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Audience Report: Gongs and Goodbyes as the Rubin Museum Shuts Its Doors

October 15, 2024

NY Times - On Sunday the Rubin Museum of Art shut its doors, bringing to an end its two decades as a home for Himalayan Asian art in the Manhattan neighborhood of Chelsea. - read more ...

Two-thirds of New York City’s Arts and Recreation Jobs Have Been Lost to the Pandemic

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March 1, 2021

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Hyperallergic- Employment in the arts, entertainment, and recreation in New York City has experienced the largest decline among the city’s economic sectors during the COVID-19 pandemic, plummeting by 66 percent...

A New, Safe Home for the Louvre’s Unseen Treasures

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February 16, 2021

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NY TIMES - An ultramodern conservation center in northern France is a haven for flood-threatened items from the museum’s central Paris basement. - read more ...

Brooklyn Museum to Sell 12 Works as Pandemic Changes the Rules

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September 18, 2020

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The New York Times - Museums selling their art has long been frowned upon, but recent financial pressures have sent works to the auction block at Christie’s. The proceeds would pay for the care of the collectio...

Museums and Other New York Cultural Institutions Can Open Aug. 24

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August 19, 2020

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NY TIMES - Museums and other cultural institutions will be allowed to open in New York City starting on Aug. 24, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said on Friday, following five months of a pandemic shutdown that has result...

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

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June 23, 2020

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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 ...