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White House Gift Shop Releases Out-of-Touch Coin Commemorating “Global Fight Against COVID-19”
The $100 limited-edition coin features imagery of the microscopic virus and a presidential podium, surrounded by Trumpian slogans.
Hakim Bishara
Hakim Bishara is Hyperallergic's Editor-in-Chief. He is a recipient of the 2019 Andy Warhol Foundation and Creative Capital Arts Writers Grant, and he holds an MFA in Art Writing from the School of Visual Arts in New York.
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Spreadsheet Highlights Major Income Disparities at Cultural Institutions
According to a document by the group Indebted Cultural Workers, MoMA director Glenn Lowry takes home about 48 times the salary of an education assistant at the museum.
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Museums Worldwide Prepare to Reopen Their Doors After Lockdown
Museums in the United States remain shuttered, but museums in Germany have begun to cautiously open their doors, and museums in Hong Kong were forced to close for a second time due to a second wave.
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Wolfgang Tillmans Gets Artists to Sell $50 Posters for Global Fundraiser
The 2020Solidarity fundraiser features posters by Tillmans and other acclaimed artists like Nicole Eisenman, Betty Tompkins, and David Wojnarowicz.
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Metropolitan Museum Lays Off 81 Employees; Now Estimates $150M in Losses
The laid-off workers belong to the visitor services and retail departments. The Met’s director and president will take 20% pay cuts.
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Museums Worldwide Post the Creepiest Objects in Their Collections
A social media challenge by the Yorkshire Museum prompted institutions to share chilling photos of objects, including a preserved a taxidermic “mermaid” and a pincushion made to look like childrens’ heads.
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NYC’s Lesley Heller Gallery Will Close Permanently
The COVID-19 crisis has had tremendous impact on small and mid-sized galleries in New York.
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Artists, Scholars, and Museum Workers Petition Museums to Retain Staff During Pandemic
“Before a single museum worker is laid off, let every mid-six- or seven-figure museum director draw a salary of zero,” reads one petition.
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The Pandemic’s Invisible Agent
Thin as one-thousandth the width of an eyelash, the malign virus appears to us in magnified images as a round glob of genetic material surrounded by a beady shell. The so-called crowns (corona in Latin) on its surface are its means of destruction.
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Virtually Tour World Heritage Sites
April 18 marks World Heritage Day. Visit UNESCO World Heritage sites like the Taj Mahal Stonehenge through Google Earth.
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How Is Banksy Spending Quarantine? By Turning His Bathroom Into a Work of Art
Stuck at home, Banksy has painted his bathroom with his signature cheeky rats, toppling products and ruining his toilet.
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NYC Man Arrested for Threatening to Bomb Central Park’s Alice in Wonderland Sculpture
Kevin Fallon, a 30-year-old New Yorker, was arrested on April 11 after police found three pipe bombs in his apartment.