A number of independent museums in the UK have expressed concerns that they may not be able to reopen after the coronavirus pandemic has passed. The Creswell Heritage Trust and the National Videogame Museum, as well as other institutions, have launched appeals to avoid insolvency.
I visited Laila Muraywid’s studio in Paris, it is the kind of place that rearranges your inner geography. A Syrian artist working between painting and sculpture, she creates objects that feel at once intimate yet cosmic, like relics from ancient times that pulse with contemporary pain and splendour.