社交受限境况下的“云端美术馆”观察

编者语：

随着COVID-19 疫情在全球范围内蔓延，世界各地的美术馆宣布关闭展厅，但并未停止向公众传达艺术讯息的职责，纷纷将视野调转至在线方式，虚拟展览、网络直播、社交媒体互动……往日的补足性传播方案在此刻成为最重要的手段，进一步催化了传统美术馆与互联网技术的深度融合，以及由此带来的对“美术馆”全新形态的讨论。以藏品与空间为核心的美术馆或许以此为契机，对更广阔的定义与功能发起探索，艺术也应该在更加丰富的媒介与渠道中寻求新的表达。

借此专题，本刊邀请艺术行业工作者、学者们共同参与进行写作，从各地美术馆对此次疫情的诸多回应出发，从美术馆职能、媒体传播、网络艺术等各方面展开话题，探讨因此次疫情而紧急到来、而美术馆也终将要面对的挑战。（文/王静）

INTRODUCTION:

With the COVID-19 pandemic spreading globally, museums announced their temporary closure, but they still carried on their responsibility of spreading art news to the public-via the Internet. Virtual exhibitions, live video streaming, social media campaigns… the complementary communication plans in the past days have now become the most important tools, which further activates the deep integration of traditional art museums and Internet technologies, and stimulates discussions about the new forms of 'art museums'. Art museums that traditionally focused on collection and space may see this as an opportunity to explore the wider definition and more functions of art museum. Art, too, should seek new expression in richer media and channels.

Under this theme, Art Museum magazine invites art practitioners and scholars to write articles based on the response of art museums to COVID-19 around the world, to reflect on the multiple facets of art museum including its functions, media communications and Internet Art, and to probe into the challenges that art museums face in the urgent pandemic crisis. (Text by Wang Jing)