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Museums in the UK are preparing for their de-escalation. Some of the English capital's reference centers have already announced their reopening, while others such as the British Museum or the Natural History Museum remain cautious and will not receive visitors until at least September. Others, such as the National Portrait Gallery, according to information on their website, will not do so until 2023. Those who begin their new post-covid journey do so under the sanitary and hygienic measures established by Boris Johnson's government: social distancing, mandatory use of masks, sanitation stations, reduced capacity and new one-way roads are some of them.
The first visit takes us to the National Gallery, a museum directed by Gabriele Finaldi that announced its opening on the 8th, after 111 days closed. Located in the heart of Trafalgar Square, the art gallery, which can only be accessed by purchasing tickets in advance, will be open every day from 11am to 4pm, while on Fridays it will be open until 9pm. PM. Just like the Prado Museum, for the visit they changed their itinerary and proposed three possible routes: one of them guides the visitor through some of the first works in the collection by artists such as Botticelli, Leonardo, Raphael or Memling. The second takes a journey from Venice to the interior of England through works by Bronzino, Canaletto, Holbein, Monet, Seurat, Turner and Van Gogh. And the last one covers some candlelit scenes by painters like Caravaggio, Rubens, Velázquez, Vermeer or Rembrandt.
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Another option, and it will certainly be the one that many will choose, is the temporary Titian: love, desire, death which lasts until January 17th, an exhibition in which the master's sensual interpretation of classic myths about love, temptation and punishment is offered. In the works we see moments of drama, fatal encounters, kidnappings. Titian masterfully uses the brush to capture flesh, sumptuous fabrics, water and atmospheric landscapes. “We want to be part of the country's recovery story and opening the doors and letting the public see our inspiring works again is a contribution to the process”, says its director, Finaldi.
The next one to open will be Royal Academy of Arts who will do so on the 9th for friends of the museum and on the 16th for the general public. Opening hours will currently be reduced so that rooms will be open from Thursday to Sunday from 11am to 4pm. As at the National Gallery, tickets must be reserved before the visit, the use of a mask will be mandatory and the capacity will be reduced. At the moment it can only be seen Piccaso and paper, an exhibition composed of works on paper, a material that Picasso used both as a tool for exploring ideas and as a medium that provided him with infinite possibilities. In it you can understand the creative process of the Malaga artist thanks to the studies he carried out for the guernica and the sketches of some of his masterpieces, such as The Ladies of Avignon.
On the 13th it will be the barbican which will resume its programming with Masculinities. Liberation through Photography, an exhibition that investigates how masculinity has been coded, interpreted and socially constructed from 1960 to the present through the photographs of more than 50 artists including Laurie Anderson, Sunil Gupta, Rotimi Fani-Kayode and Catherine Opie. As we can read in the exhibition catalogue, “in Europe and North America, the characteristics and power dynamics of the dominant male figure, historically defined by physical size and strength, assertiveness and aggressiveness, although still dominant today, began to be challenged and transformed. in the 1960s. Amid a climate of sexual revolution, the struggle for civil rights and greater class consciousness, the growth of the gay rights movement, counterculture, and the period's opposition to the Vietnam War, large sectors of society advocated loosening of the straitjacket of restricted gender definitions”.
The exhibition addresses themes such as power, patriarchy, identity queer, feminine perceptions of men, hypermasculine stereotypes, tenderness and family, the exhibition shows the important role of photography and film in the way masculinities are imagined and understood in contemporary culture. “In the wake of #MeToo, the image of masculinity has come into sharper focus, with ideas of toxic and fragile masculinity permeating today's society. This exhibition traces the often complex and sometimes contradictory representations of masculinities and how they have developed and evolved over time”, argues the center.
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And for now, the galleries tate They will be the last to open during this month of July. It will be from the 27th and although access to its facilities is free, visitors will have to book a ticket with a pre-defined time to avoid crowds. At Tate Modern it is possible to see a retrospective, the artist's first in almost 20 years, of Andy Warhol, an artist who, as the museum says, “embraced consumerism, celebrity and counterculture and changed modern art in the process.” In addition to his iconic pop images of Marilyn Monroe, Coca-Cola, and Campbell's soup cans, he includes twenty-five works from his series. ladies and gentlemenportraits of black and Latina drag queens and trans women are exhibited for the first time in 30 years.
Tate Britain, located in Milbank, opens its doors with drawings by Aubrey Beardsley and its headquarters in St. Yves does so with Naum Gabo.
