Want to See Michelangelo Again? The Vatican Museums Are Reopening Next Week
artnet news - What will reopening look like for the Vatican Museums, which have been closed since March 9? Mandatory face masks, temperature checks at...
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After Initially Hoping to Stick to Its September Opening, EXPO Chicago Has Been Postponed Until April 2021
artnet news - Another domino has fallen in the art industry’s international fair schedule, as the ninth edition of EXPO Chicago has been postponed fro...
“Rather than attempt to reconcile museums’ contradictions, we should start again”
dezeen - In late summer 1939, in anticipation of the imminent start of the second world war, all the paintings in London's National Gallery were taken...
Two Dozen Mayors From Across the US Are Urging Congress to Send Urgently Needed Funding for the Arts in Its Next Relief Package
Artnews - Mayors from 22 cities across the country, including those from New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, sent a letter to congress this week...
Christina Quarles Paints the Complicated, Intimate Moments When We Feel like Ourselves
artsy - You can count all the hands and feet in Christina Quarles’s paintings of harlequin figures, but follow the arc of each long limb, and all sen...
Why Imogen Cunningham’s Light-Filled Photographs Are So Soothing Right Now
artsy - Lately I’ve been having a hard time looking at photographs. But as a writer who often covers photography, it is nearly impossible for me to ta...
shigeru ban’s paper partition system used to shelter homeless ‘net cafe refugees’
design boom - a martial arts center in yokohama, japan, has been converted into a shelter for homeless ‘net cafe refugees’ following the closure of th...
‘We are all Surrealists now’: how life with Leonora Carrington prepared me for coronavirus lockdown
The Art Newspaper - Joanna Moorhead, the biographer and relative of the rediscovered Surrealist woman artist, talks about learning to adventure creati...
A Photo Project Helps Mitigate Patient Loneliness During COVID-19 Pandemic
Hyperallergic - Mary Beth Heffernan came up with the PPE Portrait Project during the Ebola outbreak and found that patients felt more connected to the...
Will Online Viewing Rooms Increase Price Transparency at Galleries?
Artsy - As I’ve reported on art fairs over the past few years, I’ve become accustomed to a degree of caginess about pricing. Some gallerists decline t...