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“Meditations in an Emergency” is the first exhibition to open in 2020 at UCCA Beijing, bringing together 26 Chinese and international artists reflecting on the role of art during a time of crisis.

Italy’s most visited cultural sites want to reopen and come out of Italy’s two-month lockdown, while ensuring visitors to do it safely. Florence Cathedral has introduced devices that will allow people to visit the celebrated basilica, ensuring the minimum safety distance between them.

The Culture Secretary of the UK has announced representatives from the arts, cultural and sporting worlds who will join a new taskforce aimed at helping getting the country’s recreation and leisure sector up and running again.

France could make up for its financial losses amid the coronavirus pandemic by selling the Mona Lisa, a tech CEO has suggested. Stephane Distinguin, the founder of tech company Fabernovel, made the suggestion in a magazine interview, explaining that France should “sell the family jewellery” for at least €50 billion (£44.7 billion).

Finnish artist Jukka Korkeila uses installation, drawing, and most commonly painting to convey his unique perspective on a fragile but harsh world. In 1999 he was named Young Artist of the Year in Finland he took part in the Prague Biennale in 2003 and 2007 as well as the Sao Paulo Art Biennale in 2004. He has exhibited in major galleries and exhibitions around the world.

Sean Henry often portrays contemporary-looking, casual figures in distracted or thoughtful poses. He believes that “all sculpture is inherently theatrical” and has remarked upon watching a play and being struck by the “pure sculpture” of the scene.

'I like to tilt the image by adding what is for just a second an association to the subject. Through simple manipulations, the subjects are given a charge that makes them into something else; they suggest multiple meanings, or even a way of looking at reality'.

Exactly 80 years to the day when Churchill became Prime Minister, Sotheby’s to offer a collection of rare books & manuscripts, embracing his prolific life and career.

The Rijksmuseum is publishing the largest and most detailed ever photograph of The Night Watch on its website, making it possible to zoom in on individual brushstrokes and even particles of pigment in the painting. Work on Operation Night Watch will resume on Wednesday 13 May in the glass chamber in the museum.

Running through 30 June, Virtual Design Festival is the world’s first online design festival. On Saturday VDF teamed up with Schloss Hollenegg for the virtual opening of an exhibition exploring the wilder side of nature, including a live tour of the historic castle later today.

Timo Menke is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in Stockholm. Investigating the relationship between the observer and the observed, subject and object, recorder and projector, lens and screen, his practice is increasingly aiming at a dark holistic approach. Using photographic and moving images, documents, objects, drawing and plant cultivation he approaches, renegotiates and speculates about our common nature-culture, in order to highlight and transform an increasingly dark matter: body, earth, space.

Photographer Peter Beard, world-renowned for his beautiful and intimate images of Africa and African wildlife, was found dead at age 82 after he went missing from his Montauk, New York, home on April 1.

Man is part of the great whole and does not stand above nature. That the human animal is exceptional, is merely an illusion. Like other animals, he is governed by biology and by the laws that govern other animals. Suddenly, within a few weeks, we have become the chicken that has to be kept indoors, cordoned-off, kept apart.

"I just like to document. I like to take something simple and try to make it look beautiful. Essentially I’m just taking a photo-diary but I want to look back at it in some years and think "wow, how cool was that!?"

On the first anniversary of the devastating blaze that ripped through Notre-Dame Cathedral, there are no builders on site and the scientists involved are working from home. France 24 investigates how Covid-19 is affecting the reconstruction of the 850-year-old monument.

For the second street project in its New Ruins series, Manege Central Exhibition Hall invited six artists who have all abandoned what could be called a classic graffiti narrative. Moving away from common statements associated with street art, they began to explore other age-old means of artistic expression.

Foam photography museum in Amsterdam is currently closed to the public until further notice. Still it's possible to learn online the exhibitions, artist Q&A’s, curator tours, magazine highlights, talent features and more.

Multimedia artist Nathalie Vanheule incorporates performance, sculpture and video installations into her work. In 2020, she has a series of exhibitions lined up, including a show at the Osan Museum of Contemporary Art in Korea. Curated by Kusuk Yon, the show features 4 contemporary performance artists and allows each artist to build upon the work left behind by the previous exhibitor. Nathalie is set to be the final artist in the series.

Every aspect of life seems to have been impacted by the coronavirus. But there are some constants amidst all of the tumult. ArtDependence reached out to the artists themselves to find out how they are being impacted in the days of corona.

David Hockney is in lockdown at his house in Normandy with his dog Ruby and two of his long-standing assistants, JP and Jonathan. He is in the garden most days, drawing the spring awakening on his iPad. In a BBC exclusive, he is sharing 10 of his most recent images (including one animation), nine of which have never been published before, for us all to enjoy at this difficult time, along with his thoughts on the role of art in life.