The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, which in April laid off 135 of its on-call workers, has now made a further 55 redundancies across various departments (there were around 500 members of staff before the first wave of job cuts). Artnet reports that SFMoMA is projecting a deficit of $18 million for the financial year of 2021, on top of a projected $7 million deficit for 2020. An anonymous group of museum employees has written an open letter to the leadership asking it to reconsider its decision.
Contemporary art in Saudi Arabia continues to push the boundaries of storytelling and spirituality, and the latest exhibition by Sultan bin Fahad offers a thoughtful reflection on the relationship between memory, belief, and physical space.