A complete guide to British museums and galleries reopening
Museums, galleries and other art spaces have started to reopen. Where can you go, and what can you see?
13 May 2021 • 6:12pm
Naum Gabo s Constructed Head No.2 is one of the artworks reopening at Tate St Ives
Credit: Ben Birchall/PA Wire
Art is back. During lockdown, of course, it never truly left. But the joys of a solo mooch around a gallery, or a family outing, were put on hold.
But now, from May 1 in some parts of the UK, and 17 May in England, the nation s galleries and art museums can welcome visitors again at last. Some smaller commercial galleries have already reopened, as they’re classed as “non-essential retail” and were thus able to welcome visitors (and customers) back, as other shops were, from April 12.
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Spokeswoman Tracy Jones said: “Drawing on the rich history of the house and its occupants, this June to September’s outdoor programme brings Britain’s leading artists, writers and thinkers on art, film, literature, music and society to Sussex.
“Featuring famous writers Antonia Fraser, Jeanette Winterson and John Cooper Clarke, renowned fashion editor Alexandra Shulman, artist Jeremy Deller and Hollywood actor Helena Bonham-Carter, Charleston’s wide-ranging summer programme, on a new outdoor stage designed by Pup Architects, explores such diverse themes as 19th-century women’s rights, artificial intelligence (AI) and economist John Maynard Keynes as you have never seen him before.
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Nina Hamnett’s The Landlady (1918). The artist said she wanted to paint “psychological portraits” that “represent accurately the spirit of the age” Photo: © Bridgeman Images
Despite Nina Hamnett’s best efforts to buck convention, the story of this Queen of Bohemia fits the mould of many other Modernist women artists. She painted and had solo exhibitions, was celebrated by critics and collectors, then died and vanished. Hamnett was forgotten soon after her death in 1956, with most of her paintings hidden from public view in the homes of her patrons’ descendants.
Where her legacy veers from this trope of the woman artist is that she was immortalised by male peers such as Walter Sickert and Roger Fry, so that if you have heard of her at all, it is likely as a model. Or you may know her from her bestselling autobiographies, in which she described enlivening the parties of her Bloomsbury Group or Parisian friends.
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