Stimulus package renews hope for struggling art and entertainment institutions
By: Amanda Brandeis
and last updated 2021-01-01 13:34:25-05
SAN DIEGO, Calif. â Places that entertain, teach and help us escape are disappearing in cities across the country.
While the latest COVID-19 relief package includes $15 billion in relief for entertainment and cultural institutions, some in the industry say survival is still uncertain.
âThere are very few stories of a museum going out of business only to be revived later, said Laura Lott. âAll museums, smallest and largest, are struggling at this time. Thereâs no one that has escaped the financial hardship.
Stimulus package renews hope for struggling art and entertainment institutions
By: Amanda Brandeis
and last updated 2021-01-01 13:34:25-05
SAN DIEGO, Calif. â Places that entertain, teach and help us escape are disappearing in cities across the country.
While the latest COVID-19 relief package includes $15 billion in relief for entertainment and cultural institutions, some in the industry say survival is still uncertain.
âThere are very few stories of a museum going out of business only to be revived later, said Laura Lott. âAll museums, smallest and largest, are struggling at this time. Thereâs no one that has escaped the financial hardship.
Best films and television of the year and the devastation of cultural life
As the year ends, it is not possible to discuss any aspect of artistic life, or life in general, in 2020 without central reference to the COVID-19 pandemic, which the various ruling elites have permitted to ravage the world’s population.
In late March, we noted that “the global health and economic calamity” was without precedent. “Whatever the outcome in the short term,” we wrote, “social life and consciousness will never return to their previous states. A Rubicon has been crossed. The existing order, in the eyes of tens of millions, will be seen from now on as illegitimate and an immediate threat to their continued existence.”
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