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Art behind locked doors: How galleries continue to suffer during COVID-19
Museums around the world are struggling to cope under COVID-19 lockdowns. While some have turned to online exhibits, others are doubting whether they can survive.
Located near Hamburg s famed but now shuttered fish market, the Hamburger Kunsthalle museum is in lockdown yet its walls are freshly adorned with paintings by Italian master Giorgio de Chirico (1888 to 1978). His dreamlike cityscapes painted between 1909-1919 were a forerunner to surrealism, and can now be enjoyed via a virtual online tour. The exhibition opening was also live streamed to the public.
De Chirico is the painter of empty spaces, the painter of nightmares in the midst of society, said Kunsthalle museum director Alexander Klar at the opening of the Magical Reality exhibition.