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‘Politicians Always Profit From Fear’: Ai Weiwei on How the Coronavirus Pandemic Will Heighten Political Turmoil, and the Role Artists Should Play

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No One Wanted to Buy Our Pies: A History of The Copley Galleries, Beverly Hills, 1948–49

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80 LA Galleries Band Together To Stay Afloat

THE PLAGUE

Why American Life Went On As Normal During The Hong Kong Flu Killer Pandemic Of 1969
“That generation approached viruses with calm, rationality and intelligence,” he said. “We left disease mitigation to medical professionals, individuals and families, rather than politics, politicians and government.”

The Social Distancing Backlash Is Here

This Is How Bali Escaped Being Virus Hot Spot With Local Traditions

Another Ring of Hell: Sinking and Virus Weary Venice Threatened by Chemical Cloud

Famed Artist Olia Lialina: Solo Show Forced To Move It Online And It Didn’t Bother Her Much: “The Internet Is My Primary Location. It Is Where I Meet My Audience.”

The Agony and the Ecstasy: Britain's Young Artists Had A Hard Time Before The Pandemic. What Will Happen To Them Now?

First Responder: How Victorian artists saw Florence Nightingale

Jean Arp and the Modern Artists Who Made The Most Of Isolation

The Pandemic Has Turned Los Angeles into a Walking City

Disney’s Closed Parks Are Bleeding Billions, but the Company’s Brand Is as Strong as Ever

California Galleries Flout Stay-At-Home Orders, Declaring Art Essential

A 1665 HISTORICAL MUST READ: WITH FASCINATING PARALLELS TO TODAY

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JOURNAL of the PLAGUE YEAR
by Daniel Defoe

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II.

But I must go back again to the beginning of this surprising time. While the fears of the people were young, they were increased strangely by several odd accidents which, put altogether, it was really a wonder the whole body of the people did not rise as one man and abandon their dwellings, leaving the place as a space of ground designed by Heaven for an Akeldama, doomed to be destroyed from the face of the earth, and that all that would be found in it would perish with it. I shall name but a few of these things; but sure they were so many, and so many wizards and cunning people propagating them, that I have often wondered there was any (women especially) left behind.

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Architects, not Architecture: Mario Botta

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Art Report Today Podcast: Art Critic and Curator Paddy Johnson Discusses Art Spaces, Artist Statements and an Online Presence, Host Michael Delgado

Zoom With A View: How Lockdown Art Classes Are Booming Online

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Part 3: Artists Arise! Our Fertile Landscape

Juliette Binoche, Joaquin Phoenix, Cate Blanchett and 200 Artists and Scientists Urge Society to Reconsider Its Value Systems and Look Beyond Consumerism‘

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The Timely Resonance of PBS’s Asian Americans

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The Atlantic: Internet Speech Will Never Go Back to Normal; Big Brothers Gang-Up

ArtForum: On Cultural Democracy And The New Deal Art Programs

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Contemporary Art Needs Big Gatherings and Gossip to Survive

Always the First to Go! Cities Begin Cutting Arts Budgets

The First Quarantine Concert Foretells Music's Dystopian Future

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Abel Ferarra's New Autobiographical "Tomasso"

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Disney Hints at a Shifting Theatrical Strategy, but Not on VOD

Wes Anderson Drops His Quarantine Watch List: 11 Favorite Films to See

Hollywood Giants Plan More Cost-Cutting, Brace for Pandemic Recession

Coming Soon: Theaters Go Back to the Future With $2 Retro Blockbusters

A Year Without Cannes: Why It Hurts to Lose a Festival That Can’t Be Replaced

Prepare For The Death & Rebirth of Hollywood

Emptied By Virus, Lithuanian Airport Turns Into Drive-In Cinema

‘The Ghost Of Peter Sellers’ Review: Behind-The-Scenes Look At A Disastrous Movie Shoot Is Honest And Fascinating

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