'Pressure leads to unity': celebrating art in the time of coronavirus

A new exhibition features art made during quarantine as well as pre-existing pieces that speak to a tumultuous yearIn 1918, when the world was plagued by the Spanish flu, artists tried to make sense of the world around them. Edvard Munch made lonely self-portraits, while Egon Schiele drew his mentor Gustav Klimt on his deathbed. Photographers captured empty streets and ghostly cityscapes, like Morton Schamberg’s rooftop views from 1917, to hospitals shot by the California photojournalist,