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.
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.