A WPA mural at the Cohen Building, Washington, D.C. Photo: Carol M. HIghsmith/Buyenlarge/Getty Images.
Welcome to the Art Angle, a podcast from Artnet News that delves into the places where the art world meets the real world, bringing each week’s biggest story down to earth. Join host Andrew Goldstein every week for an in-depth look at what matters most in museums, the art market, and much more, with input from our own writers and editors, as well as artists, curators, and other top experts in the field.
Shockingly enough, we are now coming up on the one-year anniversary of the lockdown of the United States. At this point last year, a creeping dread had begun to blanket the globe. And then, in March, it happened: COVID hit the East Coast and fanned out across the country, and within weeks whole areas of society were slammed shut, like windows during a hurricane.