World Health Organization joins art world to launch global campaign confronting mental health toll of pandemic
A still from Ragnar Kjartansson's 2018 video Figures in Landscape (Friday), which will be offered at auction by Christie's on 25 March in support of the Healing Arts campaign The World Health Organization and a coalition of cultural partners will next week launch a “call to action” to galvanise the arts in countering the mental health crisis of isolation, anxiety and bereavement caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Known as Healing Arts 2021, the global campaign kicks off with a week of virtual talks and events on 22-26 March in collaboration with University College London, Tate gal...
Source: theartnewspaper.com