, Braque, Caillebotte and many others
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Four North American museums cancel exhibition of masterworks from Liechtenstein’s princely collections
National Gallery of Canada cites use of forced labour on royal estates in wartime
NewsMuseums & Heritage
New York workers mount rescue operation for Chinese-American artefacts after fire
Salvaging effort focuses on the remaining 80 percent of the archives of the Museum of Chinese in America
PreviewExhibitions
No stone unturned: an exhibition explores Cézanne’s fascination with rocks
Princeton show charts the artist’s enduring pursuit of geological compositions
NewsMuseums
Several US museums restrict staff travel to high-risk countries in response to coronavirus
Institutions like the National Gallery of Art and the Guggenheim remain open but alert to potential for closing as confirmed cases of Covid-19 rise
PreviewMuseums & Heritage
In the Met’s British galleries, a tale of artisans spurred by entrepreneurial forces
Installation weaves a 400-year narrative with global and sometimes dark threads
NewsMuseums
Ahmanson Foundation cuts off gifts of art to Lacma
Foundation president cites concern over a dramatic museum redesign that could force prized works into storage
NewsTerra Foundation for American Art
Terra Foundation for American Art recruits new leader from Colby College Museum
Sharon Corwin aims to help forge partnerships with arts organisations and interrogate histories of American art
PreviewExhibitions
'Strikingly experimental': major Donald Judd survey to open this week in New York
The exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, including 70 works made between 1960 and 1992, will trace the artist's development by focusing on key turning points in his career
PreviewExhibitions
'Cities are not that great': Rem Koolhaas on the appeal of the countryside
Guggenheim exhibition explores the theme of nonurban areas in its first show that has nothing to do with art or architecture
NewsMuseums
Smithsonian provost overseeing Cooper Hewitt after ouster of director
Caroline Baumann was reportedly forced to resign from the NY museum after concerns raised about her 2018 wedding
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Face-off with a founding father: Brooklyn honours African art by placing it amidst its other collections
New exhibition seeks to “fill in the blanks that are still present in museums and art history books”
InterviewFrieze Los Angeles 2020
Championing African American abstraction: inside the collection of Pamela Joyner
The San Francisco-based philanthropist tells us what she's bought and why
PreviewFrieze Los Angeles 2020
Embracing the visual overload: Los Angeles show celebrates the Pattern and Decoration movement
Museum of Contemporary art exhibition goes beyond the anti-Minimalist tagline
NewsMuseums & Heritage
After fire, Museum of Chinese in America hopes to salvage much of its collection
Curator says that conservators might be able to dry many wet objects in the museum’s archive
PreviewExhibitions
Exhibition celebrates a spirited collective of African-American photographers
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts chronicles achievements and inner debates of the Kamoinge Workshop
NewsMuseums
Instead of permanent space, Smithsonian will co-curate gallery at V&A East for two years
The Washington institution also announces joint effort with London communities to train young adults
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Museum of Chinese in America starts fund-raising after loss of its archive in a fire
An estimated 85,000 items are feared lost, including letters, antique wedding dresses and photographs
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Kehinde Wiley’s reimagining of Napoleon Bonaparte at the Brooklyn Museum to Luhring Augustine and Sam Fogg’s collaborative show on Gothic art
NewsMuseums & Heritage
International Center of Photography prepares to reopen in a far bigger home in New York
Lower East Side location will unite exhibition space with the institution's school of 3,500 students
NewsArtists
CalArts recruits alumni to create works financing students’ scholarships
From John Baldessari to Tony Oursler, the marketing effort unites artists of multiple generations
NewsAcquisitions
National Portrait Gallery acquires 20 works from collecting couple
Ian and Annette Cumming set out to commission likenesses of people who would remain renowned
PreviewExhibitions
Jacob Lawrence’s epic series depicting America's early struggles sets off on US tour
Twenty-three of the US artist’s surviving panels will be reunited for the first time in six decades
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Director is out at Erie Art Museum
Departure follows New York Times article describing objectionable behaviour with female employees
NewsConservation & Preservation
Puerto Rico prepares to assess toll of powerful earthquakes
A colonial-era church collapses and more damage to historic buildings is expected
NewsConservation
How medical experts helped curators discover the hidden secrets of a Senufo helmet mask
Spectral CT scans enabled the Dallas Museum of Art to identify unknown elements in the West African piece
NewsConservation & Preservation
Geneva-based foundation Aliph directs $10m to heritage conservation projects in conflict zones
Sites targeted range from a Yemeni palace in ruins to a shrine destroyed by the Islamic State in Iraq
NewsThe Year in Review 2019
From trafficked treasures to the ravages of climate change: the heritage headlines of 2019
We look back at the biggest stories of the year
NewsConservation & Preservation
Tefaf awards conservation grants for a Wright interior and a colonial Bolivian painting
V&A and Lacma plan to stabilise and restore works to their original appearance
PreviewExhibitions
Treasure trove of Fijian artefacts to reveal a rich artistic heritage at Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Exhibition includes 19th-century breast plates and clubs made from whale ivory, as well as a newly commissioned 26ft canoe
NewsConservation & Preservation
Science illuminates art in Detroit’s celebration of Bruegel’s The Wedding Dance
Conservators discover that the 1566 painting was once bluer and revisit the exposure of the notorious codpieces
NewsOpioid Crisis
Citing opioid crisis, Tufts University strips Sackler name from its buildings and programmes
Institution declares that the name “runs counter to the school’s mission”
NewsMuseums
Freer/Sackler rebrands its identity as the National Museum of Asian Art
Museum officials say the decision is unrelated to protests over the Sackler family's ties to Purdue Pharma
NewsArtists
Noguchi Museum launches digital archive about the globe-trotting artist’s life and career
Online trove includes 60,000 photographs, manuscripts, records and drawings and an updated catalogue raisonné
NewsConservation & Preservation
Conservators to restore Michelangelo’s Florence Pietà in full view of visitors
Restoration will remove centuries of grime and stabilise the sculpture at the Museo dell’Opera del Duomo
NewsConservation & Preservation
Scientists uncover a secret to rock art’s durability
Ancient artisans in British Columbia heated ochre “gunk” to high temperatures to achieve a vivid and long-lasting red
NewsExhibitions
Terra Foundation plans 2024 sequel to Art Design Chicago
Yearlong 2018 effort drew 2.5 million people and brought attention to overlooked artists
NewsMuseums & Heritage
New Hampshire museum acquires a rare house by Frank Lloyd Wright
The 1957 home, the Currier Museum of Art's second Wright dwelling, is built in the “Usonian Automatic” style, with rectangular concrete blocks
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Opening new galleries and showcasing its sphinx, Penn Museum rebrands its image
Museum at the University of Pennsylvania will open 10,000 sq. ft of reimagined spaces
NewsAcquisitions
Whitney Museum acquires 88 works by biennial artists
The works, by 40 artists, are among 250 that have entered the collection since the spring
NewsAcquisitions
Jayne Wrightsman leaves over 375 works of art and $80m to the Met
From European paintings to the decorative arts, the patron and her oil tycoon husband, who both served as trustees for decades, gave the New York museum more than 1,275 works in all
NewsDigitisation
Google and Lin-Manuel Miranda team up on a project to share Puerto Rican art online
Digitisation effort draws on works from four institutions in a push for cultural preservation
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Alexandre Singh's dark thriller at Metro Pictures to entrancing etchings at the Met, the best shows to see this Halloween weekend
NewsConservation & Preservation
After a discovery, Rothko Chapel moves to shore up its walls
Lack of steel reinforcement results in a plan to insert rebar, delaying the reopening of the Modernist sanctuary
NewsConservation & Preservation
In a conservation triumph, a 15th-century tapestry highlights the age of chivalry
“It’s the most spectacular representation of a tournament of that time,” a Met curator says
PreviewExhibitions
Celebrating a French artist who captured a young America
New-York Historical Society profiles the intrepid Baroness Hyde de Neuville
NewsConservation & Preservation
Citing daunting threats, World Monuments Fund lists 25 endangered sites
Bears Ears in the US, a Peruvian valley near Machu Picchu and Notre Dame in Paris join the 2020 roster
NewsGetty Center
Wildfire spread close to the Getty Center, but an official says the art is ‘just fine’
The campus in the Santa Monica Mountains was designed to resist fire, with a powerful irrigation system, million-gallon water tank and air conditioning that pushes smoke out instead of letting it in
NewsArtists
San Diego artist wins top prize in US portrait competition with immigration-themed animation
Washington's National Portrait Gallery will display finalists’ work in a contest that helped to vault the reputation of Amy Sherald
PreviewExhibitions
How a method of armour decorating in 16th-century Germany spawned a new printmaking technique
Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art charts the evolution of etching through Renaissance artists such as Albrecht Dürer and Lucas van Leyden
NewsAcquisitions
New York's Morgan Library receives ‘transformational’ trove of manuscripts and bindings
Bequest comes from New York collector Jayne Wrightsman, who amassed an 18th-century library to complement her celebrated French furnishings
NewsOpenings
Ruby City: collector Linda Pace's dream museum becomes reality in Texas
Wizard of Oz vision inspires new $15m contemporary art centre in San Antonio designed by David Adjaye