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Exterior view of the National Gallery, London. Image via Facebook.
While Covid-19 continues to hold its influence, causing closures and re-closures with new regional spikes in infected cases, many art institutions have released plans for 2021. Here is a roundup of recent announcements and what’s to come.
Galleries and Museums in Europe Shutter Amid Another Wave
Commercial art galleries are the latest to close in Germany due to stricter lockdown measures, effective from December 16 until at least the second week of January 2021. Museums, theaters, and other cultural venues that were already shuttered remain closed. On the same day, galleries and museums in London closed indefinitely, only two weeks after they reopened, as the British capital moved into its highest tier of Covid-19 restrictions. Museums in the Netherlands shuttered on December 15, and at the moment are expected to reopen on January 19, 2021. Meanwhile, the ongoing lockdown in France has been extend
Philip Tinari to Curate Inaugural Saudi Arabian Biennial
Philip Tinari, director and curator of Beijing’s UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, has been named as the curator of the inaugural Ad-Diriyah Biennale, to take place in 2021. The event is Saudi Arabia’s first international contemporary art biennial, and is expected to be divided into six sections featuring a total of more than seventy Saudi and international artists.
Established by Saudi Arabia’s newly formed Ministry of Culture and organized by its subsidiear Thunaiyat Ad-Diriyah Foundation, which is charged with establishing two recurring art festivals. The second of these which will occur alternately with the Ad-Diriyah Biennale, is the Islamic Biennale, debuting in 2022 and focusing on Islamic art.
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