What Does Social Distancing NOT Look Like? Here Are 31 Artworks That Show People Who are Definitely Doing It Wrong

Georges Seurat, A Sunday Afternoon
on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884–86). Helen Birch
Bartlett Memorial Collection. Courtesy the Art Institute of
Chicago.

Robert Longo, White Riot
(1982). Courtesy of the Broad, Los Angeles.

Mary Cassatt, In the Loge
(1878). Courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Thomas Friedman, Cocktail Party
(2015). Courtesy the artist and Art Basel.

Spencer Tunick, Space, NYC
(1999), from the “Reaction Zone” series. Photo courtesy of the
artist.

Paula Rego, The Dance (1998).
Courtesy the artist and Marlborough Gallery.

Andreas Gursky, Board of Trade II
(1998). Courtesy of Tate Museums.

Alex Prager, Face in the Crowd
(2013). © 2013, Alex Prager.

Jan Steen, Beware of Luxury
(1663). Courtesy Kunsthistorisches Museum.

Weegee, Their First Murder
(1945). Photo courtesy of the Getty Museum, Los Angeles.

The Rochester Bestiary (1225–1250).
Courtesy of the British Library.

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

William-Adolphe Bouguereau, The Youth
of Bacchus (1884). Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

Allison Zuckerman, Altarpiece
(2018). Courtesy of the artist and Kravets Wehby Gallery.

Florine Stettheimer, Spring Sale at
Bendel’s (1921). Courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art,
gift of Miss Ettie Stettheimer.

Celeste Dupuy-Spencer, Dutchess
County Border (Matriarchs of the 90’s Line), 2018. Courtesy of
Nino Mier Gallery.

Diego Rivera, Flower Festival: Feast
of Santa Anita (1931). Courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art,
New York; gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, 1936. ©2020 Banco de
México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F./Artists
Rights Society (ARS), New York/The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by
SCALA/Art Resource, New York.

Edward Coley Burne-Jones, A Vision
of Angels (1873). Photo by George P. Landow, courtesy of St.
Paul’s within the Walls, Rome.

Pieter Brueghel the
Younger, Wedding Dance in the Open Air (1607–14). Photo
©Holburne Museum Photograph by Dominic Brown.

Lubaina Himid, Naming the Money
(2004), detail. Photo by Stuart Whipps, courtesy the artist,
Hollybush Gardens and National Museums Liverpool, International
Slavery Museum. Navigation Charts installation view, 2017
© Spike Island, Bristol.

Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles
d’Avignon (1907). Photo courtesy Wikipedia.

Myrlande Constant, Rasanbleman soupe
tout eskòt yo (2019) Courtesy of Faena Art, photo: Oriol
Tarridas.

Carolee Schneemann, Meat Joy
(1964). Photo courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art.

Peter Paul Rubens, The
Calydonian Boar Hunt (circa 1611–12). Courtesy of the J.
Paul Getty Museum.

Raphael, The School of Athens
(1509–11). Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

Marina Abramović and Ulay,
Imponderabilia (1977). Photo courtesy of Marina
Abramović/Sean Kelly Galery, New York.

Nicolas Poussin, The Abduction
of the Sabine Women (1634–35). Courtesy of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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

Sandro Botticelli, Primavera
(circa 1482). Courtesy of the Uffizi Gallery, Florence.

Canyon Castator, Tipping
Point (2016). Courtesy of Postmasters.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Bal du moulin
de la Galette (1876). Photo courtesy of the Musée d’Orsay,
Paris.

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