The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
With the number of Covid-19 cases rising throughout the US, many museums that reopened in the summer or fall are now facing a second wave of closures. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, announced today that it will close from 16 December to comply with Mayor Marty Walsh’s orders of a partial shutdown of the city. Down the street, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Collection will also shut its doors, and across town the ICA Boston is doing the same. The MFA has said it hopes to reopen in January.
Museums across Philadelphia, including the Barnes Foundation and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, are also closing, as is the Milwaukee Museum of Art, which aims for a second reopening in January. In Los Angeles, most museums have been closed since the pandemic first sent the city into lockdown earlier this year. According to a recent survey by the American Alliance of Museums, nearly a third of museums throughout the US have remained closed since March.
The Smithsonian s National Museum of Asian Art, comprising the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, has been allotted a $2.5m grant From Lilly Endowment Inc. to support a portfolio of projects that highlight the intersection of Asian art and religious diversity Freer and Sackler staff
As cultural and academic institutions across the US struggle to make ends meet in a dispiriting Covid-19 landscape, a phalanx of grant-makers at federal and city agencies and nonprofit foundations are stepping up to assist them in both stopgap and transformative ways.
Today the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced $32.8m in grants to support 213 humanities projects in 44 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Among them are a partnership between the University of Hawaii, Honolulu, and the American Council of the Blind and Helen Keller National Center to develop best practices for creating audio descriptions of humanities collectio
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Tim Kollatschny, standing and holding their 15-year-old dog, Chloe, and Stephen Goldberg pose for a portrait in the living room of their condo at The Mond at The Museums.Brett Coomer, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
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Three pieces by Ellsworth Kelly decorate the dining room, and a pair of Heracleum chandeliers by Moooi hang over the table.Brett Coomer, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
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The dining room has a trio of pieces by Ellsworth Kelly, left, and a large-format abstract painting by Dion Johnson, right.Brett Coomer, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less