![]() ![]() The museum is also encouraging the purchase of reserved time tickets on its website, which staggers visits so that the museum is never too full. It’s operating at 25% capacity, masks are required at all times indoors and out, and 6-feet physical distancing remains in place. Denk, director of external affairs for the museum. The museum itself is “taking it slow,” and easing into the return, said Leslie C. When reservations opened up, the Duarte family was all over it, getting tickets immediately. (Photo by Dean Musgrove, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG) At right is ‘Portrait of a Lady’ by Johannes Corneliszoon Verspronck. A woman gets a close look at ‘Portrait of a Bearded Man in a Wide-Brimmed Hat’ by Rembrandt van Rijin. ![]() Visitors are back enjoying the Norton Simon Museum on May 27, 2021. “This is our staple,” Jessic Duarte said, emphasiing the “a-r-t” in the middle of her family’s last name. His mother, herself an art teacher, whose teaching leans heavily on the kind of work exhibited in places like Norton Simon, is a way of life, highly missed in a year and half of pandemic shutdowns. Welcome back to the Norton Simon - which had been closed since March 2020 - when COVID-19 forced shutdowns of museums across the world, shutting off the masses from seeing the great works up close and in-person. In another, greats of the 17th and 18th centuries. In another direction, 14th- through 16th-century art. Down the hall, Edgar Degas’ “Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen,” the sculpture that still mesmerizes inside a dimly lighted room. To the left as you walk in, Vincent van Gogh’s “Portrait of a Peasant,” its gaze ever more ready for a post-pandemic audience. You know the cast of characters, if you’ve ever been inside. Picasso’s famous abstract wasn’t the only one welcoming back the masses at the Colorado Boulevard museum during its first full week of reopening after being closed during the coronavirus crisis. Inside her bold black lines, vibrant colors that beckoned on a wall inside a spacious gallery hall at the Norton Simon Museum. Still hanging around on Friday, May 28, after a year and a half of a pandemic: “Woman with a Book,” Pablo Picasso’s 1932 oil on canvas. ![]()
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