While
America’s Black Holocaust Museum has remained closed throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, national discussions around systemic racism and social justice have caused the museum to take on a new role in the community, said president and chief executive officer Bert Davis.
Davis said the museum has stepped up as a convener of discussions on race and inequality in the community over the past year, even as COVID has delayed the grand reopening of its new facility in Milwaukee’s Bronzeville district.
Davis shared an update on ABHM and an outlook for museums nationally during a discussion hosted Monday by the Greater Milwaukee Committee.
Thomas Cole,
Arch of Nero (1846). The painting, owned by the Newark Museum of Art, will hit the auction block at Sotheby s.
When the Newark Museum of Art announced a plan to sell 17 objects in March, it provided few details as to which artworks might appear on the auction block. But a gradual release of the specifics has enraged some historians, including previous employees of the museum, who described the sale as a misguided attempt to monetize some of the collection’s best examples of American art, including a painting by the landscape artist Thomas Cole.
On Friday, opponents of the auction released a letter addressed to the museum’s director, Linda Harrison, demanding that she “cancel the self-diminishment and monetization of Newark’s art” because it was “inflicting irreparable damage” on the institution.
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After a painful year of joblessness, the future has finally brightened for Alycia St. Germain, a 22-year-old college senior at the University of Minnesota.
Having lost a part-time gig at Barnes and Noble last March as the viral pandemic tore through the U.S. economy, she was left unemployed like tens of millions of other Americans. But now, St. Germain has a job lined up with benefits even before graduation and in her chosen field of developmental psychology. A family friend established a new child-care center in St. Paul, and St. Germain landed a job as an assistant in the infant room.
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Class of 2021 may compete with 2020 grads for this year s jobs
Natalie Naranjo-Morett stands for a portrait Monday, April 19, 2021, in San Diego. I ve started to look for jobs, said Natalie Naranjo-Morett, who will graduate in June with a history degree from the University of California San Diego. I want to go into museum work, but that s become very difficult because of the pandemic. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
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