After a relationship with anthropologist Lauren Leve, Graeber married artist Nika Dubrovsky in 2019. The two collaborated on a series of books, workshops, and conversations called Anthropology for Kids'' and on the Museum of Care, a shared space for communication and social interactions nourishing values of solidarity, care, and reciprocity. According to David Graeber website, “The main goal of the Museum of Care is to produce and maintain social relationships.” The concept “museum of care” was coined by Graeber and Dubrovsky in their article “The Museum of Care: imagining the world after the pandemic”, originally published in “Arts Of The Working Class” in April 2020. In the article, Graeber and Dubrovsky imagine a post-pandemic future, where vast surfaces of office spaces and conservative institutions are turned into “free city universities, social centers and hotels for those in need of shelter”. “We could call them ‘Museums of Care' - precisely because they are spaces that do not celebrate production of any sort but rather provide the space and means for the creation of social relationships and the imagining of entirely new forms of social relations.” Death Graeber died suddenly from necrotic pancreatitis on September 2, 2020 while on vacation with his wife and friends in Venice. Graeber died during the COVID-19 pandemic and instead of a funeral, his family organized an "Intergalactic Memorial Carnival" of livestreamed events that took place in October 2020. His wife, Dubrovsky, attributed the pancreatitis to COVID-19, saying they both had strange symptoms for months beforehand, and she said there was a connection between COVID-19 and pancreatitis. Selected publications References Further reading External links 1961 births 2020 deaths Academics of Goldsmiths, University of London Academics of the London School of Economics Activists from New York City American anarchists American anthropologists American anti-capitalists American expatriates in the United Kingdom American male non-fiction writers American political writers Anarchist economics Anarchist theorists Anti-corporate activists Economic anthropologists Historians of anarchism Industrial Workers of the World members Jewish anarchists Jewish philosophers Jewish American writers Phillips Academy alumni State University of New York at Purchase alumni University of Chicago alumni World historians Writers from New York City Yale University faculty Critics of work and the work ethic Fulbright alumni