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# What's Up With Museum Layoffs, Union Problems, and Untouchable Endowments?
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/coronavirus-series-ep5/
- Published: 2020-04-16T20:23:19.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:22:39.000Z
- Description: As news of layoffs and furloughs continue, the Hyperallergic team takes a look at the issues of concern at museums and elsewhere.
- Author: Hrag Vartanian
- Tags: Podcast, COVID-19, Unions, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:41 (2019, 2020, part 2)

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(graphic Hrag Vartanian/Hyperallergic)

[This episode](https://hyperallergic.simplecast.com/episodes/whats-up-with-museum-layoffs-union-problems-and-untouchable-endowments?ref=hyperallergic.com), in our ongoing series tracking the impact of COVID-19 on the art community, I talk to the Hyperallergic news team (Jasmine Weber, Valentina Di Liscia, and Hakim Bishara) about the latest Pandemic-related news, including [why museums can’t dip into their endowments ](https://hyperallergic.com/why-museums-cant-always-fall-back-on-endowments/)as easily as we might like, the [Guggenheim’s decision to furlough 92 employees](https://hyperallergic.com/guggenheim-furloughs-staff/), why some union supporters are crying foul with the [recent art](https://hyperallergic.com/uovo-art-handlers-file-labor-board-complaint-saying-they-were-laid-off-for-union-support/) [world layoffs](https://hyperallergic.com/frye-art-museum-covid-19/). We also discuss the impact of the [cancellation of Indian Market](https://hyperallergic.com/largest-native-arts-market-in-us-postponed-to-2021/) in Santa Fe, an [artist fundraiser for Elmhurst Hospital](https://hyperallergic.com/pictures-for-elmhurst/) in Queens, [how artists are helping to decorate hospitals](https://hyperallergic.com/artists-decorate-hospital-icu/), and even [some](https://hyperallergic.com/council-to-re-open-america/) [memes](https://hyperallergic.com/anthony-fauci/).

A special thanks to Nathan Fox for letting us use his track “I Can’t Hang.” To learn more, you can check out [his Facebook page](https://www.facebook.com/NathanFoxMusic/).

And a thank you to Gina Volpe for allowing us to use a short clip of her catchy song “[Don’t Touch Your Face](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfhajHlw5i0&ref=hyperallergic.com),” and for answering my questions about her inspiration.

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