The Art World, From Your Couch: How COVID-19 Reinvented the Art World
Artists around the world are adapting to shutdowns by swapping physical performance spaces for virtual ones.
With audiences isolating at home due to COVID-19 restrictions; such as staying 6-feet apart and crowds of no more than 10, the art industry has had to adapt since the art industry operates exclusively from public spaces with large audiences. Due to COVID-19, museums, concerts, movie theaters, and other forms of entertainment have been canceled and closed, which has forced the art industry to reinvent itself online.
This has allowed audiences/viewers to enjoy and be entertained by artists and singers from their couches.
Musicians and singers have live-streamed concerts from their homes, which allows online audiences the ability to show their appreciation with likes, shares, and comments.
The US entertainment site Billboard compiled a list of artists and bands who are live-streaming shows “to share some musical joy during these trying times.”
Other ways to enjoy the arts without leaving home are the many art museums; such as the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Guggenheim, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) will allow you to visit their collections virtually.
The arts help people to cope in dark times and that is definitely true during this pandemic that prevents us from experiencing art and culture in the traditional sense of attending concerts and art exhibits surrounded by friends and strangers. Artists, singers, musicians, and actors offer us hope through their work.
With audiences isolating at home due to COVID-19 restrictions; such as staying 6-feet apart and crowds of no more than 10, the art industry has had to adapt since the art industry operates exclusively from public spaces with large audiences. Due to COVID-19, museums, concerts, movie theaters, and other forms of entertainment have been canceled and closed, which has forced the art industry to reinvent itself online.
This has allowed audiences/viewers to enjoy and be entertained by artists and singers from their couches.
Musicians and singers have live-streamed concerts from their homes, which allows online audiences the ability to show their appreciation with likes, shares, and comments.
The US entertainment site Billboard compiled a list of artists and bands who are live-streaming shows “to share some musical joy during these trying times.”
Other ways to enjoy the arts without leaving home are the many art museums; such as the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Guggenheim, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) will allow you to visit their collections virtually.
The arts help people to cope in dark times and that is definitely true during this pandemic that prevents us from experiencing art and culture in the traditional sense of attending concerts and art exhibits surrounded by friends and strangers. Artists, singers, musicians, and actors offer us hope through their work.
Now more than ever, art matters.
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