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Last modified on Tue 23 Feb 2021 15.06 EST Museum and gallery leaders in England have expressed anger, disappointment and bafflement at why commercial art galleries – which count as non-essential shops – can open five weeks before them. “It is just nuts,” said Rebecca Salter, the president of the Royal Academy of Arts which, like other public galleries, has been told it can reopen no sooner than 17 May. Shops, meanwhile, can open on 12 April. Salter said it meant people would not be able to come to see the RA’s Tracey Emin exhibition but would be able to go to see works by Emin on d...

Virtual: the new reality London Art Fair again points the way for the new year but, as John Evans reports, this time it’s different 21 January, 2021 — By John Evans John Craxton, Head of a Young Man, c1947-1948, oil on panel, 44 x 30cm, courtesy Osborne Samuel GALLERISTS, collectors, and all art enthusiasts should by now be enjoying the 33rd edition of London Art Fair at the Design Centre in Islington this week. The pandemic, however, has pushed this annual opener for the art-loving community into a virtual sphere, which kicked off on Wednesday and will run through the rest of Janua...