For the “Art is Essential” show, I created my own take on all of the “plague journals” that artists are making. From the new weekly mainstay in the Sunday New York Times to many of my friends’ Instagram feeds, “plague journals” (and “protest signs”) will be the way history remembers 2020. We all seem to be counting. Counting the days, counting the stages of re-opening, and counting the number of Zoom meetings. Lots of counting.