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
Posts published in “museums”
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
Natural History Museum Brushes Up for a Reopening
By Gotham Rex on September 2, 2020
The American Museum of Natural History is going for an intimate experience — allowing hundreds, not thousands, of visitors in per hour — when it reopens on Sept. 9. Source: New York Times
This Way to Chloë Bass’s Outdoor Art Show
By Gotham Rex on September 1, 2020
The artist’s exhibition in St. Nicholas Park, mounted by the Studio Museum in Harlem, revolves around questions like: “How much of life is coping?” Source: New York Times
A Visitor’s Guide to MoMA and the Met
By Gotham Rex on August 28, 2020
What you need to know before you head back to the museums, from safety precautions to the exhibitions still on view. Source: New York Times
How the Met Was Made
By Gotham Rex on August 27, 2020
The Metropolitan Museum of Art reopens, commemorating its 150-year anniversary with an exhibition that asks: How does this museum give an account of itself today? Source: New York Times
Félix Fénéon, the Collector-Anarchist Who Was Seurat’s First Champion
By Gotham Rex on August 27, 2020
The Museum of Modern Art reopens with an exemplary show devoted to an essential figure who multitasked his way through the aesthetic and political ferment of Belle Époque Paris. Source: New York Times