by The Editors Exterior view of the National Gallery, London. Image via Facebook. While Covid-19 continues to hold its influence, causing closures and re-closures with new regional spikes in infected cases, many art institutions have released plans for 2021. Here is a roundup of recent announcements and what’s to come. Galleries and Museums in Europe Shutter Amid Another Wave Commercial art galleries are the latest to close in Germany due to stricter lockdown measures, effective from December 16 until at least the second week of January 2021. Museums, theaters, and other cultural venues that were already shuttered remain closed. On the same day, galleries and museums in London closed indefinitely, only two weeks after they reopened, as the British capital moved into its highest tier of Covid-19 restrictions. Museums in the Netherlands shuttered on December 15, and at the moment are expected to reopen on January 19, 2021. Meanwhile, the ongoing lockdown in France has been extended to at least January 7, 2021, affecting museums and other art spaces, while the country was alerted to French president Emmanuel Macron’s positive Covid-19 test on December 17.