As the UK emerges from its second lockdown, the Tate announced it will be cutting 12% of its workforce. The museum explains this devastating decision with stats around visitor numbers and plummeting income.  

For a pleasant distraction, take a look at the painstaking attention to detail that went into the historical costumes of The Crown and Queen’s Gambit. And don’t miss Dan Schindel’s review of Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland, which stars Frances McDormand. Schindel writes that the film “produces an acute sense of realism unlike almost anything else a mainstream movie has been able to create in years.”

A strike was organized this week by the “Capítulo 3000,” a workforce of Mexico’s arts institutions comprised of non-unionized workers considered service providers, not staff, who are paid on a monthly basis and lack the benefits of their colleagues.

As the pandemic rages on in Mexico, and in-person actions such as last year’s museum shutdown are less feasible, workers are turning to the digital sphere to make their demands known.