Mira Lehr confronts pandemic with new Planetary Visions
Mira Lehr with one of her new works, Norweky, from the series Planetary Visions (acrylic, ink, burned and dyed Japanese paper, ignited fuses, and handwriting on canvas), 2020. Photo by Michael E. Fryd. From the collection of the Boca Raton Museum of Art.
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.- During the pandemic quarantines, the celebrated artist Mira Lehr created more work now than ever before in her six decades of artmaking. Her new series, called Planetary Visions, represents a bold departure for the artist. Her new exhibition has been extended through Feb. 6 due to strong sales and popular demand, with several new additional works by the artist being added to the show at Rosenbaum Contemporary gallery in Boca Raton, Florida. The gallery features online initiatives to allow art lovers from all over the world to experience Lehrs new work across digital platforms. This year also marks the 60th anniversary of Lehrs visionary founding of Con
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.- One of the headliners of the New York Philharmonics fall gala last month was Leonard Bernstein, leading his old orchestra in the overture to Candide. Yes, Bernstein died three decades ago. But since the gala, like so much else, was forced to go remote, the Philharmonic had some fun with the format, filming its current players performing to historical footage of Bernstein wielding his baton. The virtual gala had some advantages: it cost less to produce, with no catering, linen rentals and flower arrangements for a black-tie audience, and it reached some 90,000 people, while the concert hall holds around 2,700. But when it came to the bottom line, the picture was less rosy. The virtual event raised less than a third of what the gala concert took in last year: $1.1 million, down from $3.6 million, a vivid illustration of the steep challenge of raising money for the arts during a global pandemic. With