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From the art market to museums, here are our top stories from a year in lockdown.
March 16, 2021
People wearing protective face masks outside the Louvre in Paris. Photo by Stephane Cardinale - Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images.
The past year has been a whirlwind: wildfires raged in California, Donald Trump was impeached for a second time, protests against police violence erupted around the world, and an unheard of virus swept the planet, bringing life, as we knew it, to a standstill.
As we look back on the one-year mark of the World Health Organization’s declaration of the coronavirus pandemic, we’ve compiled our 2020–21 COVID-19-related coverage, from its effects on the art market and the museum world, to the ways in which we found some levity.
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Our critic goes on a decluttering spree of her Instagram feed and finds some delightful surprises.
The stars of flamenco and Spanish dance performing at the Prado Museum last September to celebrate World Tourism Day.Credit.Museo Nacional del Prado
By Martha Schwendener
March 3, 2021
I am on a campaign to unfollow. In the same way waistlines expanded during the pandemic from overindulging on comfort foods, my Instagram account became bloated. Some of the accounts I followed provided need-to-know coverage of Covid-19, protests, elections and insurrections. Recently, however, I’ve been on a decluttering spree.
Art Handler magazine founder Clynton Lowry. Photo by Maayan Strauss
The last two months of 2019 I began working part-time at [New York gallery] Salon 94. They hired me to be their “freelance art handler” every Thursday and Friday. I was doing condition reports in a tiny storage space inside an art warehouse near the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. I worked there right up until the stay-at-home order.
The warehouse had a crew of guys who were in a metal band who the owner had assigned to more or less run the place. They looked like some Bushwick version of
Duck Dynasty. They perfected that art-handler aura of barely visible disdain for the artwork and obsessive focus on the task. It was just a means to an end, enough money for beer and rent and maybe gas money to go on tour, which was the same for me, except I had no car, no band, and no plans of going anywhere.