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Coronavirus Art

Sacred Spaces
‘Love you, then, well’: London’s National COVID Memorial Wall pays tribute to the country’s 240K lives lost to COVID-19
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Jorge Drexler poses in the press room with his Grammys at the 23rd annual Latin Grammy Awards at the Mandalay Bay Michelob Ultra Arena on Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022, in Las Vegas. 
Music
Uruguayan musician Jorge Drexler wins big at Latin Grammy Awards
Eno Breathe class on Zoom
COVID-19
How opera techniques are helping people with long COVID breathe easier
drawing
Coronavirus Art
For this man in Istanbul, the pandemic renewed a lifelong passion for drawing 
Firebaugh residents perform traditional Aztec dances for the Virgen de Guadalupe celebration.
Las Posadas holiday tradition brings ‘joy to the people’ in California community hit hard by the pandemic
A 1988 polychrome resin sculpture is displayed of the comic character Tintin and his dog snowy
Global Cartoons
A radio personality drew popular cartoon Tintin into Bangladesh scenes while quarantining — to the delight of fans
White mask with wool straps and green rosettes, with the words Marie Bee Bloom in the top left corner
Environment
Graphic designer creates biodegradable masks that bloom flowers when buried
Two hands are shown holding several acorns while the rest of the photograph is dark.
COVID-19
This nature photography project helps London health care workers cope with pandemic stress
An elderly man is shown wearing a blue jacked with two kids running nearby and an painting of a hand holding a candle on the wall.
COVID-19
How poetry has helped a hospital chaplain in the pandemic
A large crowd of people are shown with arms locked standing opposite a line of police wearing riot gear with black helmets.
Top of The World
Pro-Navalny protesters clash with Russian police; Dutch protests erupt over COVID-19 curfew; Mexican president tests positive for coronavirus
People stand next to offerings during a ceremony in honor of Yemanja, the goddess of the sea, which is part of New Year's celebrations to plea for relief from the coronavirus pandemic and asks for a better new year at Praia Vermelha beach in Rio de Janeir
Brazilians flock to the coast during the height of tourist season while coronavirus cases surge
Leah Weiss, who is also a medial clown named Rosie, has been working in the COVID-19 ward of a Jerusalem hospital most of this year.
COVID-19
To cheer up COVID-19 patients, Israeli hospitals send in the clowns
A woman playin cello appears in an empty museum hall.
Coronavirus Art
‘Food for our soul’: Cellist Camille Thomas performs solo at Paris museums during lockdown
"Cain’s Jawbone," by Edward Powys Mathers
British comedian becomes third person in 90 years to solve difficult literary puzzle
The Pestsäule monument in Vienna.
Coronavirus Art
Will there be a monument to victims of the coronavirus pandemic?
Shifting to face masks has been a survival move for many textile businesses in the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico.
Mexican artisans make face masks to stay afloat amid coronavirus    
An African man wearing sunglasses and a white shirt sings at the piano into a microphone
Coronavirus Art
A new study on coronavirus songs in Africa looks at the impact of music with a message
Artist Daniel Voshart's machine learning-assisted images of Roman emperors Augustus, left, and Maximinus Thrax, right.
Arts
This artist used machine learning to create realistic portraits of Roman emperors
A padlock motif on fabric produced by Ghana Textiles Printing represents the lockdown in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
COVID-19
This Ghanaian company is producing fabric with motifs inspired by COVID-19
A fountain pen underlining key words in text.
Arts, Culture & Media
Poets and novelists have basically been writing about life under COVID-19 for more than a century
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Music
Travel takes on new meaning in this jazz pianist’s latest album
A group of people stand outside a red house near a white horse with fanciful lyrics
‘Bardcore’ trend sees modern pop songs reimagined with a medieval twist 
Three candle jars with colorful labels
COVID-19
‘Scents of Normality’ captures the essence of everyday life before lockdown
A woman wears a mask and reads a book to two children, also wearing masks.
Coronavirus Art
A Texas couple wrote a bilingual book to encourage children to wear masks
Ana Tijoux performs during a concert by female artists on the eve of International Women's Day, in the Zocalo in Mexico City, March 7, 2020.
French Chilean rapper’s new track criticizes politicians’ apathy over coronavirus
Dr. Georgina Keogh, a doctor at St George’s Hospital in London, stands beside a portrait of her painted by artist Jane Clatworthy as part of an NHS portrait series project.
Coronavirus Art
‘Portraits for NHS Heroes’ honors UK’s frontline health workers
Residents listen from a bench, background, as Percibald García reads children's books aloud outside the high-rise buildings in the Tlatelolco housing complex, in Mexico City, on July 18, 2020.
COVID-19
This Mexico City architect transformed an empty public square into a storytelling stage
Onlookers attend the opening of the exhibition on Greek art with the marble sculpture of the river god Ilissos, in front, in the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, Russia, Dec. 5, 2014.
Coronavirus Art
Battle of the bums: Museums compete over best artistic behinds
A stenciled rat appears to be sneezing.
Arts, Culture & Media
Banksy unveils new pandemic-inspired art featuring rats in face masks
A silhouette of 2 people wearing a mask appears over the night sky of a city.
Coronavirus Art
Drones light up the sky in Seoul with coronavirus prevention messages
a theater. with red carpet is full of plants instead of an audience.
COVID-19
Barcelona opera reopens to full house — of plants
a image simulation of Van Gogh art projected in a room with a car in the center
Coronavirus Art
‘Gogh By Car’ to this Toronto art exhibit
Faithful photographic reproduction of Edvard Munch's painting, "Self-Portrait with Spanish Flu."
Coronavirus Art
Art, poetry and … zombies? The surprising cultural contributions of the 1918 influenza pandemic
A stuffed animal Totoro and other characters from the 1988 Japanese anime film "My Neighbor Totoro."
Japan’s Studio Ghibli teaches fans how to draw its beloved character Totoro
Three musician roommates sit on their rooftop and look up at the camera
Coronavirus Art
This trio in Spain gets through ‘confinement blues’ with socially conscious music
Parents with their children stand in a queue waiting to get inside Stengaard School following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak north of Copenhagen, Denemark, April 15, 2020.
Denmark early to reopen schools
The sound collage, “Social Distance, Haiku, and You,” pulls together haikus about life in quarantine from all over the world.  
Coronavirus Art
Quarantine projects curate pandemic-inspired art
A painting of a woman
Coronavirus Art
During social distancing, artists collaborate on ‘Long Distance Art’
Dr. Maud Braun-Reys, left, a dental surgeon in Obernai, France, posted an image on Facebook of herself naked in her office along with her father, Dr. Daniel Reys, also a dentist, to protest the lack of PPE.
Coronavirus Art
French dentists strip naked to protest lack of protective gear
A group of MoMA security guards pose with artist Chemi Rosado-Seijo, far right, creator of an audio guard where the guards explain their favorite works of art.
Coronavirus Art
In a new MoMA audio guide, security guards are the art experts
A group of people collaborate in different screens on video call
Coronavirus Art
Artists flock to the only ‘festival’ still on during COVID-19
The Museum of the City of New York posted a #MuseumMomentofZen on Twitter: This is Herbert Bolivar Tschudy's work, "The Turtle Tank," from 1920.
Coronavirus Art
5 museums offering virtual art while you’re quarantined