New York’s Museum of Modern Art, MoMA, reopens August 27

Dorothea Lange’s photographs are waiting to be contemplated by impatient masked visitors. New York’s MoMA reopens on August 27, proof that the American economic and cultural capital is regaining some color after five months of paralysis due to the pandemic.

In a statement, the museum, already closed for four months in 2019 for a major renovation, said it would open online reservations, every Friday from August 21, for visits scheduled the following week. Entrances will be free for the first month and the iconic institution will be open from Tuesday to Sunday, Monday being reserved for museum members.

Do not miss: the exhibition Words and pictures dedicated to the American photographer Dorothea Lange (until September 19), which brings together some of her lesser-known photos or On moderno, a journey to the heart of Latin American abstract art.

Strict health measures

Wearing a mask compulsory, check-room closed, social distancing and direction of visit to be respected, the MoMA will meet visitors in supervised sanitary conditions. The reception capacity will be limited, in accordance with the directives announced Friday by the governor of the State of New York. The latter had indicated last week that museums and art galleries could reopen as of August 24, with staggered entries and a limit of 25%. The Met and the Whitney Museum then announced their next reopening, on August 29 and September 3, respectively.

New York has adopted an extremely cautious deconfinement strategy in the face of the coronavirus, which has driven tourists from this city-world and emptied the business districts of Manhattan, a majority of “white-collar workers” now teleworking. After more than 23,600 deaths recorded in New York itself, mainly in March-April, the State of New York and its governor Andrew Cuomo now present themselves as a model of control of the epidemic. Its contamination rate was 0.71% on Monday, the lowest in the United States, according to Cuomo.

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