Photographic Guide: How not to do Social Distancing via Artworks

By Rushil Pradhan, 10 April, 2020

Parties, family gatherings, operas, sports and many others, the art world is filled with photos of humans not following social distancing.

These all pictures remind us of the time when we all could gather without fear.

Here are few artworks that will bring a strange weird feeling to your mind.

Spencer Tunick, Space, NYC (1999), from the “Reaction Zone” series
Photograph by: the artist

Nicole Eisenman, Another Green World (2015)
Artwork by: the artist and Anton Kern Gallery.

Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Wedding Dance in the Open Air (1607–14)
Photograph by: Dominic Brown

Lubaina Himid, Naming the Money (2004), detail.
Photograph by: Stuart Whipps

Tom Friedman, Cocktail Party (2015). Photo ©Tom Friedman, c
Artwork by: The artist, Luhring Augustine, New York, and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London

Andreas Gursky, Board of Trade II (1998).
Photograph by: Tate Museums

Florine Stettheimer Spring Sale at Bendel’s, 1921 Oil on canvas, 50 x 40 in. (127 x 101.6 cm) Philadelphia Museum of Art, Gift of Miss Ettie Stettheimer.

Red Grooms, The Bus (1995) at Frieze New York from Marlborough gallery, for sale for $550,000
Photograph by: Sarah Cascone.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Bal du moulin de la Galette (1876)
Photograph by: the Musée d’Orsay, Paris.