It's Been Just Over a Year Since the Pandemic Swept the Worl

From the art market to museums, here are our top stories from a year in lockdown.
March 16, 2021
People wearing protective face masks outside the Louvre in Paris. Photo by Stephane Cardinale - Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images.
The past year has been a whirlwind: wildfires raged in California, Donald Trump was impeached for a second time, protests against police violence erupted around the world, and an unheard of virus swept the planet, bringing life, as we knew it, to a standstill.
As we look back on the one-year mark of the World Health Organization’s declaration of the coronavirus pandemic, we’ve compiled our 2020–21 COVID-19-related coverage, from its effects on the art market and the museum world, to the ways in which we found some levity.

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