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Gallery Weekend Beijing Drew Nearly 200,000 In-Person Visitors Despite a Regional Audience and Enduring Travel Restrictions Dealers saw robust attendance and encouraging signs for the future of in-person art events. Installation view of BANK MABSOCIETY at the Visitor section of Gallery Weekend Beijing. After the turmoil that stalled much of the 2020 art calendar, Gallery Weekend Beijing marks one of the first signs of a return to interacting with art in real life—and so far there’s been robust demand. Originally scheduled for March, the fifth-annual edition of the event was postponed to M...

Despite the global pandemic, Gallery Weekend began in Berlin on Saturday. It usually attracts international art lovers, collectors and curators from around the world but with international travel restrictions it is certainly less cosmopolitan this year. Until 2 May, almost 50 participating galleries across Berlin open their doors to visitors who have an appointment and a negative COVID-19 test result that is less than 24 hours old. Most galleries will keep their exhibitions for up to six weeks, to allow more potential art buyers to book an individual time slot. Owner of Dittrich & Schlechtri...

The use of masks is decreasing across Beijing galleries Courtesy of Gallery Weekend Beijing Gallery hopping was go last weekend in China's capital city with the fifth edition of Gallery Weekend Beijing (GWBJ, 22 April to 2 May), featuring 30 local galleries and museums as well hosting popups by eight visiting galleries from other cities. The event, kicking off with three days of VIP programmes and parties, was moved from its usual March dates after several small outbreaks of Covid-19 in the city last winter. "Moving it from March meant double the work for us, we had to d...

German Culture Minister Monika Grütters opening the Yayoi Kusama exhibition at the Gropius Bau museum in Berlin © Luca Girardini / Gropius Bau An “emergency brake” law passed by the German parliament this week to counteract the third wave of the coronavirus pandemic has forced museums in many parts of the country to close. It may also disrupt Berlin shows such as a major Yayoi Kusama retrospective at the Martin Gropius Bau and the annual Gallery Weekend. Museums in the eastern cities of Chemnitz, Dresden, Leipzig and Halle are forced to close under the new rules,...