July 14, 2022 • View in browser
Good morning. 🌤 How many museums disclose salary information in job listings? Not enough, according to an advocacy group that tracks museum job boards. What do they have to hide? Ask the museum workers who make as little as $30k a year. More on that in Elaine Velie's report.
And in today's strange news, a man and his family were found living inside a children's museum in Nevada with many weapons.
Also today: Laurie Anderson, more from the unique Yiddishland Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (read our first report about the pavilion here), Afghan artists speak up, and more.
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Laurie Anderson Takes Stock of Today's Unpredictable Weather
Anderson insists that she doesn’t consider herself a political artist, but her retrospective, The Weather reveals that her artistic choices are entangled with her politics. | Murat Cem Mengüç
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Workers at the Philadelphia Museum of Art rallying for a fair union contract earlier this year. (photo by and courtesy Tim Tiebout)
A new database is combating hiring inequality by showing exactly which museum job boards post salaries in their listings.
A man was reportedly stockpiling an arsenal of weapons and residing with his family at the Children’s Museum of Northern Nevada.
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Mapping Out "Refugee Modernism" at the Venice Biennale
Yiddishland Pavilion artists Yevgeniy Fiks, Avia Moore, and others effectively question the borders that continue to define the art world. | Chelsea Haines
Afghan Artists Speak Out Against Oppression
In the online exhibition Before Silence, nine contemporary Afghan artists ruminate on their plight as refugees with targets on their backs. | Billy Anania
An Artist’s Miniature Monuments to Big Memories
From a pile of scraps and everyday detritus accumulated over the last 30 years, Lydia Ricci makes imperfectly perfect replicas of quotidian moments and objects. | Sarah Rose Sharp
FILM & DOCUMENTARY
How Art Helps to Manipulate Minds in Severance
The sci-fi thriller's meticulous attention to detail offers a world not soon forgotten with carefully chosen subliminal references lurking in the murky waters of our subconscious. | Billie WalkerÂ
A Documentary Traces How Prisoners Documented Nazi Concentration Camps
From Where They Stood examines the rare phenomenon of prisoners who were able to provide direct victim documentation of the Holocaust. | Dan Schindel
IN MEMORIAMÂ
Donato Amado (1962-2022)
Peruvian historian and Machu Picchu scholar | Asociación Cultural Peruanista
Marcus Fairs (1967-2022)
Founder of architecture magazine Dezeen |Â Dezeen
José Guirao (1959-2022)
Former Spanish culture minister |Â El PaÃs
Ritzi Jacobi (1941-2022)
Fiber artist |Â arttextstyle
Leroy Johnson (1937-2022)
Philadelphia artist and educator |Â WHYY Philadelphia
Spider Webb (1944-2022)
Tattoo artist |Â New York Times