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Live music venues such as The Teragram Ballroom in Los Angeles were among the first businesses to close during the pandemic. The Shuttered Venue Operators Grant was supposed to be a lifeline for owners.

Help Was On The Way For Shuttered Venues. Then The Website Crashed

Andrew Limbong

The Small Business Administration launched an application portal for its $16 billion relief program for shuttered venues yesterday, but technical problems prompted deactivation for repair.

New York City's museums and cultural institutions were temporarily shuttered by the pandemic and kept closed even as the state entered Phase 4 in July.

Health

New York City's Museums To Reopen As State's COVID-19 Numbers Continue To Tick Down

Jason Slotkin

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Friday that the city's cultural institutions will be able to reopen later this month. Less than 1% of COVID-19 tests in the state have been coming back positive.

The Annenberg Space for Photography closed permanently in June. In a survey of museum directors, 33% said there was either a "significant risk" of closing permanently or that they didn't know if their institutions would survive.

Arts & Culture

One-Third Of U.S. Museums May Not Survive The Year, Survey Finds

Neda Ulaby

In a survey of more than 750 museum directors, 33% of them said there was either a "significant risk" of closing permanently by next fall or that they didn't know if their institutions would survive.

Local News

'Museum Of The Bible' Puts Spotlight On Stolen Antiquities

The Hobby Lobby family’s “Museum of the Bible” opens in Washington with fanfare and controversy over stolen antiquities. We take a look at the issue of…

Aiden Hunter, 9, looks at a map of Europe to learn more about where the Holocaust took place. The children's exhibit at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., uses the fictional story of a boy named Daniel to teach children about the Holocaust.

Education

At These Museums, Tragedy Is A History Lesson

Kendra Yoshinaga

How do you explain the toughest parts of history to children? We asked leaders from memorial museums around the U.S. to help us understand the best way to do so.