The COVID-19 pandemic has been devastating for the cultural sector and museums, many of which have closed or suspended their local and international programs, including travelling exhibitions and international loans. In response to the pandemic, museums are jumping into the digital ocean of online communications, trying to compensate for the loss […]

The coronavirus pandemic poses a huge global challenge to auction houses large and small, but those that have embraced technology could prosper as nervous investors seek a safe haven, according to experts.

Museums shut down during the Coronavirus lockdown are inching to towards reopening, with institutions across Europe and North America looking to welcome visitors again in May. But with the Coronavirus crisis ongoing, museums have to walk a careful line balancing public safety with giving the public access to culture, art […]

The only telltale signs that things are not quite normal are the empty office buildings, sports grounds and car parks en route, and the fact that everyone on the train is seated as far apart as possible and wearing a mask: there’s a red polka dot one; a few crisp […]

With the doors to the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) shut, the institution’s leadership has been rethinking what it means to serve the community, creatively, now and into the future. In New Orleans, where about one-third of the population doesn’t have access to the internet—so they can’t log in […]

As museums and galleries around the country prepare to reopen in coming weeks and months, most are still puzzling out how to protect employees and visitors from the coronavirus.

Most of Italy’s nearly 4,000 museums are set to reopen this month, several weeks after they closed at the start of the national coronavirus lockdown on March 10. But for most tourists, seeing some of the world’s greatest cultural treasures will require a virtual tour.

For most of us, “a day at the museum” calls to mind a carefree Saturday or a vacation in our favorite city. But for Melissa Marra-Alvarez and Elizabeth Way, hours spent at the museum are all in a day’s work — work that has changed significantly in a time of lockdown.

Aside from museums and gallery spaces, do-it-yourself online art exhibitions have been cropping up around the world. For instance, in Italy, curator Giada Pellicari launched #ArtistsinQuarantine, an initiative that combats the economic pause in a region that has seen one of the longest runs of closures from the pandemic, with institutions […]

For several years now, Google has provided a way for people to visit museums virtually, capturing some of the exploratory spontaneity with the indoor equivalent of Street View. As the pandemic runs its course, and more people spend more of their time in some kind of quarantine, Google Arts & Culture will […]