Tag: Coronavirus

Creative groups in East Sutherland have collaborated to produce a new booklet showcasing artwork and writing from members.Entitled Creative in Lockdown, the book is the outcome of a partnership between members of Art 'n Blether, and online creative writing groups, run by Helmsdale based Connecting Communities.The front cover of the new book which contains contributions from members of Connecting Communities' art and writing groups.It ...

India, the world’s second most populous nation, is in the throes of a deadly coronavirus surge that has claimed the lives of more than 4,000 people in just the past 24 hours. And according to reports from the health ministry, the number of daily infections has exceeded 300,000 every day for the past two weeks. Now, the arts community is rallying to support overwhelmed ...

More cultural institutions continued to emerge from COVID-19 closures, with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Natural History Museum both welcoming visitors again on Thursday, April 1. Capacity will be limited to 25% at both museums until Monday, when the county will move into the orange tier of the state’s COVID-19 economic blueprint, allowing museums to boost capacity to 50%. “The ...

A collection of children's drawings made during the pandemic illustrates the mental toll the pandemic is taking on Canadian youth, says the researcher behind a project analyzing their artwork. Many of the submissions by kids and teenagers on childart.ca depict people alone, haunted by shadowy spectres, or worse, their own thoughts. Collectively, the images paint a stark picture of how the trials of young ...

NYC has recorded more than 25,000 deaths since the start of the pandemic with an estimated 1,000 thousand healthcare workers among them. One organization is paying tribute to the lives lost through art. The Hero Art Project creates portraits of doctors, nurses, and other healthcare staff who died fighting the coronavirus. Arthouse.nyc is pairing family members of those workers with an artist who creates ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – The 33rd annual Las Olas Art Fair that was scheduled for this weekend has been canceled amid concerns over the spread of COVID-19, event organizers announced Thursday.The art fair was supposed to be held Saturday and Sunday on Las Olas Boulevard, but event producer Howard Alan Events decided to cancel the art fair as the county’s positivity rate remains above ...

OTTAWA — The fraught year of 2020 may be over, but experts warn the dawn of a new year doesn’t mean an end to the troubles caused by the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.Patients in multiple Canadian hotspots are flooding hospitals at an alarming rate and expected to arrive in even greater numbers in the weeks to come, doctors and health centres said ...

SAN ANTONIO – A big part of the fabric of our city is our culture and arts, and some of our most precious museums are at risk because of the financial impacts from the pandemic.The San Antonio Museum of Art, otherwise known as SAMA, is famous world-wide, visited by presidents of foreign countries and even the king and queen of Spain in 2018. For ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Jane Alexander, the chief digital information officer for the Cleveland Museum of Art, was jazzed.She and staff members staged a dry run last March for immersive digital displays designed for an upcoming exhibition on the restoration of the museum’s monumental Cambodian sculpture of the Hindu god Krishna saving humanity from a deluge by holding a mountain overhead like a giant umbrella.“The ...

From the moment the coronavirus spilled out of China and spread around the world, the great hope for the return of normal life lay with safe and effective vaccines. While wearing masks and washing hands helped to reduce the flood of infections, they would never be enough to hold back the tide. Social distancing – a phrase that does nothing to convey the hardship ...