Reopening the art world during COVID

Reopening the art world during COVID

Reopening the art world during COVID

The pandemic has increased the financial pressures on museums and cultural organizations, which face perhaps their greatest crisis ever. Correspondent Serena Altschul examines how New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Natural History Museum of Utah, and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. are reopening, and why many museums may be forced to close permanently because of the coronavirus.