A complete guide to British museums and galleries reopening
Museums, galleries and other art spaces have started to reopen. Where can you go, and what can you see?
13 May 2021 • 6:12pm
Naum Gabo s Constructed Head No.2 is one of the artworks reopening at Tate St Ives
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Art is back. During lockdown, of course, it never truly left. But the joys of a solo mooch around a gallery, or a family outing, were put on hold.
But now, from May 1 in some parts of the UK, and 17 May in England, the nation s galleries and art museums can welcome visitors again at last. Some smaller commercial galleries have already reopened, as they’re classed as “non-essential retail” and were thus able to welcome visitors (and customers) back, as other shops were, from April 12.
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Idris Khan and Annie Morris. Image courtesy of the artists.
What happens when two artists spend every day of a year living together, working together, maybe raising children together and they can hardly leave the house? You might expect tensions to be running high (and you’re not wrong! See: homeschooling), but the past year of quarantine has also proved transformative to a few artist couples.
With Valentine’s Day coming up, we spoke to Shara Hughes and Austin Eddy, Becky Suss and Micah Danges, and Idris Khan and Annie Morris three romantic partners who also happen to be artists to find out how the past year has strengthened their relationships. Read on to see who shared newfound pleasures, mixed fire-escape cocktails, and even spent time refurbishing an impulsively acquired rustic cottage in the countryside.
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While the Western art market is still in recovery mode, the Asian market is forging ahead. Frantic bidding in Hong Kong in December saw new records set at Phillips and at Christie’s for young artists, from Salman Toor, Nicolas Party, Amoako Boafo, Shara Hughes, Dana Schutz and (predictably) the late Matthew Wong, as well as strong prices for older names such as Yayoi Kusama, Yoshitomo Nara and Bernard Frize.