BEST

Kitchen Confidence – Need some culinary inspiration to see you through the
quarantine? Artists from around the world chimed in with their
tried and true recipes.

Germany’s Promise to Artists – In the wake
of widespread job losses and lockdowns, Germany is setting a high bar for supporting its
cultural scene.

Future Imperfect – TOn this week’s Art Angle podcast, three
members of the Artnet News team weigh in on what the future
looks like for museums, galleries, and art in general.

Museums in Bloom – Museums around the
world are sending each other virtual flower
bouquets on social media to brighten up these uncertain
times.

Kenny Rogers was a Photographer – The
dealin’ may be done for the late country crooner and gambler, but
his surprisingly accomplished photographs live
on.

Masked Crusaders – Artists are banding together and donating face masks
previously used for woodworking or other artistic practices to
health care workers who are in dire need of supplies.

Art Kids Are Having a (Virtual) House Party
– As usual, the art world is too cool for regular technology, opting
to use an “anything goes” app to stay connected instead.

WORST

Remembering Paul Kasmin – The dealer ran
his eponymous gallery in New York for the past 30 years before
dying at age 60 after a protracted battle with
cancer.

RIP Maurice Berger – The art curator and historian died this week at age
63, after a laudable career advocating for equality in contemporary
art.

Museums in Peril – Museums around the world are reckoning with the
current state of lockdowns, and looking at a future in which
the art-viewing landscape could be fundamentally changed.

Congress Short Shrifts Art – Despite the
Met Museum’s social media rallying cry for
#CongressSaveCulture, the stimulus package gave a paltry sum to help arts
institutions. 

Students Up in Arms – Art students from Yale and other school are
lobbying for tuition refunds, arguing that virtual studio
classes are not what they signed up for.

Looters Thwarted at Notre Dame – Two men
were nabbed while trying to steal medieval stones
from Notre Dame’s cathedral in the midst of Paris’s citywide
lockdown.

Layoffs in Los Angeles – The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles has laid
off all of its part-time employees as months of closures loom
on the horizon.

Art Basel Shifts to September – The
marquee art fair has opted to stage its Swiss fair
in September instead of June, joining an increasingly crowded
year-end art calendar.

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