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Museums, galleries and other art spaces have started to reopen. Where can you go, and what can you see?

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. So...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Caption: Compton Verney's homepage for the Cranach exhibition which opened in March 2020 view more  Credit: Credit: Compton Verney When Museums closed their doors in March 2020 for the first COVID-19 lockdown in the UK a majority moved their activities online to keep their audiences interested. Researchers from WMG, University of Warwick have worked with OUMNH, to analyse the success of the exhibitions, and say the way Museums operate will change forever.Caption: Compton Verney's homepage for the Cranach exhibition which opened in March 2020 Credit: Compton Verney T...

Van Gogh’s Olive Grove (July 1889), Olive Trees (June 1889) and Olive Trees (June 1889) Courtesy of Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo (photo: Rik Klein Gotink); Museum of Modern Art, New York (license: SCALA/Art Resource); and Minneapolis Institute of Art (William Hood Dunwoody Fund, 51.7) The first exhibition to explore Vincent’s olive groves now has new dates. Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum was originally to have presented the show this summer, but it has been delayed because of Covid-19. Van Gogh and the Olive Groves will instead start at the Dallas Museum of Art (17...

Christie’s is to auction Van Gogh’s Le Pont de Trinquetaille (The Trinquetaille Bridge) in New York on 13 May, with an estimate of $25m to $35m. This will be a rare opportunity to acquire one of the artist’s Arles pictures, his most sought-after period by collectors. Painted in June 1888, it depicts the road bridge to the suburb of Trinquetaille, across the river from Arles. Van Gogh set up his easel on the quayside, just a few minutes’ walk from the Yellow House, the home that he would later share with Paul Gauguin. The riverside view was not far from where three months afterwards...