In celebrating the Met’s 150th anniversary, Andrew Bolton of the museum’s Costume Institute could not have designed a better show for this strange, complicated moment. Source: New York Times
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K.G.B. Museum Closes; Lipstick Gun and Other Spy Relics Go on Sale
By Gotham Rex on October 28, 2020
A Lithuanian collector is shutting his espionage museum in Manhattan after less than two years, citing the pandemic. Source: New York Times
A First-Time Survey of Asian Art Gets a Second Chance to Dazzle
By Gotham Rex on October 22, 2020
The curators of the Asia Society Triennial planned a really big show. They didn’t plan on reconfiguring it for a city dealing with a pandemic. Source: New York Times
Chinatown Museum Gets $3 Million After Fire Threatens Its Archives
By Gotham Rex on October 9, 2020
The grant is a “game changer” for the Museum of Chinese in America, which was also shut down by the pandemic in March. Source: New York Times
Guggenheim’s Top Curator Is Out as Inquiry Into Basquiat Show Ends
By Gotham Rex on October 8, 2020
An independent investigation found no mistreatment of a Black curator, Chaédria LaBouvier, but the chief curator, Nancy Spector, who is white, is leaving after 34 years. Source: New York Times
Beba’s Story Tells of Jewish Life Before the Nazis
By Gotham Rex on September 30, 2020
An exhibition based on the recently found autobiography of Beba Epstein, a fifth grader in Europe in the 1930s, has been posted online by the YIVO Institute. Source: New York Times
Frick Announces Plans for Its Two-Year Stay in Breuer Building
By Gotham Rex on September 30, 2020
While its mansion is under renovation, the Frick will show its permanent collection in the Brutalist building owned by the Whitney and recently occupied by the Met. Source: New York Times
Museum Fires Curator Who It Says Sexually Harassed Student Researcher
By Gotham Rex on September 23, 2020
The American Museum of Natural History acted after investigators it hired reviewed a complaint filed against an expert on invertebrate zoology. Source: New York Times
Things to Do This Week
By Gotham Rex on September 19, 2020
You could also check out a Sims-inspired art show, get the expert take on Fashion Week or try a TrapAerobics class. Source: New York Times
Monuments That Celebrate Communal Struggles, Not Flawed Men
By Gotham Rex on September 18, 2020
Contemporary sculptures by Jeffrey Gibson and others, part of “Monuments Now” at Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens, draw on the past to look toward the future. Source: New York Times
The Whitney Canceled Their Exhibition. Now Those Artists Want Reform.
By Gotham Rex on September 17, 2020
Last month, the museum acquired works from 80 artists, often through discounted sales. A new letter signed by more than half of the artists asks for substantive changes in the Whitney’s policies. Source: New York Times
Guggenheim Cuts Staff by 11 Percent Ahead of Reopening
By Gotham Rex on September 16, 2020
The museum announced Wednesday that 24 employees would be laid off and that eight others have taken voluntary separation agreements. Source: New York Times
New York’s Reopened Museums: Where to Go and What to See
By Gotham Rex on September 10, 2020
What you need to know before venturing back out to see art, from safety precautions to the exhibitions still on view. Source: New York Times
An Artist Continues Her Applause for Essential Workers
By Gotham Rex on September 8, 2020
Mierle Laderman Ukeles is known for shaking the hand of every employee in the Department of Sanitation. Her latest work may be less tactile, but it is no less heartfelt. Source: New York Times
How Do You Open an Interactive Museum in a Pandemic? Very Carefully
By Gotham Rex on September 3, 2020
Curators of the new Makeup Museum had to completely rethink their first exhibition. Source: New York Times