Longing for museums, and how artist David Hockney is spending his pandemic days. Join him.
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Empty museums and lonely, would-be museum goers. In many places, including our own Upper Valley, museums have been shuttered for almost a year due to COVID-19. Picture what this has meant for the scheduled blockbuster and other exhibitions that normally draw scads of viewers. Recently, French museums have petitioned their government to allow them to reopen even if on a restricted basis. The art is there, they argue, and of course the guards are there; all that is missing are viewers. Some exhibitions—most notably one featuring the works of Matisse at Paris’s Centre Pompidou—have come and gone, virtually unseen, invisible. The Matisse amassed a mere 17,000 visitors before it shut down last year. Normally millions of tourists and Parisians would have crowded the museum.
Longing for museums, and how artist David Hockney is spending his pandemic days. Join him.
Longing for museums, and how artist David…
Longing for museums, and how artist David Hockney is spending his pandemic days. Join him.
Empty museums and lonely, would-be museum goers. In many places, including our own Upper Valley, museums have been shuttered for almost a year due to COVID-19. Picture what this has meant for the scheduled blockbuster and other exhibitions that normally draw scads of viewers. Recently, French museums have petitioned their government to allow them to reopen even if on a restricted basis. The art is there, they argue, and of course the guards are there; all that is missing are viewers. Some exhibitions—most notably one featuring the works of Matisse at Paris’s Centre Pompidou—have come and gone, virtually unseen, invisible. The Matisse amassed a mere 17,000 visitors before it shut down last year. Normally millions of tourists and Parisians would have crowded the museum.