BEST

Germany’s Generosity – Just days after the
government unleashed a €500 million emergency stimulus package,
German art workers received checks in the
mail to help them deal with unexpected financial
troubles.

Quarantine Creativity – An Instagram
account featuring people recreating artworks from
everyday objects has become a social media sensation.

Artist Groups Come to the Rescue – In
separate initiatives, the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation and the J.
Paul Getty Trust will give a combined $15 million in emergency aid to artists and
arts organizations affected by the coronavirus.

A Betwitching
Story – The remarkable story of Agnes Pelton and her
transcendental paintings feature in this week’s episode of the
Art Angle Podcast, which has also been published in written form as
an extended interview.

Kashing in on Kanye – The rapper’s high
school drawings were valued by an expert on Antiques Roadshow as
worth up to $20,000.

Art at Home – Photographers are turning to
Instagram to show off homemade quarantine still lifes.

Institutional Support – The massive
cultural space Officine Grandi Riparazioni in Turin Italy is
being transformed into a hospital for patients
dealing with COVID-19.

Tents for Triage – The production company Art
Market Productions is pivoting from building art-fair tents to
building field hospitals.

WORST

Remembering David Driskell –
The artist and curator, who is renown for his scholarly emphasis on
black art in America, died from coronavirus at the age of
88.

Auction Houses Furlough – Major auction
houses Christie’s and Sotheby’s are furloughing staff
and instituting pay cuts for executives as the economic fallout
from the coronavirus widens.

SFMoMa Slashes Staff – SFMoMA, which faces
$8 million in losses, is also enacting sweeping measures to tighten
costs by laying off or furloughing its own workers.

Mourning the End of an Era – Five artists
spoke to Artnet News about their experiences at the San Francisco Art
Institute, which faces what could be a permanent closure.

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