Baltimore Museum of Art announces final 2020 Vision acquisitions
Loïs Mailou Jones. Untitled (Two Women). c. 1945. The Baltimore Museum of Art: Purchase with exchange funds from the Pearlstone Family Fund and partial gift of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. Image Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY.
BALTIMORE, MD
.-The Baltimore Museum of Art announced today 33 new acquisitions made as part of its 2020 Vision initiative, which includes a commitment to only purchase works by female-identifying artists this calendar year. Among the highlights entering the collection are mixed-media sculpture and paintings by Theresa Chromati, Shirley Gorelick, Loïs Mailou Jones, Valerie Maynard, Betye Saar, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, and Kay WalkingStick; works on paper by Camille Billops, Margaret Burroughs, Lea Grundig, Joyce J. Scott, and Zarina; and photographs by Laura Aguilar, Zackary Drucker (with A.L. Steiner), Nona Faustine, Martha Rosler, and Ming
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French Museums to Remain Closed Through January 7
French arts institutions, already enduring their second pandemic-related shutdown since spring, will remain dark through January 7 of next year, in accordance with new measures introduced by the country’s prime minister, Jean Castex. The new date is three weeks beyond the originally projected reopening date of December 15 and represents a crushing financial blow, as the holidays are typically a time when museums see a surge in visitors.
Instead France, like many regions around the world, is seeing a surge in Covid-19, with new daily cases reaching 13,750 on December 10, a markedly higher number than the 5,000 that represents the highest threshold at which museums, theaters, and cinemas are allowed to reopen. Instead, these, along with restaurants, bars, and gyms, will remain closed even as lockdown lifts on December 15. Many cultural venues were already apprehensive about their fiscal prospects, as an 8 p.m
France s second lockdown ends next week © Fran Boloni
French museums were dealt another blow yesterday evening when the government announced they must remain closed for a further three weeks, until 7 January, instead of opening on 15 December as previously anticipated.
Museums, along with theatres and cinemas, had planned to reopen next week at the end of France’s second lockdown. But as the number of new Covid-19 cases has not reached the 5,000 per day threshold set by the government France had 14,595 contaminations yesterday and has lost a total of around 56,940 lives during the pandemic more measures were introduced by Prime Minister Jean Castex.