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What’s next for art: a boom in drawing, experts fight back – and a reborn party scene? In the first of our series examining the future of culture post-Covid, our chief art critic looks at the prospects for galleries and artists 8 March 2021 • 5:00am Up close: Visitors at the National Gallery in London Credit: NurPhoto Another three months? Really? The Government’s announcement that museums cannot open before May 17 – long after commercial galleries and even gyms have resumed operations – is crushingly disappointing. Last summer proved that they can function safely. And, for many, ...

Polly Brannan, the newly appointed artistic director of Open School East Open School East The Art Newspaper has charted the development of the Open School East initiative since its genesis in 2013 by a visionary group including Sarah McCrory, director of Goldsmiths CCA, and Sam Thorne, director of Nottingham Contemporary. The school—which offers an open-to-all study programme for emerging artists, charges no tuition fees and sets no age limit—was initially based in Hackney, east London, but moved to Margate on the UK south coast in 2017. Its latest high-profile signing...