The future of the arts: ‘The world is coming into visual art on a human scale’

Our art critic longs to see paintings in person once more, and looks to a future where exhibitions may run longer and borrow less from abroadSusannah Clapp: ‘Online theatre is a skeleton of the thing itself’For three months straight I have stared and stared at an image fixed to my fridge. It is a postcard of The Little Street by Vermeer. The scene is so unassuming – rinsed cobbles, whitewashed walls, one woman stitching in a doorway, another cleaning in a side alley, the Dutch