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Denver’s COVID-19 Arts & Culture Relief Fund gets ready for a second round of emergency funding and seeks additional support
December 21, 2020
As the year comes to a close, the pandemic continues to hit Denver’s arts and creative sector especially hard. In the early fall, Bonfils-Stanton Foundation and The Denver Foundation awarded nearly $1.2 million to 41 organizations thanks to the
COVID-19 Arts & Culture Relief Fund. Now, the Foundations are gearing up for a second round of emergency funding.
“The arts are a critical component of the Denver metro community–bringing us joy, belonging, vibrancy. As a sector, they also employ and generate thousands of jobs in our community, and the truth is, they are experiencing a deep economic crisis due to COVID-19,” says Bonifls-Stanton Foundation President & CEO, Gary Steuer. “Right now, many of these groups are barely hanging on, while at the same time, wor
Arthur Jafa Has a Wild Theory About Jeff Koons – The
New Yorker gave filmmaker and artist Arthur Jafa the profile treatment. Among the oddball art-historical theories floated by the influential artist: his tongue-in-cheek idea that Jeff Koons is actually “a very light-skinned Black guy passing for white.” As evidence, he cites Koons’s vacuum-cleaner sculptures, which he argues “refer to Black women” and “domestic workers.” He also insists the artist’s pair of floating basketballs “are testicles, connoting everything from castration to Black sexual prowess.” (
Inside the Latest Deaccessioning Controversy – In justifying a big sell-off from its collection, the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach said many first-rate artists are “overrepresented” in its holdings. Such “cockamamie” reasoning for deaccessioning 59 artworks is sketchy at best, writes
Back to the theatre
Friday 11 December 2020
A choir will perform this year s Believe concert and will comprise St Joseph s Convent, CIC Boys and the Eastern Chorale. -
THERE’S a magical exchange between performers and audience. Performers let go of self and adopt a persona on stage, all to entertain and amuse an audience ready to be thrilled with their acting, song and dance.
Audience feedback fuels the performer, as their applause, gasps and spontaneous laughter fuel the artist’s love of the stage.
For eight months these performers got behind a camera, were shown on screen, singing to an empty room with no resonance, missing the energy that comes from hearing an audience’s love live.