The Royal Academy today reopened to the public for the first time in almost four months.
From today, the Mayfair gallery, which opened to members last Thursday, will open four days a week between 11am and 4pm.
The space will open its galleries in phases — with its blockbuster show Picasso and Paper now open to the public once more.
Measures such as social distancing throughout, compulsory wearing of a face covering for staff and visitors, sanitisation stations and a one-way system have been put in place.
The exhibition originally opened in January. The Standard gave the show five stars, calling it "magnificent". "Few artists were so sensitive to the sensuous qualities of particular paper — old paper, laid Ingres paper, Japanese paper (the captions to this exhibition are usefully specific about them) — but he was the kind of man who’d make the most of anything he could lay his hands on."
The National Gallery and Whitechapel Gallery are among the arts institutions to have reopened. Tate will open both of its London galleries at the end of the month.
