A Year in Masks

Good morning. 🌤 Today, a year in masks, museums in Los Angeles cautiously reopen, and various museums

Mar 23, 2021 • View in browser

Good morning. 🌤 Today, a year in masks, museums in Los Angeles cautiously reopen, and various museums around the US respond to escalating violence against Asian Americans following the shootings targeting Atlanta spas on March 16.– Elisa Wouk Almino, Senior Editor

What's Happening

Artist Jenifer K. Wofford’s mural "Pattern Recognition" (2020) on the façade of San Francisco's Asian Art Museum (courtesy the artist and the Asian Art Museum)

Museums across the US responded to last week’s hate crime in Atlanta with statements addressing the lethal consequences of xenophobia against AAPI communities in the country, which has spiked since the beginning of the pandemic. Los Angeles-area museums were given the green light to reopen and while some have already announced their reopening dates, others are still finalizing plans to reopen this summer. More than 600 part-time faculty members at the New School in New York City signed a petition denouncing “skyrocketing healthcare costs” prompted by a change in the university’s healthcare plan this year.

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