UK Museums Set To Re-open From 17 May
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has provisionally announced that museums could open their doors to the public from 17 May. This four-step plan is part of a roadmap to ease restrictions initiated during the Covid19 pandemic. The Prime Minister announced the plan would go ahead conditionally if new infections were to remain low.
Under the latest guidelines, commercial galleries could be permitted to open from 12 April under new safety measures. Galleries are considered non-essential retail outlets.
Official guidance for the Government sets out that “indoor entertainment, including museums, cinemas and some theatres would be able to open with social distancing in place but has ruled out a vaccine passport for the time being.
The Courtauld art gallery has been gifted works by Paul Cezanne, Wassily Kandinsky and Cy Twombly in a multimillion-pound contribution which will transform its collection.
The 25 drawings, assembled by late collector Howard Karshan, have been offered by his wife, the artist Linda Karshan, and mark one of the most significant gifts of art to The Courtauld in a generation, the gallery has said.
Howard Karshan in 2014 (Daniel Blau)
They include watercolours by Cezanne and finger drawings in ink by Louis Soutter, as well as abstract compositions by Henri Michaux whilst experimenting with Mescalin.
The gift, which also includes works by Georg Baselitz, Joseph Beuys, Otto Dix, Jean Dubuffet, Sam Francis, Alberto Giacometti, Philip Guston, Paul Klee, Willem de Kooning, Gerhard Richter and Wayne Thiebaud, will join the gallery’s current collection of 7,000 drawings.
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