Here's how the Venice art world is reacting to Coronavirus.
—what’s going on in Venice, a city that already suffered a substantial blow with exceptionally high tidal flooding in November, is less clear.
Carnevale ended two days early, as costumed revelers mingled in piazzas next to policemen in surgical masks. And while the rate of infection rose in towns in the Veneto and Lombardy regions, many of the city’s art institutions—including the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, the civic museums, and some private galleries—shut down based on government recommendations.
This morning, the Instagram account for the Gallerie dell'Accademia posted a story announcing that the museum would be open again on March 3rd: “WE ARE WAITING FOR YOU” it read, under a pair of dancing hearts against a rainbow background. , a notice on the museum’s website states that “the museum will allow visitors to enter in stages or else implement measures in order to avoid large gatherings of people who must respect the distance of at least one meter between one another.
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