Engagement with the arts takes on a higher significance during unsettled times, helping with mental strain and unleashing the imagination to escape, innovate and create new ways of being. The established contribution of creative industries to the field of global health combined with the shock of COVID-19 provides an opportunity to reinvent the social role…
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Most of the crises I’ve lived through during my more than 50 years on this planet haven’t really ended. The AIDS pandemic of the 1980s and ’90s continues, especially among populations without access to expensive, lifesaving treatments. The moral rot of the Vietnam War and the reckless corruption of the Nixon years now seem mere…
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We zero in on one moment in New York City’s cultural calendar that’s been wiped clean — what it means, what it looks like, what it cost and what’s ahead. Ah, New York. The city where, this coming weekend, Hugh Jackman will make mischief out of marching bands in Broadway’s “The Music Man”; Anna Netrebko…
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (UK Public Affairs) — From a celebrated portrait of the nation’s first president George Washington to a drawing of George Floyd, University of Kentucky Art Museum’s “This is America*” examines the nation’s story — the good, the bad and the ugly — as the nation approaches the most divisive presidential election in recent history. “Originally planned to coincide with…
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Museums are experiencing a cultural reckoning over race, identity and historical legacy. Black arts workers have been central in calling on museums to be more inclusive of the communities they serve. Erin Christovale, associate curator at the Hammer Museum, focuses on experimental moving images and visual art. She has helped give emerging Black artists the…
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Indianapolis will soon feel what it’s like to walk inside — and even listen to and smell — paintings in a new experience that takes up a space almost equal to half a football field. The Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields announced Wednesday that it will open The Lume Indianapolis, a cinema-like installation that will comprise…
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Covid-19 has supercharged all things virtual, propelling industries like retail well into the future. According to IBM’s 2020 U.S. Retail Index report, the pandemic has accelerated the shift to digital shopping by roughly five years. Augmented Reality (AR) applications have been on the rise with virtual “try-before-you-buy” experiences ranging from previewing furniture and products in your…
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The controversial executive order issued by the US president three years ago continues to affect artists from countries throughout the world In the run-up to the US presidential election this November, the New York-based human rights non-profit Artistic Freedom Initiative (AFI) is drawing attention to one of President Donald Trump’s most controversial acts, Executive Order…
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As US art institutions consider how they welcome visitors and guard their health in a vastly changed environment, the coronavirus pandemic is spurring a deeper rethinking of future museum design. After a nationwide shutdown in March, many museums have gingerly reopened with stringent social distancing rules that profoundly affect the flow of people through entrances…
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Gordon Cheung advises younger artists to ensure that they establish contracts with galleries A persistent problem for artists is getting paid, and with the global pandemic this is only likely to get worse, as galleries plead poverty or even go out of business. A case in point is a ten-year dispute between a British-Chinese artist,…
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