Thanks to the pandemic, 2022 has stepped nervously into history. As we go to press, museums in Denmark have just reopened, but those in the Netherlands remain closed; the museums of Dresden, in common with all of Saxony, are still shut. In France, Italy and the United Kingdom, museums remain open, albeit with constraints, such as having to book visits or produce vaccination certificates.

2021 saw the opening at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), of two related initiatives: the Center for Netherlandish Art (CNA), the first resource of its kind in the United States, and a suite of newly installed corridors and galleries for Dutch and Flemish art. Both were made possible through the generosity of two collector couples, Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo and Susan and Matthew Weatherbie.