The Texas museum is the first major US institution to do so since closures due to the Covid-19 pandemic in March. New safety measures will include the compulsory wearing of masks and the taking of visitors’ temperatures at the entrance, and no food or drink will be allowed inside the building. The San Antonio Museum of Art will reopen next week. In New York, however, as the Art Newspaper reports, the Metropolitan Museum of Art will not reopen before August at the earliest, and has cancelled all tours, talks and events through to the end of the year.
Palestinian art is travelling far beyond the places where it was created. From Ramallah to Dubai, and onward to collectors across Europe, the United States and beyond, a new generation of Palestinian artists is finding an increasingly international audience — while continuing to negotiate questions of memory, identity, displacement and belonging.