Search results
Jan 4, 2021 · According to the most recent data, arts and culture contribute 4.5% of the annual national GDP through direct economic activity4 and 3.4% of the total work force.5 The value the arts add to the U.S. economy ($877.8 billion in 2017) is five times larger than that added by agriculture, and $265 billion larger than.
- 622KB
- 10
Like the impact of coronavirus itself, touching some people mildly, others devastatingly, the effect of a world of illness and lockdown on individual artists and galleries is diverse, but...
- By Lona Mody
- By Ali Al-Nasser
- Photo by Swapneil Parikh
- By Ed Hutchinson
- By Sarah Racanière, Featuring Colour Blind, A Poem by Duke Al Durham
- By Alexander Allen
- By Angela Araujo
- By Julie Shade
- By Jessica Johnson
- By Filipe Dezordi
Lona Mody is the Amanda Sanford Hickey Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, and a professor of epidemiology at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. She is also the director of the Center of Research and Innovations in Special Populations (CRIISP), Ann Arbor, MI, USA, an...
Ali Al-Nasser is a medical laboratory technologist at the Virology Unit of the Public Health Laboratories, Ministry of Health, Zahra, Kuwait. I have used my own art as real-time documentation of the pandemic and my own impression of the workload. I consider this painting as physical evidence of my work to fight this pandemic as a lab tech working i...
Swapneil Parikh is an internist and clinical research fellow in the molecular lab of the Kasturba Hospital for Infectious Diseases, Mumbai, India. The months of May through August 2020 were very difficult in Mumbai. Our medical facilities were overrun, and we needed to set up field medical centers, testing stations, fever clinics, etc. I worked wit...
Ed Hutchinson is the lead of a molecular virology group at the MRC–University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Glasgow, UK, working mainly on influenza viruses. I have used art in 2020 partly for science communication about SARS-CoV-2—often in collaboration with people who, unlike me, have formal training in medical illustration and can do a b...
Sarah Racanière is a consultant physician with a specialist interest in diabetes and endocrinology. Art and painting with vibrant colors gives me what I call 'colorjoy' and a 'colorfix'. I find the human body a beautiful, remarkable creation. Through art, I express my fascination with its structure and function in an abstract/contemporary fashion, ...
Alexander Allen is a fourth-year medical student at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, VA, USA. I believe the arts are important in medicine because they remind us of the limits of scientific knowledge. If you look at a beautiful painting, or listen to a captivating song, you cannot quantitatively explain the feeling...
Angela Araujo is a final-year PhD student working on breast-cancer research at the Biodonostia Health Research Institute, San Sebastián, Spain. Art has helped me to take my mind to beautiful places during my blue/stressful moments and realize how science and art are not that different: both depend on creativity and can be gorgeous. Naturarte is a s...
Julie Shade is a PhD candidate in biomedical engineering at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA. Julie works in the Trayanova lab, which is part of the Johns Hopkins Alliance for Cardiovascular Diagnostic and Treatment Innovation (ADVANCE). My research is all about integrating computational cardiac modeling with machine learning to provide...
Jessica Johnson is a data scientist in Laura Huckins’ lab in the Pamela Sklar Division of Psychiatric Genomics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA, who is working on projects that apply transcriptomic imputation methods to electronic health record–based data to better understand the genetic basis of psychiatric disorde...
Filipe Dezordi is a PhD student at the Fundação Oswaldo Cruz–Instituto Aggeu Magalhães, Recife, Brazil, who works with bioinformatics applied to mosquito and viral genomics. In Brazil we have been in social isolation from February 2020 until now. My art has worked as an escape from reality, a moment for me and myself.
- Hannah Stower, Marianne Guennot
- 2021
Mar 10, 2021 · Musicians, authors, directors, comedians, painters and playwrights open up about trying to be creative, and sometimes failing, in quarantine.
May 2, 2020 · As the coronavirus forces us to endure an unprecedented time of distant social contact, art can remind us, assure us, of our interconnectedness
The COVID-19 pandemic had a sudden and substantial impact on the arts and cultural heritage sector. The global health crisis and the uncertainty resulting from it profoundly affected organisations' operations as well as individuals—both employed and independent—across the sector. Arts and culture sector organisations attempted to uphold their (often publicly funded) mission to provide ...
Feb 9, 2021 · Feb 9, 2021 7:00 AM. Artists Reimagine How Covid-19 Will Shape the Art World. When galleries and museums closed, artists found new ways to present their work. Now they're looking ahead to...
