What did Covid really change about the art trade?

3 consensus truths for the fifth anniversary of New York's lockdown

• A Victorian-era poster for a stage production of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, courtesy of the Library of Congress

While Covid got busy killing millions of people around the globe in 2020, it was also suffocating most of what was left of our shared sense of reality. In the five years since the virus temporarily shut down public life in New York, it’s become c…