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The article offers the impact of coronavirus pandemic as closing of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) due to that several art educators has fired. It focuses on challenges for cultural centers as it facing an enormous crisis and made cuts of all kinds, affecting thousands of people; also focuses on views of MoMA's director, Glenn Lowry, who deeply concerned about the abrupt dismissal of the educators.

The article reviews the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) located in New York, which is the first institution in North America devoted to avant-garde modern art.

The article offers information on Thomas Campbell and his tenure as the director of Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met) in New York, discussing the appointment of Campbell as the director of Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF), and the appointment of FAMSF's Max Hollein as director of Met.

The article offers information on the Arts and Humanities Omnibus Amendment Act proposed by Muriel Bowser, mayor of Washington, D.C., to turn the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities (DCCAH) into an advisory body from a leading arts funder, discussing the grants awarded by DCCAH.

The article offers information on the Wagency digital platform of the group Wage (Working Artists and the Greater Economy) which aims to make sure that artists get better payment for their work, discussing the views of Lise Soskolne, a member of Wage, on it.

The article offers information on the 50 State Initiative of the artist and activist organisation For Freedoms in the U.S. to produce public art programmes focusing on civic engagement leading up to the midterm elections in the U.S. on November 6, 2018, discussing the institutions that have joined.

The article focuses on a project by artist and academic Andrea Fraser against Sackler family and pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma, criticizing the development of the painkiller OxyContin, which has played a role in the opioid abuse crises in the U.S., and the museums supporting Sackler family.

The article offers information on the legal dispute over the estate of artist Robert Indiana, discussing the lawsuit filed by Morgan Art Foundation (MAF), Indiana's representative since 1990, against Jamie Thomas, a long-time assistant of the artist, and art publisher Michael McKenzie.

The article talks about the actions that museums should take when artists are accused of sexual abuse, discussing the sexual misconduct allegations against photographer Nobuyoshi Araki when an exhibition of his works was being curated at the Museum of Sex in New York and the museum's response to it.

The article reviews the exhibitions "Art in the age of the Internet: 1989 to today," at the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston until May 20, 2018 and "I was raised on the Internet" at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago from June 23 to October 14, 2018.

The article discusses the political responsibility of museums, citing resignation of former director of the Queens Museum in New York, Laura Raicovich, and mentions that the incident was prompted by her handling of an Israel-sponsored event.