museums

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• SOURCE: Foreign Policy
  7/28/2020
  

  Is It Time to Repatriate Africa’s Looted Art?

  Museums now face a moral reckoning over artifacts stolen by people who took colonial violence and racial superiority as a given. It is time to start having honest conversations about righting those wrongs.

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• SOURCE: Hyperllergenic
  7/27/2020
  

  Congress Votes in Favor of Creating National Museum of the American Latino

  If approved by the Senate, it would become the first Smithsonian museum specifically dedicated to the history and culture of Latinx communities.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  7/22/2020
  

  One-Third Of U.S. Museums May Not Survive The Year, Survey Finds

  Most of the museums surveyed made a point of providing educational resources to students during the lockdown. But those are precisely the kind of services that will need to be cut in the budget crunch ahead, according to almost two-thirds of museum directors.

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• SOURCE: Hyperallergic
  7/22/2020
  

  Tenement Museum Lays Off 76 Workers, Including Entire Staff of Part-time Educators

  The museum estimates at least a 50% budget reduction for the coming year (the museum’s annual budget before COVID-19 was about $11 million) due to the losses of revenue caused by the pandemic.

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• 7/19/2020
  

  Monumental Folly

  by Pete Daniel

  Change is on the front foot, and this is no time to allow wealth and ignorance to gain ground.  Achiever exhibits and sculpture gardens seem pathetic sideshows to the powerful history of the country.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  7/14/2020
  

  This Year Will End Eventually. Document It While You Can.

  Museums are working overtime to collect artifacts and ephemera from the pandemic and the racial justice movement — and they need your help.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  6/28/2020
  

  Defenders of Roosevelt Statue Converge on Natural History Museum

  Last week it was decided to remove the image because it evoked racism and colonialism. Sunday, the other side turned out.

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• SOURCE: UNC Press Blog
  6/9/2020
  

  Rumors of War in Richmond

  by Thomas J. Brown

  Kehinde Wiley's statue Rumors of War certainly draws meaning from its location, but it is also the capstone of a series on which the artist has been engaged since an early stage of his meteoric career, long before Confederate monuments stirred wide controversy.

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• SOURCE: National Museum of African American History and Culture
  5/31/2020
  

  National Museum of African American History and Culture Releases “Talking About Race” Web Portal

  Research shows that many people feel they do not have the information needed to discuss race in a way that is candid, safe and respectful of other viewpoints and experiences.  

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• SOURCE: Women's Suffrage Centennial Commission
  5/25/2020
  

  Curator's Cut: An Inside Look at DC's Suffrage Exhibits (Wednesday May 27, 7:00 PM EDT)

  The curators of three Washington-based exhibits on the centennial of the 19th Amendment discuss the history of women's suffrage. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/25/2020
  

  How Will We Remember the Pandemic? Museums Are Already Beginning to Decide

  Historians including David Kennedy, Martha S. Jones, and Brenda Stevenson, along with curators at national and local museums, discuss the assembly of artifacts to document the COVID crisis for posterity. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/19/2020
  

  Pandemic Escape: Volunteers Transcribe Sally Ride’s Papers, Rosa Parks’s Recipes, Walt Whitman’s Poems

  Museums and research libraries are reporting huge spikes of do-it-yourself historians.

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• SOURCE: Montgomery Advertiser
  5/19/2020
  

  Montgomery Freedom Rides Museum To Celebrate Anniversary on Facebook, 5/20-21

  The Montgomery Freedom Rides Museum is closed due to COVID-19. They are hosting observations of the anniversary of th 1961 civil rights action on their facebook page through Thursday, 5/21. 

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• SOURCE: WTOP
  5/16/2020
  

  ‘Everyone Has A Story’: How Will World Remember Pandemic?

  Museums and historical societies are collecting materials, often with help from people accustomed to capturing and sharing even the most mundane moments around them.

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• SOURCE: National Museum of African American History and Culture
  5/14/2020
  

  We Return Fighting: The African American Experience in World War I (Virtual Exhibition)

  This exhibition immerses virtual visitors into a conversation that examines what fighting in the first global war meant for African Americans.

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• SOURCE: The Art Newspaper
  5/4/2020
  

  Cache Of Russian Avant-Garde Works Surfaces In Regional Museum's Basement

  A leading Russian avant-garde expert says he has identified dozens of works by artists such as Wassily Kandinsky, Alexander Rodchenko and Varvara Stepanova languishing in an obscure history museum in the Kirov region.

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• SOURCE: WCMU
  5/1/2020
  

  'Fresh Air' Remembers Jazz Archivist And Historian Michael Cogswell

  Michael Cogswell was a musician and historian who managed the Louis Armstrong House Museum in Corona, Queens. He was interviewed by Fresh Air in 2001.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/30/2020
  

  This is how Bad Things are for Museums: They Now Have a Green Light to Sell Off Their Art

  The Association of Art Museum Directors has relaxed its guidelines against selling works of art for operating funds. Now, the notion of selling off a Claude Monet or two to plug a budgetary hole—or to fend off a total financial meltdown—is suddenly something to contemplate.

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• 4/26/2020
  

  Historic Houses Turn to Technology Amid COVID-19 Closures

  by Hana Hancock

  Historic home sites have responded to the COVID crisis by developing online exhibits. More work remains to be done, and many cultural and historical institutions are in financial peril from the crisis, reports HNN's Social Media Editor. 

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  4/21/2020
  

  A Museum Devoted to Survivors Now Faces its Own Fight to Live

  Like other small, endangered arts organizations, the Tenement Museum in Manhattan has drastically cut its budget as it tries to weather the pandemic.