The Hirshhorn Museum is collecting video diaries of artists in self-isolation

Museums across the world are documenting the global Covid-19 pandemic in various ways, from commissioning field photographers to acquiring objects that illustrate everyday life under lockdown. Washington DC's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden has now launched the "Artists in Quarantine" initiative to capture the responses of contemporary international artists to the health crisis in their own voices.

This growing archive will be released as a series of short, diary-style videos from almost 100 fellow artists, including Shirin Neshat, Christine Sun Kim, Ragnar Kjartansson and Tony Oursler.