In light of COVID-19, we will be offering a sampling of responses from the arts and humanities on the crisis, as well as resources, reflections, and online opportunities.
Conversations
The Geopolitics of COVID-19: Mike Davis in conversation with Joshua Clover
COVID-19 & the Disappearing International: Challenges and Opportunities for Global Human Rights
Articles
The End of College as We Knew It?
Human Rights Scholars on the Pandemic’s Global Impact and the Critical Role of the Humanities
Who Gets Forgotten in a Pandemic? By Mike Davis
Resources
Emergency Funding Sources in the Arts and Humanities During COVID-19
Humanities and Pedagogy during COVID-19
CapRadio has published an excellent list of resources to help Californians affected by COVID-19. Read it here.
A list of resources from California Humanities: https://calhum.org/covid-19-resources/
Arts Online
With galleries closed all over the world for physical distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic, lots of art has been made available online. Here is a handful of virtual tours, curated by DHI Graduate Researcher Maya Weeks:
- A 3D tour of Keith Haring | Jean-Michel Basqiuat: Crossing Lines is available at the National Gallery of Victoria.
- A video tour of the Van Gogh Museum is up. Plus, there is an online collection of works in the museum.
- Ten online exhibits, including Abstracción en Colombia (Abstraction in Colombia), are available at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Bogotá.
- The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum has an extensive collection of works online.
- Here in Davis, Stephanie Taylor's "Comunidad" project honoring community and cultural leaders during the COVID-19 pandemic is up on the International House website.
- YoloArts is offering video tours of Tomás Montoya and Melissa Uroff's studios.
- Professor Robin Hill's recent exhibition, Critical Matters 2.0, was at Jay Jay Gallery in February and March and is now available to view online.
- Not all art is in galleries. For those missing book art, Urgency Reader 2 was published in April 2020 from an open call in response to COVID-19.
- a fun bonus: the creepiest objects in curators' collections!
Kitchen Broadcast is a new livestream performance series taking place every Tuesday and Thursday at 6pm EDT. The Kitchen is one of New York City’s oldest nonprofit spaces, showing innovative work by emerging and established artists across disciplines.