“Although its museums have been closed since February, commercial galleries were allowed to remain open. Several have done so, some throughout the crisis, putting South Korea alongside Taiwan and Hong Kong as one of the few places to have an art scene still running, or at least limping, throughout this extraordinary spring.” – The Art Newspaper
Tag: 04.20.20
Coffee Culture, The Business
Coffee is sold less to provide an individual with pleasure than to support an industry with a skillfully primed audience. – The New Yorker
For Quarantine, A Salute To The Literature Of Idleness
Dwight Garner: “With so many hours to obliterate, I’ve found myself turning to the experts. I’ve pushed away the Tootsie Roll wrappers and empty root beer cans and gathered around my bed what I will call my library of indolence,” featuring such heroic figures as Bartleby the Scrivener and Oblomov. – The New York Times
Can Music Can Boost Your Immune System? Yes, Evidently
“Sound like quackery? It’s not. Numerous studies … have found that both performing and listening to music can have a significant impact on the immune system” — including one review that found levels of Immunoglobulin A to be “particularly responsive to music.” Jeremy Reynolds reports. – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Dancing At Home? ABT Ships Dance Floors To Its Dancers
ABT polled the dancers to find out how many would be interested. Then they placed a single order for 68 pieces, paid for it all and shipped them out to company members isolating everywhere from Australia to Hawaii. – Dance Magazine
Streaming Yes, But The Tech Still Has A Way To Go
When it comes to live music streaming, and in particular, the capacity to play together real time over the internet, the technology could be said to be in a nascent state — still very much under construction. – Ludwig Van
We Like To Blame Cities For Our Ills. Is This Fair?
The demonization of density harkens to the heyday of urbanization in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. American civic leaders and reformers of the time embraced the notion that urban social problems — disease, poverty, immorality — stemmed from the physical environments of cities. – CityLab
It Starts: Cash-Strapped NYC Proposes Cutting Cultural Affairs Budget
Now facing an immense shortfall in tax revenue—about $7.4 billion—the city has proposed a revised budget for the next fiscal year that would reduce the overall budget by $3.4 billion, compared to last year’s adopted budget. Among those cuts is a budgetary reduction of $10.6 million for the Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA). – ARTnews
Distance Learning Isn’t Working. And There’s An Important Reason Why
The situation into which almost every parent in America has now suddenly and unwillingly been thrust could not be more different. One-size-fits-all education barely works in a classroom, but it is completely unmanageable with kids spread out across their various households working independently. – The Atlantic
Survey Of LA Art Galleries: A Third Could Close, Most To Be Smaller
A quarter of the respondents, nine of 35, said they are facing the permanent closure of their spaces in 2020 if the situation doesn’t improve quickly. An additional five galleries, or 14%, say closure is a possibility. The numbers are in keeping with a far more comprehensive study issued by the Comité Professionnel des Galeries d’Art, a French trade organization, which estimates that one-third of French galleries could shut down before the end of the year because of the steep losses in revenue. – Los Angeles Times