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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.
Creator Orkan Telhan, who is both an artist and associate professor at Penn, was asked to make the work for the art museum s Designs for Different Futures exhibit, which was on display in 2019.
The piece is titled Ouroboros Steak and Telhan presents it as a DIY meal kit for replicating your own cells for consumption.
It was created while considering climate change s negative impact on food production in the future, and meant as a criticism of the rising popularity of vegetarian lab-grown meats.
Telhan, who named the piece after the ancient symbol of a snake that is eating its own tail, sees his work as a commentary on a future where meat production and other climate change-causing factors have caused so much damage to the environment that the scarcity of food has created a need for human steaks, he told the New York Times.
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A Philadelphia flaneur
Photograph courtesy of Girard College.
This is not a walk on the wild side, though it will take you to three Philadelphia sites much less visited than Elfreth’s Alley, the Liberty Bell, or Rittenhouse Square. If I find them more intriguing than those picturesque spots it is simply because this is where the city’s history lives on in some interesting twenty-first-century ways. The neighborhood, called either Spring Garden or Fairmount/Art Museum, is close enough to the Philadelphia Museum of Art for the walk to begin at the museum’s Perelman Building. (You can also start at the Barnes Foundation on Benjamin Franklin Parkway and walk north, though that will take somewhat longer.)