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White slim fit t-shirt constructed from ultra-fine cotton. Aged wash and distressing details throughout. Unique graphic print on front. Gallery Dept. text logo print in gold across back of garment overlayed on top of red "Art That Kills" text print. Finished with a rib-knit hem, and cuffs. Tonal stitching throughout. Slim fit 100% Cotton Made in Italy Model is wearing size M Model is 63 (189 cm), 140 pounds (68 kg), usually wears M in tops. A size 30 in denim and 48 in trousers. Size 10 in shoes.

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Is It Street Wear or Is It Art?

The hottest new street wear label in Los Angeles is more like a personal art project.

By Nathan Taylor Pemberton

As the number of abandoned storefronts and closed retail outlets continues to mount, the once unremarkable activity of shopping at brick-and-mortar stores can feel like reality askew — like a stroll through the Twilight Zone. As this glum new normal becomes, well, the norm, signs of life can be almost as jarring.

Take, for instance, a pair of storefront windows on Beverly Boulevard in West Hollywood. Just recently they were lifeless reminders of an upscale furniture store, now defunct. Then, in August, they began to fill with seemingly unconnected objects: bluejeans piled in a chest-high mound, a lounge chair upholstered in denim, a mannequin in a jumpsuit with an eyeball for a head standing amid a sea of paint-splattered drop cloths.

Hand-painted signage in the other window offered only that this “Appointment Only” storefront with the cryptic displays, and the 6,000 square feet of retail space behind them, are the domain of Gallery Dept.

Despite the name, Gallery Dept. isn’t a gallery or a department store but a hybrid clothing label that sits somewhere in the Venn diagram overlap between street wear label, denim atelier, neighborhood tailor and vintage store. Just as accurately, you could call Gallery Dept. the personal art project of its founder Josué Thomas, a designer whose own creative urges are just as disparate and layered.

With so many small brands in a state of retreat this summer, Mr. Thomas’s label has not only weathered these spirit-crushing conditions but thrived. In less than two years, Gallery Dept. has moved from a crowded workshop a few blocks down Beverly Boulevard to its new space in part because its hoodies, logo tees, anoraks and flare-cut jeans — each designed and hand-painted by Mr. Thomas on upcycled or dead-stock garments — have become unlikely objets d’art in a crowded street wear market.

This corner of the fashion industry is a crowded one, and in recent years there have been a glut of collaborations and merch drops that have taken on a corporate cadence. In contrast, Gallery Dept. is something of a bespoke operation, offering street wear basics that are blessed with an artist’s (in this case Mr. Thomas’s) singular touch.

Mr. Thomas began to cut jeans and screen-print shirts as the mood struck in 2017, and since that time Gallery Dept. has grown from an underground cult label for collectors to one with atmospheric clout after being worn by Kendall Jenner, LeBron James, Kendrick Lamar and two of the three Migos (Offset and Quavo).

Those lucky enough to enter the appointment-only space, now booked with up to 20 appointments a day, are greeted inside by a 20-foot-tall span of wall that reads, “Art That Kills” in a large crawl text, and the occasional reference to Rod Serling’s seminal sci-fi program.

Throughout the sunlit store, Mr. Thomas’s abstract paintings and writings fill the spaces between clothing racks and bright brass shelves heavy with the brand's thick hoodies and sweatpants. Over the chug of sewing machines, one can hear snippets of bossa nova Muzak, a vinyl-only mix also made by Mr. Thomas. (There are also plans to release music by other artists, including the New York rapper Roc Marciano, under an Art That Kills imprint.)

Gallery Dept.’s new space was financed on the strength of e-commerce sales from this past spring, and not with the help of venture capital or outside investors, Mr. Thomas said on a recent walk-through. This freedom gives him and the label, which now employs 12 people, the freedom to operate on its own esoteric terms. And there are a few. In the store’s dressing rooms, there are no mirrors to survey a fit. (“We’re going to tell you if a piece works or not,” he said.) Nor are there price tags on its garments.

“If the first thing you look at is the price, it’s going to alter your thinking about a piece,” he said. “I’d rather people engage with the clothing first.”

The Gallery Dept. does not indulge pull requests from stylists or send its pieces to influencers, a practice Mr. Thomas explains with a trace of punk indignation.

“Kendall doesn’t get a discount,” he said. “We don’t seed. I don’t care who it is — we don’t cater to different markets.”

Wearing cutoff carpenter pants and a white T-shirt, each dusted in a fine rainbow splatter, Mr. Thomas looked every bit like an artist roused from his creative flow, complete with paint-stained hands and individually colored fingernails. Standing in a mauve-carpeted room, Mr. Thomas pointed out his latest ideas: pewter jewelry in eccentric shapes, like an earring in the shape of a zipper pull, made in collaboration with the Chrome Hearts offshoot, Lone Ones, and shorts cut from dead-stock military laundry bags — while explaining the origins of his own style.

“I liked my parent’s clothing growing up,” Mr. Thomas said. “As a teenager, I was able to fit into my dad’s leather jacket. The beat-up patina on it was perfect, and I realized that that was personal style. It was something you couldn’t go to a store and buy.”

Mr. Thomas, who turned 36 in September, never studied fashion or garment making, and he can’t work a sewing machine. But growing up as the son of immigrants from Venezuela and Trinidad, he watched as his parents subsisted on their raw artistic skills to create a life in Los Angeles. And he now uses those same talents as an artist and designer: sign-painting, tie-dying, screen printing. For a short time, his father, Stefan Gilbert, even ran a private women’s wear label.

Similarly, in his early 20s, Mr. Thomas worked at Ralph Lauren. As one of the few Black people in creative roles in a predominantly white company, he soon realized that the only way to survive in the fashion industry would have to be with a project of his own making.

“I was the ‘cool’ Black guy, but there was nowhere for me to go,” he said. “Best case would have been sourcing buttons for women’s outerwear or something.”

Gallery Dept.’s spontaneous inception came about in 2016 when Mr. Thomas sold a hand-sewn denim poncho off his own back to Johnny Depp’s stylist. At the time Mr. Thomas was focused on making beats and D.J.-ing, but after selling all of the pieces he’d designed for a small trunk show at the Chateau Marmont, he realized he’d discovered a new creative lane.

It had less to do with ponchos, which were dropped from subsequent collections, and more to do with old garments being remixed in the heat of artistic paroxysm, with as little second-guessing as possible. With the help of Jesse Jones, a veteran tailor, Mr. Thomas began churning out made-to-order pieces for customers who often were unaware of what, exactly, they had stumbled into.

“We were creating pieces while we were selling them,” he said.

Working with heavy vintage shirts, hoodies, trucker hats, bomber jackets, whatever was at hand, Mr. Thomas would frequently screen-print the brand’s logo, adding paint or other flourishes as the feeling struck.

Today that extends to long-sleeve tees, sweatpants and socks. At the time, he also began blowing out the silhouette of vintage Levi’s 501s and Carhartt work pants into a subtle flare, accented with patches and reinforced stitching, resulting in a streetwise update of the classic boot-cut jean.

Mr. Thomas christened this style of jeans the “LA Flare.” And where denim has so historically hewed to “his” and “her” categories, the LA Flare is the zeitgeist-y “they” of street wear denim. (The label labels its items as “unisex.”)

The jeans come with a luxury item’s price tag, with a basic version starting at $395. Custom tailoring and additional touches by Mr. Thomas, can push the price upward of $1,200. One early collaboration with Chrome Hearts, a pair of orange-dyed flares patched with that brand’s iconic gothic crosses, has gone for $5,000 on Grailed.

“There is nothing like Josue’s repurposed jeans,” said George Archer, a senior buyer at Mr Porter. “They are both a wearable piece and a work of art. No one else is doing what he’s doing.”

For Mr. Archer, who first noticed the Gallery Dept. logo popping on men in Tokyo in March, Mr. Thomas “interprets and creates” clothing as if it was an end in itself — and not a commodity to be monetized. (Nonetheless, Mr Porter hopes to monetize a collection of Gallery Dept. pieces via its e-commerce site later this year.)

“You can feel the warmth of Josue’s hands on each of the pieces,” said Motofumi Kogi, the creative director of the Japanese label United Arrows & Sons. An elder statesmen of Tokyo’s street wear scene, Mr. Kogi found the label on a trip to Los Angeles last year. It’s not only Mr. Thomas’s artistic touch that stands out to him but his vision for remaking a staid garment into something that Mr. Kogi believes has not been seen before.

“He took this staple of hip-hop culture and refreshed it,” he said, referring to Carhartt pants.

Getting the people who make that culture to buy in was another matter. “The first year we did the flare, in 2017, skinny jeans were in,” Mr. Thomas said. “Rappers would come into the shop and say they’d never wear a flare. Now, everyone is wearing it.”

On Instagram, fit pics by rappers like Rich the Kid, along with the aforementioned Migos, Quavo and Offset, Gallery Dept.’s flare has become a familiar silhouette, skinny jeans breaking loose below the knee, usually coiled up at the ankle around a pair of vintage Air Jordans.

One fan of the jeans, Virgil Abloh, sees Mr. Thomas’s “edit” of the classic garment as the next chapter of its history.

“Their flare cut is the most important new cut of denim in the last decade — since the skinny jean,” Mr. Abloh said. A self-described Levi’s “obsessive” who owns more than 20 pairs of Gallery Dept. jeans, he walked into Mr. Thomas’s workshop one day after a routine stop at the Erewhon Market across the street.

“I thought: ‘This is amazing. Here’s some guys editing their own clothes in a shop,’” he said. “It reminded me of what I was doing when I started out, painting over logos, making hand-personalized clothes.”

Mr. Abloh considers Mr. Thomas’s work to be the fashion equivalent of “ready-made” art, and he offers Shayne Oliver of Hood by Air as a distant contemporary. He suggested that he and Mr. Thomas come from a lineage of Black designers that is still in the process of defining itself.

“He’s a perfect example of someone creating their own path from a community that hasn’t traditionally participated in fashion,” Mr. Abloh said. “I see Josue as making a new canon of his own, showcasing what Black design can do.”

Mr. Thomas didn’t argue with that. But he was also a little preoccupied with whatever was taking place at the tips of fingers to get lost in the thought. The future of his brand, after all, depends on his ability to stay in that moment.

“People want things that aren’t contrived,” he said, pulling at his own shirt to drive the point home. “This paint came from me working. I wanted to recreate this feeling. Once something is contrived, when you can see through it, it’s ruined. There’s only so much you want to explain.”

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Sante Fe, New Mexico 

Modern General Feed & Seed was founded in 2015 by local Santa Fe restaurateur and farmer Erin Wade. Located in the city’s Railyard neighborhood, the brightly-lit space is decorated with natural wood finishes and dotted with contemporary furniture and decor. There is a cafe that serves fresh smoothies, juices, toasts, bowls, and pastries and flanking the seating area, visitors will find a range of books and kitchen supplies for sale. Wade also stocks locally-made, eco-conscious apothecary items, as well as gardening tools, glass barware, ceramic dishware, and handmade wooden bowls and spoons. –Brooke Bobb

Sante Fe, New Mexico

Twenty minutes from downtown Santa Fe, adjacent to the town’s small local airport, there is a mysterious-looking, unmarked warehouse space. For vintage-lovers, particularly those attracted to old Americana, the inside of said building is a mecca. Founded by the late Scott Corey, who spent more than 30 years collecting, Santa Fe Vintage is a treasure trove: rare vintage denim from Levi’s and Wrangler, antique quilts and cowboy hats, beaded Rodeo costumes, old vinyl albums, Victorian slips and dresses, a plethora of silver and turquoise accessories, and on and on. It’s possible to spend an entire day (or two) sifting through the shop’s offerings, which are now overseen by current owner Teo Griscom. Though Santa Fe Vintage has an online shop, the warehouse is by-appointment only and visited frequently by well-known stylists and vintage enthusiasts alike from around the country. In short, Santa Fe Vintage is a true hidden gem in the Land of Enchantment. —B.B.

Los Angeles, California

You will be just as dazzled by the art as the fashion at Just One Eye, a concept store in Los Angeles’s burgeoning Sycamore district. A scrap metal John Chamberlain sculpture greets you at the door of the impressive gallery-like space, while a Damien Hirst daisy painting casually decorates the back wall. And that’s not to mention the Murakami.

Store owner Paola Russo’s discerning eye for art is more than matched by her taste in designer clothes. High-fashion collectibles from Gucci, Celine, and Prada hang alongside pieces from exciting new names—Y/Project, Grace Wales Bonner, and the like. Perhaps the store’s biggest claim to fame outside the blue-chip artwork though, comes courtesy of a Hollywood A-lister: Just One Eye boasts furniture designed by Brad Pitt. —Chioma Nnadi

Oakland, California

Since opening its doors in 2007, Oakland concept store McMullen has been a one-stop shop for high-end womenswear and independent lines from around the world. Filled with eclectic finds from the likes of New York designer Christopher John Rogers, Lagos-based label Maki Oh, and Copenhagen up-and-comers Saks Potts, the boutique reflects the quirky-cool tastes and distinctive personal style of its owner Sherri McMullen, an accountant turned fashion buyer. “I started my business because I wanted to curate a positive environment for women and empower them through how they dress,” McMullen told Vogue . As well as being a passionate advocate for young designers, McMullen is committed to giving back to organizations focused on women, children, and the arts; she often uses the brand’s Instagram to support small businesses beyond the world of fashion. —C.N.

San Francisco, California

Former Vogue editor Emily Holt opened the first iteration of Hero Shop in San Francisco’s vibrant Tenderloin back in 2016. With more than a decade’s worth of experience on the New York fashion scene, Holt brings a forward-thinking retail sensibility to her hometown that is at once laid back and ultra stylish. The store–cum–cool community center is home to such labels as Brock Collection, Marni, and Gabriela Hearst, while also housing one-of-a-kind yet affordable treasures: Think, hand-embroidered vintage sweatshirts from the L.A.-based line I Stole My Boyfriend’s Shirt. With a second location in Marin Country Mart in Larkspur, just across the Golden Gate Bridge, Holt is expanding that warm and inviting vision. Here you’ll find exuberant floral tableware from Milanese fashion and lifestyle purveyors La Double J alongside quietly exquisite jewelry by Californian jewelry designer Sophie Buhai. —C.N.

Ashland, Oregon

Owner Jennifer Streit had shops in Berkeley and San Francisco before she opened her current location in Ashland, Oregon, a small town just past the California border that’s known for its Shakespeare Festival. Prize supplies all the little details that make a home sing: hand soaps from Hawaii, Japanese dishcloths, and colorful Parisian candies. Those in search of a super-soft swan stuffed animal or a vintage Hermès scarf will also likely be in luck. Prize’s stock varies seasonally, and that’s exactly what makes it the perfect stop: there’s always something new to see—though charming cards and an array of fine jewelry can be counted on as constants. —Ella Riley-Adams

Portland, Oregon

Portland shop Frances May opened in 2008 as a collaborative effort between Pamela Baker-Miller and her grandmother. They started with eight designers—Samantha Pleet and Rachel Comey among them—on two small racks. Now, the shop showcases more than 65 designers, as well as menswear and an apothecary. The year 2020 saw a number of shifts: First, much of Frances May’s business moved online (though Baker-Miller notes she has always nurtured a web presence). When Portland erupted in protests, the shop’s West End windows hosted artist-made Black Lives Matter posters . At the end of the year, Frances May moved into a new space where sparkly Collina Strada water bottles stand illuminated by floor-to-ceiling windows. Baker-Miller says she’s grateful for the way Portland fosters small businesses. “It has a really tight-knit community and it really champions all of its industry.” —E.R.A.

Ketchum, Idaho 

On the main street in Ketchum, Idaho, is Huck & Paddle, a small, cozy store that specializes in Western home goods. They sell hand-painted wooden canoe paddles, wool blankets, glass match cloches, and a plethora of items involving cowhide. Yet it’s far from kitschy—owner Emily Stoddard describes the aesthetic as “mountain modern” with a bit of “eclectic cabin.” And due to its proximity to Sun Valley ski resort, Huck & Paddle also has quite a cult following from the town’s locals and the fashionable visitors that pass through it. —Elise Taylor

Jackson Hole, Wyoming

Hear the term “outdoorsman” and think bearded, disheveled, and flannel-wearing? Let Mountain Dandy turn that archetype on its unkempt head. This Jackson Hole, Wyoming store specializes in artisanal men’s products: Think everything from Fair Isle socks, to all natural mustache wax, to needlepoint croakies and flasks. (A particular, peculiar favorite? Whiskey-scented dish soap.)

Although you certainly don’t need to be of the male persuasion to peruse, or appreciate, Mountain Dandy. Art abounds—it sells ceramics by 19-year-old Jackson native Theo Hirschfield, who is somewhat of a TikTok sensation (at press time, he had almost a million followers for his pottery videos.), as well as fiber sculptures by L.A.-based artist Karen Tinny. Then there are the items that are classics in any cozy home: cashmere blankets, candles, and fireplace accessories. —E.T.

Mesa, Arizona

Step (virtually, that is) into the Etsy shop of Her Name is Mud and you’ll find an uplifting assortment of handmade ceramic jewelry and other odds and ends for the home. These pieces come in a blushing array of soft hues and are decorated with kind reminders to savor small moments, as well as little mantras like “be brave” and “stay true”. The woman behind these joyful creations is Krista Coons, who has a self proclaimed “healthy obsession for color” (her studio floors are covered in millennial pink penny tile) but is also taken by warm, earthy tones. The desert surroundings in her home base of Mesa, Arizona, act as an endless source of inspiration for Coons. —Madeline Fass

Honolulu, Hawaii

While exploring Twin Urchin’s Etsy shop you’ll find a warm, sunlit collection of vintage pieces sourced from the islands of Hawaii. Sun worshipers, minimalists, and vintage decor lovers alike will find joy in Twin Urchin’s selection of chunky gold baubles, clamshell shaped trinkets, and amber glassware. Find something you like, and you can expect your treasure to be packed using reused and recycled shipping materials. For those of us who don’t get to call Hawaii home, browsing Twin Urchin’s online shop from wherever you are is incredibly soothing, and if you stay long enough you might even end up with a souvenir for yourself. —M.F.

Salt Lake City, Utah

Drawing inspiration from ’70s-era style, Southwestern landscapes, and a touch of modernism, Sarah of Sarah Safavi Jewelry crafts beautiful metal jewelry, including dome-shaped rings and textured hoops. Safavi also creates patchwork patterns with earthy slab stones and fashions them into drop earrings and token necklaces, and she uses turquoise to adorn bolo ties for customers in every corner of the country. Available through her Etsy shop, Safavi dreams up her jewelry just outside her home in Salt Lake City, where she uses silversmithing, lost wax casting, and lapidary techniques in a studio that she and her family built right in their backyard. —M.F.

Seattle, Washington 

In the north end of the Capitol Hill neighborhood in Seattle, a city that is no stranger to wet weather, you’ll find Freeman raincoat shop, founded by Scott and Brittany Freeman and their friend Alex Frank in 2013. The in-house clothing label consists of their signature rain jackets and a handful of additional men’s wardrobe staples like crewnecks and T-shirts, as well as a fine selection of goods like illustrated greeting cards, apothecary products, and a line of scented candles also made in Seattle. The Freeman's believe that producing products locally is the most important aspect of their business, and they are heavily involved in every step of the design process, from fabric procurement to production, as well as stocking the shelves with brands that align with the value system through which Freeman was born. —M.F.

Homer, Alaska

At Salmon Sisters in Homer, Alaska, cofounders Emma Laukitis and Claire Neaton (the eponymous siblings) run a store very much inspired by its surroundings. “Homer is a community built around a working waterfront, fishing industry, and the wild beauty of the Kachemak Bay State Park,” says Laukitis. “Our town at the end of the road is full of small, family-run businesses and an entrepreneurial spirit. Growing up here surrounded by resourceful, hard-working people gave us the confidence to start our own business.” On offer are outdoor gear and apparel (among their top-selling items is a hoodie reading “All Good Things Are Wild & Free”), home goods, and fresh, wild fish, sustainably harvested by Alaskan fishermen. —Marley Marius

Bozeman, Montana

Downtown Bozeman is quaint. The streets are lined with a mix of modern coffee shops, eateries, boutiques, and even a few rough-around-the-edges Western bars. With the city’s proximity to nature, many pass through Bozeman on their way to Yellowstone, but really, Bozeman is not a pass-through kind of town. While visiting, a perfect afternoon has to include a visit to Meridian, a boutique on Main Street that opened in 1993 and features a thoughtful selection of denim, ready-to-wear, and accessories from independent designers and more established brands, like Rag & Bone, Mother, and Frame. —Rachel Besser

Aspen, Colorado

Located in the heart of Aspen, Paris Underground offers a dazzling array of eclectic and fanciful treasures for the home. Fueled by a personal passion for mid-century modern French antiques, Laura Blocker opened her store in 2001 and has been expanding her offering ever since.

The store mixes antiques of every era sourced directly by Blocker. To wit, a pair of Pierre Guariche for Airborne chairs sit next to a caviar server in the spirit of Franco Lapini. Local Aspen area homeowners and tourists alike visit Paris Underground to give personality to their most beloved spaces. —Rickie De Sole

Colorado retailer Max Fashion is known for its sharp mix of big name-brand classics and up-and-coming designers. The store’s founder, Max Martinez, stocks some of fashion’s most covetable labels, including Bottega Veneta, Celine, Dries Van Noten and Gabriela Hearst, but he also remains true to the Colorado lifestyle. Martinez invests in more casual pieces too–at Max you can find some of the world’s best cashmere sweaters and coats. His loyal staff (his store manager has been with him for 26 years) and clients have made him a community staple. Don’t let the ski town fool you, this shop in the heart of Aspen could just as easily be on Fifth Avenue! —R.D.S.

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Newport, California

Even without stepping foot inside, A’maree’s offers something to marvel at—its swooping, swanky 1960s structure. Located dockside in Newport Beach, the undulating arched space was built by architectural firm Ladd & Kelsey following the era’s tastes for futurism. Its distinctive shape is also said to mimic the sails of the boats that bob in nearby Newport Harbor. The striking building originally housed the now-closed Stuft Shirt restaurant before Nancy Brown—proprietor of A’maree’s—took it over. For more than a decade, the building has been in her loving care and she’s filled it with top-tier fashions from Maison Margiela to Maison Rabih Kayrouz. There’s also paper-thin porcelain from Astier de Villatte and striped cashmere throws from the Elderstatesmen. Brown has also enlisted the help of her three daughters Apryl, Denise, and Dawn in the running of the shop. It’s a go-to for the yacht-set given its convenient location and has become a retail icon in southern California. - Lilah Ramzi

Phoenix, Arizona

Founded by Christy Kimball and Stephen Clark, Framed Ewe set out to offer the best experience for its customers looking for a new pair of eyewear. Shop a wide assortment of spectacles and sunglasses from labels such as Salt and Ahlem as well as specialty frames from Jacques Marie Mage. Easily set up an eye exam consultation and styling session (virtually or in-person) or peruse the online shop for the perfect set of shades. Framed Ewe was established in 2012 in Phoenix and has since launched outposts in Los Angeles, including Fred Segal. The founders see Framed Ewe as not only a place to help bring independent eyewear designers to the forefront but a place to support local communities. The shops host fundraisers and act as gallery spaces for up-and-coming artists. —Julie Tong

Established in 2007 by South Korea–born, Oregon-raised Diana Kim, Stand Up Comedy is an unusual yet intriguing storefront that sits along Southwest Broadway in downtown Portland. In what looks like a jeweler shop plucked from the diamond district in New York City, Stand Up Comedy’s current home happens to be in one of the city’s few remaining original and historical storefronts, which dates back to 1912. You won’t find any retail items on display in the shop’s untraditionally small windows, though. Kim prefers to use the windows to showcase her designers’ creative processes instead of actual merchandise. One of the more notable window displays was a collaboration with New York–based pop-up concept shop, Cafe Forgot. Beyond the doors, you’ll find a very thoughtful and non-hierarchical assortment of clothing, books, and objects (jewelry and accessories). Among them a fine selection of forward-thinking emerging and established designers such as, 69, Building Block, Comme des Garçons, Eckhaus Latta, Issey Miyake, Lauren Manoogian, Maison Margiela, Suzanne Rae, Medea, and Martine Rose. For those who aren’t local to the shop, you’re in luck. Stand Up Comedy’s web store ships worldwide.

Gallery Dept, the label and the store, defies categorization, so much so that the New York Times profile of founder and designer Josué Thomas ran with the headline “Is It Street Wear or Is It Art?” Located in West Hollywood, the store is open by appointment only, and sells Thomas’s cult-favorite jeans, screen-printed shirts (one available online is faux merch for the “Coronavirus world tour”), and more. The collection began in 2016, when Thomas sold a celebrity stylist a hand-sewn denim poncho. From there, Thomas grew a following with his custom pieces, which then became Gallery Dept’s highly-coveted line. Virgil Abloh is a fan, along with Kendall Jenner and LeBron James. If you’re lucky enough to get one of the coveted time slots, jump at the chance. -—Sarah Spellings

Denver, Colorado

“Homebody is the antithesis of mass production,” says Dory Pratt of her interior decor store, which sits upon the edge of Denver’s upscale Cherry Creek neighborhood. The shelves are stocked with a worldly assortment of artisans: There’s Astier de Villatte ceramics, Byredo candles, Georges Pelletier lamps, Lito jewelry, and Mud dishware. The most important criterion for collection, however, is comfort—“I’m a very visual and tactile person,” says Pratt. “I look for soft, inviting fabrics and colors.” —Elise Taylor

O’ahu, Hawaii

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The World’s Top Museums Are Finding New Ways to Share Art During Coronavirus

By Betsy Blumenthal

When Kaywin Feldman, the director of the National Gallery of Art , informed staff in early March of her decision to temporarily close the museum in response to the coronavirus , the social media team immediately sprung into action. Their goal? To try and fit as much art into their phones as possible, to craft into virtual museum tours, all in about a day and a half.

“People that work for me spent their entire day capturing video content and interviews with curators—some who are wearing jeans and sneakers and Doc Martens with no makeup on,” says Anabeth Guthrie, the museum’s chief of communications. “We deployed a lot of resources quickly to capture what we knew we’d need for any amount of closure, whether a month or two months or three.”

The Washington, D.C. museum, which welcomed more than 4 million visitors last year, has rushed to adapt to the new normal of social distancing and lockdowns along with its contemporaries around the world. And in many cases, museums—including those that don’t benefit from the same level of financial support as the National Gallery of Art, which receives a yearly appropriation for day-to-day operations from the federal government—are now having to do more with less. Even major institutions like the Guggenheim have had to furlough some staff members and implement pay cuts for others in anticipation of massive revenue shortfalls, while others, like the San Francisco Museum of Art (SFMoMA) , have made layoffs .

Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art has been closed since March 13.

There have been a few small upsides to the closures. In fact, for many institutions, the lockdown has been a boon to their websites and social media channels, showcasing the public’s vast appetite for visual and intellectual fodder while stuck at home. “It’s completely changing the way we communicate with our larger audiences,” says Guthrie.

The museum has launched a weekly newsletter that pushes out new virtual content, including digital education resources . It’s also making use of the hashtag #MuseumFromHome, and providing viewers with virtual museum tours of the East and West Buildings, complete with commentary from curators, as well as tours of the Sculpture Garden. Viewers have responded with enthusiasm: Traffic to the museum’s website shot up 400 percent in the first week of closure, says Guthrie.

The shift from drawing audiences into museums to meeting prospective visitors at home is a massive one. By nature, museums are largely analog, as much of their appeal lies in seeing the works firsthand. Now, in the wake of the pandemic, these institutions—home to centuries of creative thought—have had to get creative themselves.

The Brooklyn Museum , whose much-anticipated exhibit, “Studio 54: Night Magic” opened March 13, the same day the museum closed its doors, launched #VirtualFirstSaturday on April 4. A stand-in for the museum’s free programming–filled First Saturdays, the first online iteration included a hands-on course teaching the art of foil embossing and a drag tribute to the age of disco by House of Bushwig, all accessible via Facebook and Zoom.

New York’s Museum of Modern Art has stepped up its online offerings, too, with Virtual Views , which takes readers inside an exhibition through video stories, curator Q&As, audio playlists, and articles. The museum is also providing special resources for families and teachers, like the Artist Project with Louise Lawler , for which the artist created 12 drawings that users can download and color.

New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art would usually be filled with visitors, but is now closed to the public indefinitely.

Even the Metropolitan Museum of Art , celebrating its 150th anniversary this year, has gotten in on the fun. Newly launched is its #MetAnywhere initiative , which is surfacing digital content from deep within its reserves; it also launched the hashtag #MetTwinning in the months before the pandemic, which is now really taking off, with folks recreating some of the museum’s most iconic artworks, right down to the outfits. (A pug in a cap, for example, has made for a hilarious new take on the Met Cloisters’ "The Unicorn in Captivity," a tapestry dating to the late Middle Ages.)

At the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago , much of the focus is now on the Commons Online . Named after the museum’s eponymous second-floor gathering space, the Commons Online directs viewers to virtual studio visits with artists like the New York–based Autumn Knight, held on Instagram live; forum-style discussions on generational inequality and the environment, streamed on Zoom and Facebook; and resources for parents and teachers, like instructions for how to create toys out of recycled materials. The museum recently hosted its its first virtual drag queen story time on Zoom on April 3, and has encouraged its followers to spend more time with works of art, using the hashtag #SlowArtDay. In the words of the museum’s director, Madeleine Grynsztejn, in a letter posted on the museum’s website: “Creativity is not canceled!”

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Other museums, like Madrid’s Museo Nacional del Prado , found fluency in their social media programming well before the pandemic struck. Its video series, in which museum staff—now, everyone from curators to guards—discuss pieces of art, launched on Instagram in 2017. In the days after closing on March 12, it produced videos with museum director Miguel Falomir and senior curator Alejandro Vergara, discussing Tintoretto’s “Christ Washing the Disciples’ Feet,” and works by Rubens, Veronese, and Poussin, respectively, both of which garnered hundreds of thousands of views, and has since launched the hashtag #PradoConTigo (Prado With You). The museum has also been sharing videos produced prior to closure; it’s now working to make new ones with curators, albeit from their homes. “We have to do our best to say, 'Hey, we are here, we are useful; we are here for you,’” says Carlos Chaguaceda, the museum’s communications director. “And the art has something to say, even in this situation, whether it’s just for entertainment, or culture, or teaching.”

There’s no question that some institutions have also found the silver lining in this situation. “One of the things we’ve been doing with some of our staff who are working at home is asking them to help us write descriptions of every image online, for accessibility purposes,” says Lisa Key, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago’s deputy director. “Our goal is for every image to have [one,] so we have staff who are helping us bump up our percentage of ones that do.”

The closures have also produced another unusual side effect: continuous near- or total darkness, which is beneficial for the art itself. “Our galleries are physically dark [right now] since we’re closed to the public,” says Key. “This allows for artworks to rest and to be protected from unnecessary light exposure. It’s an ideal scenario, almost better than storage.” At the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles , “all the humidity and temperature controls are being maintained, which is much easier without open doors and the ebb and flow of people,” says assistant director of communications John Giurini. The lights are off there, too, protecting artwork from their usual stress.

Museo Nacional del Prado has enlisted its curators to share educational videos from home.

In their characteristically forward-looking fashion, museums are already thinking ahead to their reopenings, planning future exhibitions, and contemplating how this situation might inform what audiences want or expect going forward.

For the Getty Museum , the concerns are both practical and elemental. “We have to think about how these extraordinary events may shape the future of museums—the way we operate and how we meet the changing needs of our audiences,” says Giurini. But while the current crisis complicates certain things, like the already complex logistics of loan exhibitions, museums are still looking forward to opening their physical doors someday soon. “Without question, our digital presence will get richer and reach increasingly broader audiences,” says Giurini. “But we will continue to advocate for the actual, in-person experience of works of art.”

The National Gallery of Art’s website already receives about 7 million visitors per year, according to Guthrie. She expects, especially now, that number will increase—and with it, the museum’s efforts, even after the outbreak ends. “I think it will change all of the add-ons, all of the communication components, all the audience engagement touch points,” she says. “[It poses questions like,] do we need to have a completely parallel experience for our online audience? Do we open an exhibition and immediately, simultaneously offer a virtual tour every time?”

One thing these institutions can agree on is the importance of encouraging engagement with art, now more than ever. “It can unite us together, and that’s what gives me hope about our abilities to really thrive in a post-COVID-19 world,” says Key. “What we’re looking at is, how can we use art to allow people to feel safe, to be creative, and to continue to think differently once we all emerge.”

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12 historic sites you can virtually tour from the couch during the coronavirus outbreak

As governments across the world implement “ social distancing ” efforts to curb the spread of coronavirus , in some cities, bars, restaurants and other public spaces have been ordered to close. That leaves self-quarantined people with a lot of free time and nowhere to go.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended postponing all large gatherings or events of 50 or more people until May, which left operators of tourist attractions with few options. Museums, historical sites and national parks have stepped up to deliver their signature experiences by offering virtual tours to anyone from the comfort of their homes.

Here’s a list of few places travelers can tour — without having to leave the couch.

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Last year, the world’s most visited museum was the subject of lamentations over overcrowding and peculiar guest behavior. Now because of its closure, visitors to the Louvre can check out virtual tours of the Egyptian antiquities collection, remains of the Louvre’s moat and the Galerie d’Apollon without having to brush by anyone’s shoulders.

Sistine Chapel

The national lockdown in Italy has forced the country to a near-standstill, shuttering public events, soccer stadiums and even the Vatican. Now, visitors can tour the interior artworks of the chapel, including its renowned ceiling and “The Last Judgment,” by the Renaissance-era painter Michelangelo.

Guggenheim Museum

The Guggenheim is offering VR access to its entire contemporary arts collection through a partnership with Google Arts & Culture. Using the Street View feature, visitors can tour the museum’s iconic architecture, sprawling design and any of its galleries.

Yosemite National Park

While parts of the park are still open for the season, those who can’t make it to California’s Sierra Nevada region can still tour the park — complete with sound — and visit some of Yosemite’s iconic landmarks, including the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias, the top of the Half Dome and the eponymous Yosemite Falls.

Van Gogh Museum

The largest Van Gogh collection in the world — 600 artworks and 700 letters — is housed in this Amsterdam museum and can be viewed via a virtual guided tour. View the inside of the museum along with insights into the Dutch postimpressionist artist’s life through paintings including “Sunflowers” and “The Yellow House.”

The Great Wall of China

China’s most famous attraction offers virtual tours of some of the most visited sections of the wall, 3,000 miles of which are walkable. With much of the country under quarantine measures, the virtual tour offers a reprieve from the crowds who normally come from all over the world to see the 2,000-year-old marvel.

Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

The Smithsonian is offering virtual tours that let visitors take a self-guided, room-by-room trip through the museum’s slate of exhibits. The current exhibits include the Butterfly Pavilion and the David H. Koch Hall of Fossils, and visitors can even journey through past exhibits, on topics including the last American dinosaurs, the universe, and DNA and genomics.

Yellowstone National Park

National parks are known for their dazzling views and historical landmarks, and Yellowstone holds some of the nation’s most iconic ones. The virtual tour takes visitors through the first national park, showing Wyoming’s most treasured sites including its canyons, hot springs and geysers, the most famous being Old Faithful.

Museum of Modern Art

The MoMa is one of over 500 museums and galleries Google Arts & Culture has partnered with to offer an interactive experience of the gallery space. The nearly 100-year-old museum is home to some of the contemporary art world’s most famous pieces, including Claude Monet’s “Water Lilies,” Vincent van Gogh’s “The Starry Night” and Pablo Picasso’s “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon.”

San Diego Zoo

The most visited zoo in the country is known for its open-air, cageless natural habitats and is famous for being one of the few zoos in the country that spearheaded conservation efforts of giant pandas. Even though pandas are no longer in the United States, the San Diego Zoo has set up live streams of its habitats for anyone to view the koalas, baboons and penguins that call the zoo home.

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British Museum

The world’s oldest national public museum is another space that has partnered with Google Arts & Culture to showcase a virtual , interactive gallery. Visitors can roam the halls of the museum, peruse the exhibits and see famous objects like the Rosetta Stone, the Parthenon sculptures and Egyptian mummies. Just don’t expect to see any Banksys lying around anytime soon.

Metropolitan Opera House

The Met in New York will host nightly encore performances of some of its most iconic shows throughout its season. The free streams will go live at 7:30 p.m. each day and be available for 20 hours after the performance. The slate includes the likes of Puccini’s “La Bohème” and Verdi’s “Il Trovatore” for viewers on-demand.

“We’d like to provide some grand opera solace to opera lovers in these extraordinarily difficult times,” Met General Manager Peter Gelb said in a statement.

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Virtual museum-going: A guide for socially-distanced art lovers

By David Morgan

March 25, 2020 / 6:20 PM EDT / CBS News

In lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic ? Closed museums offer art lovers virtual opportunities to explore works from among the world's leading collections online. Here's a look.

Exhibitions online

With the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., closed, visitors at home can take in the beauty of the outdoors with its stunning online exhibition, "True to Nature: Open-Air Painting in Europe 1780-1870," featuring works by Coignet, Constable, Giroux and others; and the NGA's exploration of Edgar Degas' works depicting the Paris Opéra .

Images from the Smithsonian Museum of American Art 's current exhibition, "Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists," can be viewed online, along with audio commentary of selected works and video interviews of artists.

Explore Diego Rivera's murals in the Detroit Institute of Arts ' online exhibit, "Diego Rivera's Detroit Industry."

At the website of New York City's  Whitney Museum , the online exhibition "Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945" features companion videos, essays, audio guides and installation photography.

Large-scale installations of sculptures and mixed-media pieces are featured with commentary on the website of the Dia Art Foundation , including works by Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter and Louise Bourgeois.

On the MASS MoCA website, the immersive exhibit "James Turrell: Into the Light" may lose a bit on a laptop, but set it to full screen, and immerse yourself in its enveloping colored light.

Virtual museum tours

The website of the Louvre Museum in Paris offers visitors a chance to stroll its galleries virtually , including its Egyptian antiquities.

London's National Gallery offers a virtual 360° tour of rooms.

Likewise, Google Street View takes you right inside the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.

Google Arts & Culture offers virtual tours of many world museums, as well as the non-museum Chauvet Cave , which displays 36,000-year-old paintings.

Art History

The Guggenheim Museum in New York has released scores of PDFs of catalogues and art history books , from retrospectives of Klee, Rauschenberg, Kandinsky, Calder, Rothko and Miró, to treatises on surrealism, the structure of modern painting, and the art of the motorcycle, available for free on the Internet Archive.

The Museum of Modern Art has on its website images from every exhibition held at the museum since its founding in 1929.

The Rijks Studio features in-depth analysis of works in the collection of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, including paintings by Rembrandt and Vermeer.

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  has on its YouTube channel a series of lectures and panel discussions featuring curators, conservators, authors and critics, on such topics as the Dutch Golden Age, Impressionism, female artists, and Hollywood films produced during the Red Scare.

The Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia offers daily video art talks on major pieces in its collection.

The Pérez Art Museum Miami offers videos of art talks .

Demonstrations

The YouTube channel of the Corning Museum of Glass , in Corning, New York, offers videos of glass-blowers creating beautiful works of art.

Artist Kong Pak-yu demonstrates brushpainting on the site of San Francisco's Asian Art Museum .

The Seattle Art Museum has launched "Stay Home With SAM," sharing education lessons and storytime suggestions for children, as well as art-making activities.

Photography

The Portland Art Museum in Portland, Oregon, has several online exhibitions, including one featuring the evocative documentary-style images of photographer Victor Jorgensen (an acolyte of Edward Steichen's), who served with the Naval Aviation Photographic Unit during World War II.

"Vanity Fair: Hollywood Calling" is the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles' retrospective of the magazine's celebrity photos, with audio annotation by exhibit curator and Vanity Fair creative development editor David Friend.

"Out of the Shadows: Contemporary Chinese Photography" is an online offering from the tantalizing exhibition at the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego.

Virtual experiences

One of the premier art collections in the world, the British Museum in London makes its historical and artistic artifacts — from the Rosetta Stone to the Elgin Marbles  — accessible online. You can also trace a timeline of historical and cultural holdings and their place in mankind's development through the millennia with their "Museum of the World" project (a partnership with Google Cultural Institute).

The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam is extending its education about the life and work of the Dutch painter online , including study lessons for students. Visitors can also read his biography and letters, and view hundreds of works by the artist and his contemporaries.

Google's online gallery of the Musée d'Orsay offers a history of the Paris museum's origins as a train station .

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York offers in-depth looks at its collected works, conservatorship and children's programs. The museum also features "82nd & Fifth," in which curators discuss a single work of art that, they say, changed the world.

And while this year's Met Gala has been postponed, you can watch videos from the Costume Institute 's past exhibitions , from "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination," and "Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology," to "Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty."

"The Kimbell at Home" showcases the collection of the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, with virtual tours, audio commentaries, video lectures and children's activities. 

Serendipity

While you're not able to physically stroll through galleries for the foreseeable future, many museum websites allow you to stroll through their databases; type in an artist's name, and scores of images — some unfamiliar, some iconic — will come up. Or, wander virtually through their collections and discover remarkable treasures.

Among the collections to be explored are:

• Amon Carter Museum of American Art  in Fort Worth
• Art Institute of Chicago
• Asheville Art Museum , Asheville, North Carolina
• Baltimore Museum of Art
• The Broad  in Los Angeles
• Cleveland Museum of Art
• Dallas Museum of Art
• de Young Museum , San Francisco
• Denver Art Museum
• The Frick Collection , New York
• Georgia O'Keeffe Museum  in Santa Fe, New Mexico
• Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art
• Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago
• Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
• Philadelphia Museum of Art
• Saint Louis Art Museum
• Santa Barbara Museum of Art
• Uffizi  in Florence, Italy
• Walker Art Center , Minneapolis

And as always, be sure to exit through the gift shop.

David Morgan is a senior editor at CBSNews.com and cbssundaymorning.com.

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Temperature scans, obligatory online reservations, enforced social distancing, and sanitizing stations—these are just some of the ways your next museum visit might look different from in the past. As U.S. states and other countries gingerly emerge from lockdown, museums and cultural institutions have to comply with new government-mandated health and safety protocols and find ways to entice visitors—many of whom are now wary of spending time in enclosed spaces with strangers—back, all while dealing with the economic strife caused by the shutdowns.

For some art and design lovers, the experience of living under lockdown for months has given them a new appreciation for museums and the artistic treasures they contain. Livia Hengel, a contributor to Forbes and founder of the Italy Edit , was among the first visitors to return to Rome’s Galleria Borghese when it reopened on May 19 following the lifting of Italy’s strict lockdown. “As soon as I heard Galleria Borghese was reopening, I couldn’t wait to visit—this museum normally sells out months in advance and is always teeming with visitors,” she told AD . “It was such a treat to have the space and time to admire Bernini’s sculptures and Caravaggio’s paintings without a crowd. I picked up on details I had never seen before and enjoyed the works in a much more visceral way.” When she entered the welcome hall, an attendant scanned her temperature.

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The Galleria Borghese in Rome has started admitting a limited number of visitors, who must book their tickets in advance online.

To enforce social distancing, Galleria Borghese is limiting the number of visitors to 80 for each two-hour time slot available. Visitors must book in advance, and will receive an electronic ticket. As the rest of Rome’s museums begin to reopen, they will all require advance online ticket purchases. Per the Italian government’s new regulations, all visitors and staff must wear a face mask inside.

Some cultural sites are going a step further. The Duomo of Florence , which comprises the cathedral with Brunelleschi’s dome, the Baptistry of San Giovanni, Giotto’s bell tower, the Crypt of Santa Reparata, and the Historical Museum, is the first institution in the world that will require visitors to wear a device around their necks that buzzes and flashes if they come closer than two meters to another person. The device will be given to each visitor upon entering and will be sanitized between uses.

Other museums around the world are finding additional ways to minimize risk of the spread of COVID-19. Some are installing plexiglass barriers at ticket counters, eliminating cash payments, or reserving special timeslots for high-risk groups. The International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art (CIMAM), a global network of modern and contemporary art museum experts, shared a list of best practices for museums to adhere to in the post-coronavirus world, based on precautions taken by the National Gallery of Singapore, M+ Hong Kong, and the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo. The guidelines include temperature screening, contact tracing, suspending events and guided tours, and ensuring that visitors wear masks and stay at least a meter apart from one another. How these suggestions are implemented, and how long they remain in place, will vary.

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New York's MoMA has significantly reduced its exhibition and publishing budget due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Duomo is one of the few institutions reopening in Florence now. In an interview with Italian newspaper Il Corriere della Sera , the city’s mayor, Dario Nardella, said that because of a €200 million deficit, he can’t afford to reopen the city’s museums. Unfortunately, he’s not alone. The Metropolitan Museum , which was one of the first institutions in New York to close in March, originally planned to reopen on July 1 but has just announced it will remain shuttered until at least mid-August, and is expecting a $150 million shortfall. MoMA, which unveiled a $450 million expansion last fall, slashed its budget by $45 million, laying off staff, reducing its exhibition budget by $8 million, and cutting its publishing budget in half.

The American Alliance of Museums estimated that museums in the U.S. are losing $33 million per day because of coronavirus-related closures, and urged Congress to include at least $4 billion in aid to nonprofit museums in Covid-19 economic relief legislation. “Economic impact data compiled by the American Alliance of Museums and Oxford Economics shows that this museum economy contributes $50 billion a year to the U.S. economy and generates $12 billion in tax revenue to local, state, and federal governments,” representatives of AAM wrote in an open letter to representatives Nancy Pelosi and Kevin McCarthy and senators Mitch McConnell and Charles Schumer. AAM estimated that without significant financial assistance, as many as 30% of the country’s museums—mostly in small and rural communities—will not reopen.

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The West Gallery in New York City's Frick Collection, which is offering virtual tours through Google Arts & Culture.

Despite economic shortfalls, many museums and cultural institutions have been offering virtual visits or sharing their content via Instagram as a way to inspire people stuck at home and stay top of mind. Google Arts & Culture offers virtual tours of more than 2,000 museums worldwide , including the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, the Van Gogh Museum and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Tate Britain, the National Gallery, and the British Museum in London, and the Whitney, the Guggenheim, the Met, and the Frick in New York City.

The Museum of the City of New York just debuted a series of curator talks via Facebook and is encouraging New Yorkers to document this historic period using the hashtags #CovidStoriesNYC and #MyNYCPerspective. The Frick has launched a number of social media initiatives, including webinars, virtual tours, and “ Cocktails With a Curator ,” a YouTube series in which one of the museum’s curators explains a work of art and offers a recipe for a complimentary cocktail. Gaudì’s Casa Batlló in Barcelona even created a series of downloadable puzzles, games, and crafts for kids .

How to Help

Individuals with the interest and means can support cultural institutions—such as ICA Miami, which has yet to announce a reopening date—by purchasing a membership.

Without sufficient government aid, museums and cultural institutions may have to appeal to private donors for help. The city of Miami Beach , which has reported a $7 million loss of revenue in the first two months of stay-at-home orders, recently launched an emergency relief fund established with $1 million from an emergency reserve fund created in 1998. Museums in Miami-Dade County were allowed to start reopening on May 20, though that doesn’t mean they necessarily will. The ICA Miami, which has been closed since mid-March, has yet to announce a reopening date. The Pérez Art Museum Miami—closed since March 16—expects to lose about 20 to 30% of its annual revenue and is aiming to reopen in September.

“I think what coronavirus is doing is, it’s forcing us as individuals and as a society to reevaluate our priorities,” Kimia Kline, a painter and art curator of Brooklyn’s Wythe Hotel, told AD . “If museums are going under because they’re not funded and no one is stepping up to fill that gap, that is reflective of our society’s priorities.”

If you have the means to do so, consider donating or purchasing a membership to your favorite museums. Their very survival may depend on it.

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How coronavirus is making virtual galleries go viral

More people are visiting cultural institutions than ever before – even on lockdown

By Sebastian Shehadi

As the coronavirus forces many cultural institutions and spaces to close their doors, consumer appetite for online experiences is booming. Stuck at home, one might as well take a scroll through the Louvre.

The Courtauld Gallery’s virtual tour received 723 per cent more visitors last week than the seven days before: an unprecedented figure, explains the gallery spokesperson. Meanwhile, the British Museum’s online collection page jumped from roughly 2000 daily visits to 175,000 early last week, and is now averaging 75,000 a day.

London’s National Gallery has also tracked increased digital demand, with footfall to its virtual tour rising by 1000 percent compared to this time last year. Similarly, Google Arts and Culture – which provides hundreds of virtual tours for world leading museums – has witnessed rising traffic in recent weeks.

“[Since 2011, our team has made] culture more accessible through technology. We have a range of augmented-reality, virtual-reality, and AI features that are immersive, fun and educational – hopefully people can find these of use at such unprecedented times,” said a Google spokesperson. Google Arts and Culture also boast a highly-rated app, including popular features such as the Art Selfie, which matches portraits and pieces of art to users’ selfies.

Further evidence of audiences’ online shift includes Swiss modern art gallery, Hauser & Wirth , whose virtual viewing rooms have welcomed 200,000 visits over the last three weeks, compared to 1 million views for all of last year, according to president Iwan Wirth.

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Adapting to the new status quo, museums and galleries are stepping up the launch of new or inaugural online platforms. For example, Florence’s Palazzo Strozzi recently released a digital platform called I N TOUCH , showcasing Argentine artist Tomás Saraceno’s major exhibition online.

Supporting the launch, Ai Weiwei sent a video of encouragement in which he stated: “Coronavirus is a challenge of this special time. Many people are suffering. There’s no border. No nationality or different class or religion can really escape from this almost very democratic virus…[We need] to have some kind of positive attitude: stay home and stay together.”

Closed temporarily until the 30th of April, the Kunstmuseum Basel is also finding new ways to raise the visibility of its online exhibitions. “Especially in a time of uncertainty, art is important as a means of reflection and inspiration. That is why we are strengthening our online communication and bringing art to where you are,” a spokesperson from the museum said.

Similarly, Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum launched its We bring the museum to you  online resource, while its YouTube channel is now giving audiences 4K-video gallery tours. Although museums across the globe are improving their digital engagement strategy, the sector remains under immense strain from Covid-19’s disruption. In an increasingly familiar story, the Australian arts industry recently called for emergency state assistance.

Meanwhile, the UK government is in talks with Arts Council England – a public fund for cultural bodies – to help save museums, galleries and theatres at risk of financial ruin. 

Sebastian Shehadi is global markets editor of the Financial Times’ fDI Intelligence. He tweets at  @seblebanon

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Here are all of the artistic experiences now available from the comfort of your couch.

Visit a (Virtual) Museum

Google Arts & Culture perhaps has the most extensive assortment of museum collections of any online resource. The tech giant partnered with more than 500 museums and galleries around the world, from London's National Gallery to Los Angeles's Getty Museum to Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum. According to Fast Company , the platform includes online exhibits, a “street view” feature that lets you virtually tour the institution, and galleries of artwork, where you can take a closer look at individual paintings.

If you really want to dive deep, Russia's famed State Hermitage Museum recently released a five-hour long video tour of the entire museum. While the video was originally a promotion for the iPhone 11 Pro, it will nonetheless be a treat for art lovers everywhere. The Hermitage is one of the world's largest museums, and this video showcases 45 galleries, 588 pieces, and live performances.

As for other options, Paris's iconic Musée du Louvre offers its own virtual tours . You can wander the museum's acclaimed Egyptian Antiquities, visit the remains of the Louvre's own moat, and tour the Galerie d'Apollon, known for its jaw-dropping painted ceiling. Or, take a look inside the famed Guggenheim Museum in New York. Online, you can tour Frank Lloyd Wright’s spiraling rotunda (through Google Arts & Culture), access 200+ art books from the museum’s digital archive, and watch more than 65 artist profiles and interviews .

Other museums with online tours include Yale's Center for British Art , which houses the largest collection of British art outside the United Kingdom, The Minneapolis Institute of Art , one of the nation’s leading encyclopedic museums, and the Museum of Islamic Art , in Doha, Qatar.

In addition to online galleries, institutions like New York's Museum of Modern Art and Metropolitan Museum of Art added commentary to their exhibits. The Met has the Artist Project , where you can listen to famous artists discuss their favorite parts of the museum's collection, while MoMA has extensive YouTube offerings ranging from interviews with artists to a behind-the-scenes look at how the museum operates.

If you're more interested in interactive, rather than visual, virtual museum experiences, take a look at the American Museum of Natural History 's online resources. They have a variety of tools for families and parents, including kid's activities and games , online curriculum collections , and virtual tours on the museum’s YouTube channel , which features videos both of the museum's collections and of field research.

Other museums with interactive online features include the Corning Museum of Glass , the world’s foremost authority on glass, and the New York Historical Society . Corning's site includes an extensive digital collection . There's also video content on their YouTube channel with hundreds of hours of glassmaking, showing everything from how glass is conserved to live stream demos .

At NYHS, you can find a vast collection of audio recordings including interviews with everyone from Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the Grateful Dead , as well as a list of podcasts about the American presidency . The site also has video interviews with figures including Billie Jean King , Tom Brokaw , and Ken Burns . Finally, their online exhibitions offer virtual access to past shows , too.

Attend the Opera

New York City's world-famous Metropolitan Opera is currently closed due to COVID-19 concerns. However, you can still get your opera fix from the safety of your home. For the duration of its closure, the Met will be streaming its past performances, one per day, for free online. Each show will air at 7:30 p.m. EST on the Met's website and apps , and will remain available to stream until 3:30 p.m. EST the next day.

Hear Celebrated Symphonies

As symphony halls around the world temporarily close their doors, more and more are playing to empty concert halls and streaming these performances online. The public radio station WKAR published an extensive list of all of the performances set to come. There are also many classical artists performing from their own living rooms and posting videos and links to live streams on Twitter, including New York Times critic Anthony Tommasini's recommendation, Igor Levit .

Additionally, the Berlin Philharmonic announced they will be making their " Digital Concert Hall " free for the duration of the pandemic. The service includes over 40 high definition live broadcasts and an archive spanning six decades, including some of the best conductors and musicians of our time. The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center also has an extensive free online video library and will, too, conduct live streams during this time.

If you'd like to listen to expertly curated classical music for an extended period of time, tune in to At Home with Gustavo , a partnership between the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Classical KUSC (Los Angeles) and Classical KDFC (San Francisco), and the famed conductor, Gustavo Dudamel. The series, which will include five, hour-long programs, offers the conductor’s curated musical selections along with his personal reflections on the music and his experience of our current moment.

Escape with Jewelry and Couture

Christie's, the world-renowned auction house, now offers virtual tours of many of their famed exhibits. This includes the Art Adorned collection , where classical paintings were paired with elaborate couture pieces from Dolce & Gabbana. If you're into gemstones (who isn't?), you'll need to take a look at the Maharajas & Mughal Magnificence exhibit . This collection features an unparalleled collection of royal Indian jewelry, including the massive "Mirror of Paradise" diamond ring, which sold for $6.5 million.

While you're exploring Christie's 3-D virtual tours, explore the vast Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller . There you can view masterpieces from iconic artists including Picasso, Monet, and Matisse. The collection sold for a total of $835.1 million, which is the highest ever for a single collection. You, however, can view it for free from the comfort of your own home.

Explore the Vatican

Vatican City, like most other public gathering spaces, is empty due to COVID-19. The Italian government issued a national lockdown, which also prohibits the Pope from making public appearances or giving mass to his usual large crowd. However, these restrictions do not have to keep you from admiring the Vatican's beauty.

The Musei Vaticani website offers 360° tours of the building's most famous areas . This, of course, includes a stunning virtual tour of Michelangelo's masterpiece, the Sistine Chapel . When you're done with that, you can view some of the Vatican's other popular sites, including the New Wing , Raphael's Rooms , and more.

In the mood for more? On YouTube, you can watch a livestream of the Vatican , which includes the Pope's daily mass.

See a Broadway Show in Your Living Room

Given that gatherings over 500 people are now prohibited, Broadway theaters closed last week . However, with the streaming service, BroadwayHD , you can see many of Broadway's hit shows from the comfort of your own home. The site offers a combination of past performances including Cats , The King and I , and Sound of Music , and filmed originals like Kinky Boots and 42 nd Street. You can get a one-week free trial (or subscribe for $8.99/month), so you don't have to miss out on the theater while social distancing.

Tour World-Famous Monuments

If outdoor heritage sites are more your thing, Google has that covered, too. First, the search engine has a wide variety of landmarks you can visit through their street view, including Stonehenge , Machu Picchu , the Roman Colosseum and the Egyptian Pyramids . The platform also recently launched the Heritage on the Edge initiative, which features five Unesco World Heritage sites under threat from climate change. The project includes 3D maps, augmented reality features, and expert opinions on how we can protect these treasured landmarks.

Join the Ivy League

Perhaps this time at home will inspire you to expand your mind. The Ivy League colleges are now offering over 450 online courses for free. From humanities to computer science, now may be the time to learn to code or open that book you've always intended to read. The full list of courses is available here .

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• Departure Details : Get to the Biblioteka imeni Lenina (Lenin's Library, Red Line) or Alexandrovsky Sad (Alexander Garden, Light Blue Line) metro station. Use any exit. Find the Kutafia Tower of the Kremlin. The guide .. read more

The Moscow Metro has a long history to it. Also, the city has an extremely beautiful subway. It is very well maintained and is also extremely decorated. Each station and spot has a different artistic aspect to it. On this tour, experience the efficiency of Moscow Metro.

• Roam around the Revolution Square, with magnificent sculptures of the Soviet people
• Visit the Kurskaya Station Lobby, the Hall of Fame of the WWII
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• See the artistic side of Novoslobodskaya , with the stained glass, although under the ground.

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Take our Moscow Metro Tour and discover why our subway is recognized as the most beautiful in the world!

"They used to have palaces for kings, we are going to build palaces for the people!" said one of the main architects of the Soviet subway.

With us you will see the most beautiful metro stations in Moscow built under Stalin: Komsomolskaya, Revolution square, Novoslobodskaya, Mayakovskaya. Our guide will tell fascinating stories and secrets hidden underground, urban legends and funny stories.

How many babies were born on the Moscow metro? Where is the secret Metro 2? How deep is the Moscow metro? And where did Stalin give his speech in November 1941? Join out Metro tour and find out!

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