Tag: Covid-19
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Yuko Hasegawa – interview: ‘We built Olafur Eliasson’s exhibition without the artist’
The artistic director at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo was preparing a solo exhibition of Eliasson’s work when the museum shut because of Covid-19. She explains how a printed catalogue and an online talk saved the day
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Matthew Burrows – interview: ‘I think as an artist and I make as a painter’
The artist talks about his strategies for thinking about painting, how his long-distance running is integral to his work, and the unexpectedly huge success of his #ArtistSupportPledge idea
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David Downes – interview: ‘Through the adversity, I thought this is something I’ve got to get down on paper’
The artist talks about his project of documenting the Covid-19 pandemic and how his autism feeds into his work
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Mark Titchner – interview: ‘Language is how we relate to the world, there’s no separation’
His text-based work Please Believe These Days Will Pass has formed a key part of the UK’s early lockdown landscape. Here, he talks about his process and the power of language – its ambiguity as well as our collective understanding…
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Digital and networked art in lockdown: how can we be creative in new ways?
Unable to open to the public, museums and galleries have been quick to offer virtual tours and exhibitions, but often the viewer is left feeling something is missing. Digital art and, in particular, art made to be viewed onscreen could…
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Robert Fitzmaurice – interview: ‘I started to truncate the figure a lot more, take liberties with it, and add extra limbs’
The artist talks about the work in his latest show, now postponed, his interests and influences – and how he is coping with lockdown
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The effects of Covid-19 on Italian museums: interviews with the directors of the Accademia Carrara, the Uffizi and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection
As Italy tentatively enters a less restrictive phase of Europe’s longest lockdown, the leaders of three prominent art institutions consider the immediate effects and longer-term implications of a global calamity
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The impact of Covid-19 on art critics
This essay, comprising conversations with UK-based critics looks at the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on their work and prospects
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The impact of Covid-19 on artists, part 5: the long-term outlook and the growth in online offerings
In the final instalment of this five-part essay, comprising conversations with artists around the world, we look at the possible long-term effects of the Covid-19 crisis on the art world and the rise in online offerings
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The impact of Covid-19 on artists, part 4: artistic responses to the coronavirus and the prescient zeitgeist
In the fourth instalment of this five-part essay, comprising conversations with artists around the world, we look at the work artists have made in response to the coronavirus, and the prescient zeitgeist
