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# How Are the Arts in LA, the US Southwest, and Beyond Weathering the Pandemic?
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/covid-19-ep6/
- Published: 2020-04-29T17:00:25.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:46:39.000Z
- Description: News about new museum layoffs and other problems, art galleries closures, and the cancellation of the Indian Market in Santa Fe are all part of this week's episode.
- Author: Hrag Vartanian
- Tags: Podcast, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:41 (2019, 2020, part 2)

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Even a “Leonardo” needs to cover up (artwork by John Seed for Hyperallergic)

News about new museum layoffs and other problems**,** art galleries closures, and the cancellation of the Indian Market in Santa Fe are all part of [this week’s episode](https://hyperallergic.simplecast.com/episodes/how-are-the-arts-in-la-the-us-southwest-and-beyond-weathering-the-pandemic?ref=hyperallergic.com) with Hyperallergic’s news editor Jasmine Weber**,** LA Editor Elisa Wouk Almino, and Ellie Duke, our Southwest editor based in Santa Fe, NM.

We discuss the Museum of Contemporary Art’s decision to [furlough most of its staff](https://hyperallergic.com/a-week-after-layoffs-la-moca-furloughs-most-of-its-staff/) and then [lay off 97 part-time workers](https://hyperallergic.com/moca-los-angeles-fires-97-part-time-employees/), the impact of [canceling Santa Fe’s Indian Market](https://hyperallergic.com/largest-native-arts-market-in-us-postponed-to-2021/), and the [launch of our series that looks at some of the Native American artists and artisans](https://hyperallergic.com/what-did-we-do-before-hyperallergic/)who won’t be able to show at the August gathering. We also talk about [images from the 1918 influenza pandemic](https://hyperallergic.com/1918-influenza-pandemic-covid-19/), the [complicated problems of museum endowments](https://hyperallergic.com/why-museums-cant-always-fall-back-on-endowments/), and [how museums the world over are slowly opening up](https://hyperallergic.com/museums-covid-19/), not to mention a few that have been forced to close again because of a new wave of infections. And on a lighter side, we discuss [Alan Nakagawa’s social distancing haiku project](https://hyperallergic.com/alan-nakagawa-social-distancing-haiku-ocma/).

Then I reach out to writer Anthony Majanlahti in Rome, who discusses his [recent article about the history of disease, faith, and recovery](https://hyperallergic.com/a-history-of-disease-faith-and-recovery-in-rome/) in the Italian capital, and what life in Rome is like today. As a historian of Rome, Majalathni is a great source of information on the city’s long history with disease.

And a very special thanks to Apollo Kings for letting us use their new song, “[Trust Issues](https://open.spotify.com/album/7zt8VFMdhqFNpoYBLqbRJN?si=yU9aocbtTz6oy6NexrBQOQ&ref=hyperallergic.com).”

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