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Mystic’s Maritime Art Gallery to close as marine art takes a dive

June 23, 2020

The Art Newspaper - For 51 years, the Mystic Seaport Museum in Connecticut has had a Maritime Art Gallery, devoted to paintings by contemporary marine artists that are for sale to the public. But this summer, t...

The Africa Center Is Commemorating the End of Slavery in the US With a Three-Story Black Lives Matter Installation

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June 23, 2020

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Artnet - The Africa Center in New York is celebrating Juneteenth, the holiday marking the end of slavery in the US, with a new 45-foot-tall window display proclaiming the message “Black Lives Matter.” - read m...

“Rather than attempt to reconcile museums’ contradictions, we should start again”

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May 15, 2020

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dezeen - In late summer 1939, in anticipation of the imminent start of the second world war, all the paintings in London's National Gallery were taken down and transported to an old slate mine in Wales for safe...

Why Los Angeles is America’s free museum capital

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April 16, 2020

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The Art Newspaper- The coronavirus has changed US museums’ priorities faster than you can buy hand sanitiser—instead of trying to pack their galleries, institutions have closed their doors altogether to limit v...

AAMD loosens rules for museums seeking to divert income amid coronavirus crisis

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April 16, 2020

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The Art Newspaper - While legal hurdles remain, the museum directors’ association will not penalise members who redirect restricted funds to cover operating expenses. - read more ...

Museums in China, South Korea, Japan Begin to Reopen After Coronavirus

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March 17, 2020

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Artnews - As the new coronavirus (Covid-19) continued its rapid spread throughout the world last month, governments in China, South Korea, and Japan ordered all national museums closed as an aggressive measure ...

Here are the museums that have closed (so far) due to coronavirus

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March 16, 2020

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The Art Newspaper- Museums and heritage sites across Italy, the country most affected by the virus after China, will be closed until at least 3 April following an emergency decree from the Italian government on...

For the First Time in Its History, the Netherlands Is Returning an Enormous Trove of Artifacts to Its Former Colonial Territory of Indonesia

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January 14, 2020

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artnet news - The objects, some of which date back to 5000 B.C., will go on view at the National Museum of Indonesia this June. - read more...

Images of 100,000 Artworks From Paris Museum Collections Now Freely Available to the Public

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January 14, 2020

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Hyperallergic - aris Musées announced yesterday that it is now offering 100,000 digital reproductions of artworks in the city’s museums as Open Access — free of charge and without restrictions — via its Collect...

Can MoMA’s Expansion Ever Really Be Finished?

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October 16, 2019

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artnet news - The grand, gleaming architectural and curatorial complex that is the new Museum of Modern Art is the work of hundreds of specialists, patrons, designers, and other visionaries. But it is above al...