Of the sixty-nine issues of Listening to Art published (the latest came out two days ago), due to the COVID-19 closures only five works of art are publicly accessible now. If you’re missing the experience of being in a gallery, audio field recordings will bring it back to you.
These locations are closed (the counts are how many recordings were made there):
- National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa): 13
- Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto): 12
- Louvre (Paris): 5
- Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo): 4
- Museum of Modern Art (New York): 4
- Galleria Borghese (Rome): 3
- Musée d’Orsay (Paris): 3
- Royal Academy of Arts (London): 3
- National Gallery of Ireland (Dublin): 2
- Whitney Museum of American Art (New York): 2
- Wallace Collection (London): 2
- Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna (Rome): 2
- Capitoline Museums (Rome): 2
- Arts and Letters Club of Toronto: 1
- Musée National d’Art Moderne (Paris): 1
- Palazzo Barberini (Rome): 1
- York University Libraries (Toronto): 1
These locations are still accessible:
- outside the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto): 2
- Church of Saint-Sulpice (Paris): 1
- Toronto City Hall (Toronto): 1
- Toronto Pearson International Airport (Toronto): 1
Nuit Blanche (Toronto) is a one-night-a-year event; who knows if it will happen this fall. There are also two private collections which are also closed to visitors.