Although the immediate impact of the covid-19 pandemic on the world’s museums and art galleries is obvious – lockdown closures, the collapse of revenue streams and large-scale redundancies, especially among commercial and other support staff – the strategies that institutions will have to develop to deal with the longterm consequences of these events
Certain figures have made it hard to write the history of twentieth-century art and its ongoing legacy without them. Pablo Picasso, Piet Mondrian, Henri Matisse, Salvador Dalí and Jackson Pollock instantly spring to mind. Persuasive new attitudes to gender, sexuality and politics or innovative media count as having also been introduced by somewhat lesser