THE NEW YORK TIMES
By Su-Hyun Lee and Brett Sokol
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| Visitors didn’t always observe social distancing when they went to the Lehmann Maupin gallery opening in Seoul last week for the artist Billy Childish. The show, “Wolves, Sunsets and The Self,” drew a chic black-clad crowd. Woohae Cho for The New York Times |
SEOUL — Art galleries remain shuttered around the world but in South Korea, they reopen — with contact tracing and masks. Welcome to the post-Covid-19 world. “I wouldn’t say things are totally back to normal,” explained Passion Lim, taking in the scene on Thursday at the opening for Billy Childish paintings at the Lehmann Maupin gallery. “But it’s a start,” he added. Indeed, if you ignored the face masks on about half the attending crowd, it might have been opening night at a blue-chip art gallery anywhere — anywhere before the coronavirus pandemic, that is. Now, as a steady stream of Mercedes sedans pulled up to the valet, disgorging their fashion-forward passengers, South Korea’s return to business as usual seemed almost surreal.[
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| Visitors were required to write down their personal information for contact tracing, if needed, at the opening exhibition. Woohae Cho for The New York Times |
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