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Cross
16th century
Northern Europe
Gold and Diamonds

This luxurious cross is one of a kind and not something just anybody can get their hands on. the figure is made up of gold, pearls, and gemstones and is quite elegant. The cross relates to the spirituality rising within people during the COVID-19 pandemic, as many began to feel hopeless and worrisome they felt as though they needed a higher power to rely on to help guide them through this troubling time and many did just that and relied on their faith to assure them salvation.

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/197146?searchField=All&amp;sortBy=Relevance&amp;ft=cross&amp;offset=0&amp;rpp=20&amp;pos=4

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Harlequin Family
ca. 1740-1745
French, Villeroy
Porcelain

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/207137?searchField=All&amp;sortBy=Relevance&amp;ft=family&amp;offset=0&amp;rpp=20&amp;pos=8

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Sewing Box
ca. 1840
China
Wood
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/7404?searchField=All&amp;sortBy=Relevance&amp;ft=sewing&amp;offset=0&amp;rpp=20&amp;pos=8

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Netsuke of Crouching Figure of a Skeleton
19th century
Japan
Wood

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/59662?searchField=All&amp;sortBy=Relevance&amp;ft=skeleton&amp;offset=20&amp;rpp=20&amp;pos=26

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Small Writing Desk
ca. 1768
France
Oak Woodwork

This writing desk is composed with oak and porcelain plaques, and has a past ownership in a royal family. The desk has a great amount of symbolism regarding the year 2020 as millions of school children and college students had to take to their own homes and work areas due to the unsafe conditions in large public spaces. This also meant that many workers around the world were directed to work from their offices at home. Along with working and doing school work many found comfort with journaling through their new experiences and taking a step back from a fast paced life while sitting at their desk.

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/231857?searchField=All&amp;sortBy=Relevance&amp;ft=small+writing+desk&amp;offset=0&amp;rpp=20&amp;pos=2

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The Incurable
April 4, 1784
British, London
Hand-colored etching

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/392685?searchField=All&amp;sortBy=Relevance&amp;when=A.D.+1600-1800&amp;ft=politics&amp;offset=20&amp;rpp=20&amp;pos=31

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Sheet of Studies With a Woman Lying Ill in Bed
c. 1639-1642
Amsterdam, Netherlands, Europe
Etching Print

https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/29329/

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Seated Figure
13th century
Mali, Inland Niger Delta region
Terracotta

This antique ceramic sculpture is the representation of most of the human population's emotions near the beginning of the year 2020. Whenever the outbreak of COVID-19 began heightening it was also heightening the anxiety within so many people around the world. People's anxiety grew as they worried about their health as well as the fate of their lives for the months to come during this unusual time.

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/314362?searchField=All&sortBy=Relevance&ft=anxiety&offset=0&rpp=20&pos=2

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Mirror

ca. 1680 - 1700
German, Danzig
Dark-stained pine; replaced mirror glass

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/204791?searchField=All&sortBy=Relevance&ft=mirror&offset=0&rpp=20&pos=9

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This Kunstkammer art exhibition "The Cabinet of 2020" is a representation in the form of art of the year 2020. This type of exhibition is called a "Cabinet of Curiosities" as it is filled with several forms of art, from religious figures to sketches full of emotion, the goal of this specific exhibit is to portray the curiosities that landed upon people all across the world in the year 2020.
This Cabinet of 2020 will forever be a keepsake to remember the wrath of the COVID-19 pandemic, its abnormality and the ways it effected the human race emotionally, physically, and spiritually.
The contents of this exhibit in their form are symbolic in the way events have occurred throughout the year, unorganized and all at once and I hope that the emotion is recognized from the viewer.
In general the Kunstkammer exhibits are compilations of remarkable objects which often symbolizes the curator's knowledge, which makes this exhibit that much more fitting due to the extraordinary and mysterious year 2020 has been thus far.

https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/kuns/hd_kuns.htm