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$38.5 Million Has Been Allocated to LA Arts Recovery

2/17/2021

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By Sarah Rose Sharp. From Hyperallergic. Published 2/16/2021 
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California has been hit particularly hard by COVID-19, with restrictions and shutdowns affecting most areas of social, political, public, and private life — especially in the state’s highest population centers, such as Los Angeles. Among the many ways in which LA businesses have been impacted by pandemic policies and complications, the arts have especially suffered; this is devastating in a city where one in every seven jobs is in a creative field, according to the 2020 Otis Report on the Creative Economy. Los Angeles is currently the largest city in the nation whose museums have yet to reopen even temporarily since the pandemic struck last March, according to an article in the New York Times — while the small- and mid-range arts and culture organizations (a few of which, including galleries, have been allowed to reopen) typically have even smaller reserves upon which to draw in uncertain times. 

“Los Angeles’s arts organizations embody the diverse cultures of our region and are critical to making us one of the most vibrant, innovative, and collaborative arts communities in the nation,” said Joan Weinstein, director of the Getty Foundation, in a press release announcing the 
LA Arts Recovery Fund. “By organizing the LA Arts Recovery Fund, we’re mirroring their commitment to collaboration, coming together to provide what we hope will be meaningful support at a time when the very existence of these organizations is threatened. In the process, we hope to help create a more equitable and inclusive arts sector for the future.” Last year, the Getty also jumpstarted a $10 million relief fund for museums and visual arts organizations.

This year’s fund is an unprecedented public-private initiative to connect dozens of funders from national philanthropic organizations with LA-based arts and cultural nonprofits, in an effort to preserve jobs and retain the cultural capital of LA’s creative workforce. Los Angeles County arts and cultural organizations with annual operating budgets of $10 million and below prior to March 2020 are invited to apply for funding support.

The fund has raised $38.5 million so far to devote to this effort, and is continuing to solicit new donors in a push to reach $50 million. Supporters of the fund include the Ahmanson Foundation; Vladimir & Araxia Buckhantz Foundation; California Community Foundation; Ford Theatre Foundation/LA County Department of Arts and Culture; J. Paul Getty Trust; Jerry and Terri Kohl; Robert Lovelace and Alicia Miñana; the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; the Music Man Foundation; the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation; the Perenchio Family Fund; Snap Foundation; and Sony Pictures Entertainment & Sony Global Relief Fund. The fund includes a challenge grant from the Ford Foundation’s “
America’s Cultural Treasures” initiative, designed to support Black, Latinx, Asian, and Indigenous arts organizations in response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and to acknowledge and honor the diversity of artistic expression in the United States.

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Is Seeing That Renoir Essential? In the Pandemic, Cities Differ

2/3/2021

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By Julia Jacobs. From The New York Times. Published 2/2/2021
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CHICAGO — On a recent afternoon outside the Art Institute of Chicago, there was no trace of the line that typically snakes down the museum’s granite steps and along Michigan Avenue as visitors wait to enter the grand home of Edward Hopper’s “Nighthawks” and Grant Wood’s “American Gothic.” Every so often a passer-by paused on the desolate sidewalk to take a selfie with one of the bronze lions guarding the museum, but there was no reason to go further: The doors were locked.

In New York, a strikingly different tableau was playing out on Fifth Avenue outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art. One of the front doors was propped open to welcome a steady stream of visitors; teenagers sat in chatty clusters on the front steps; couples and families paused for temperature checks before entering the bustling lobby.

The contrasting scenes illustrate the diverging approaches that cities, states and individual institutions have taken toward museumgoing at this stage of the pandemic. Museums in New York City, which is now reporting a higher positivity rate than Chicago, have been allowed to operate without interruption at reduced capacities since they reopened in August — while Chicago’s museums were forced into hibernation for two months starting in mid-November, only recently getting the green light to reopen.
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Museums are open in Phoenix, where, per capita, the average number of new cases in the surrounding county over the last week has been more than twice as high as in Washington, where the museums of the Smithsonian Institution remain closed.

In Paris, the Louvre is closed, while in Madrid, the Prado is open.
​The trend in the United States in recent weeks has tilted toward reopening. State and local officials have allowed museums in Boston, Chicago, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Seattle and other cities to reopen again in some capacity, citing falling cases in their areas. The Art Institute of Chicago plans to reopen Feb. 11: officials are getting ready to remove the protective paper covering some of their Monets, calling furloughed employees back to work, and turning back on the lights that were extinguished to preserve the artwork.

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