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May 13, 2020

At This Museum, Education Staff Prove More Vital Than Ever During Pandemic

While museums across the country have chosen to lay off or furlough educators, at the Asian Art Museum the education department is busily at work.

Emily Wilson

What to Listen to This Week

Enjoy this roundup of podcasts, playlists, live readings, and interviews coming out of Los Angeles.

Elisa Wouk Almino

News

Frieze Online Brings New Price Transparency and AR Tools To Take the Art “Home”

Frieze is offering free browsing for the first time and an app that allows you to imagine artworks inside your home. The director of Frieze New York, Loring Randolph, elaborates on these features and more in an interview with Hyperallergic.

China Taunts US Response to COVID-19 With Absurdly Comical Lego Animation

A Chinese news agency released a propagandistic cartoon to herald its success at combating the coronavirus — that is admittedly entertaining.

Dancers and Performers Offer “Real Talk” on Canceled Shows, Contracts, and More

This week, contributors to the living document “Creating New Futures” will host a conversation focused the ripple effects of the pandemic and the need for radical change in the arts.

Dessane Lopez Cassell

An Ebay Purchase That Revealed the Everyday Lives of French Surrealists

Reading between the lines of contact information for friends, graphologists, psychoanalysts, and plumbers, Brigitte Benkemoun’s Finding Dora Maar reveals a map of a bygone France.

Karen Chernick

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