'news.artnet.com: The directors of London’s biggest art museums, like many of their colleagues across Europe and North America before them, were faced with little choice but to abruptly close their institutions last week as the global health crisis deepened. But unlike their peers in several European countries and American states, who were told to shutter by their governments, the UK’s arts institutions had to make that tough call themselves.
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Nothing prepares you for this is definitely a statement that can be attributed to almost every single thing that we are facing right now- as people, as artists, as arts organizations, as a world. Organizations do have crisis management in place, as Hartwig Fischer talks about, but this is a crisis that is harder to anticipate, one that is constantly changing and evolving with less predictability. We could not imagine the magnitude of this situation, as it is one that we haven’t experienced in today’s modernized world. We know how to deal with natural disaster- we rally, we clean, and we get back to moving. We know how to deal with war- we have been dealing with that since the beginning of time. We know how to deal with economic recessions- the economy peaks and falls, that is literally the basis of economics. But a pandemic, and even more so, an almost undetectable pandemic that exponentially grows day by day, can’t be anticipated through a crisis plan.
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