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Museums
Staff members at the Metropolitan Museum of Art sent a letter to leadership after the museum’s head of the European painting department posted on Instagram said monuments needed to be protected from “zealots.” [The New York Times]
In a new open letter, former staffers at the New Orleans Museum of Art allege that the museum fostered a “plantation-like culture” of systemic racism. [ARTnews]
The Philadelphia Museum of Art plans to cut more than 100 jobs, or 20 percent of its staff, through “furloughs, voluntary departures, and possibly layoffs”. [The Philadelphia Inquirer]
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Protests are planned for when the Akron Art Museum reopens after its coronavirus-related closure. [Beacon Journal]
Art & Artists
Arthur Jafa’s now iconic video work Love is the Message, The Message is Death (2016) will be livestreamed for 48 hours on the websites of 14 museums, beginning tomorrow. [The Art Newspaper]
Jason Farago reviews the new book Korean Art From 1953: Collision, Innovation, Interaction, writing that this “lavish yet scholarly” tome is “vital artistic genealogy of our planet’s current cultural powerhouse.” [The New York Times]
Artist Katherine McMahon and musician Ray Angry will hand out 500 Lysol-sprayed $1 bills on silver platters at Guild Hall in the Hamptons as part of a performance called Free Clean Money. [Artnet News]
A group of 40 London galleries, who first began talking via a WhatsApp group, will launch concurrent exhibitions via the AR app Vortic. [The Art Newspaper]
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Phillips will offer two fresh-to-market paintings by the late artist Matthew Wong within the house’s marquee 20th Century & Contemporary Art auctions, taking place on July 2. [Phillips]
And More
In case you missed it, here are the 18 trends that will move the art world forward. [ARTnews]
Helen Donahue, who has worked on brand apologies, looks at the aesthetics of the new on-brand Photoshopped Apology used recently—and why they’re getting it so wrong. [Art in America]
The Uffizi Gallery in Florence has become an unlikely class clown on TikTok with its often irreverent posts. [The New York Times]
Art critic Raquel Gutiérrez reflects on the meaning of Pride and its history as a protest, and offers a short playlist that highlights Pride’s political power. [NPR]