| Mask Tasks: How Texas Tinterow Pulled Off the Early Reopening of Museum of Fine Arts, Houston As New York City’s major museums prepare to reopen, the experience of the the first major U.S. art museum out of the re-starting gate — the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, which intrepidly invited its public back three months ago — is an object lesson on how it might (or might not) work for others. – Lee Rosenbaum
Boogie-man Helfer bounces back from covid-depression “People have been saying to me, ‘Oh, I’m so sorry you had to go through that!’ Well I’m not sorry — I think it’s the best thing that could have happened to me, considering where I am now. I feel reborn. Everything seems fresh to me. Now, how are things with you?” – Howard Mandel
Consciousness Raised, Budgets Cut: Irreconcilable Imperatives at Metropolitan (& other museums) I have to hand it to Holland Cotter: For better or worse, the NY Times‘ co-chief art critic was right. I was wrong. – Lee Rosenbaum
A New Way to Look at Shakespeare’s Sonnets Instead of reading the sonnets in the numbered sequence of the 1609 quarto, which is the usual way, they examine them in what they believe was their order of composition. This puts a special focus on the considerable tinkering that went into them. – Jan Herman
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