Security staff at the Museum of Modern Art in New York clashed with activists during the latest action in the “Strike MoMA” campaign last Friday. Hyperallergic has an on-the-ground report of the demonstration as well as an in-depth analysis of the museum and protesters’ conflicting narratives, with activists pushing back against MoMA’s characterization of the protest as “violent,” for which the museum has not provided any evidence.

The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC laid off its entire retail division last month, leaving more than two dozen employees without a job.

A group of high school student artists from NYC are showing their work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art as part of the museum’s Scholastic Art & Writing Awards: New York City Regional Exhibition.

A new emergency grant for artists with disabilities will provide $1,000 cash grants to qualified applicants in NYC who have experienced hardship during the COVID-19 crisis.

A new, 3,500-square-foot exhibition space for the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation in Santa Fe, New Mexico, will be dedicated to virtual and new media art.

Germany has announced plans to return the Benin Bronzes in its museums to Nigeria starting next year. The artifacts were looted by British soldiers in the 1890s.

The Cuban dissident artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara was forcibly hospitalized by government officials in Havana on the seventh day of his hunger and thirst strike protesting state harassment of artists.

A rock featuring ancient Indigenous petroglyphs in Utah was defaced by an unknown vandal, who etched the racist phrase “white power” and other obscenities on the famous “Birthing Rock” boulder in Moab.