A Cultural Resources Guide for the Self-Quarantined & the Socially Distant
The Globe Theatre in the UK gives you a chance to see some of their productions. The plays are fee-based, but there’s free content, too. I saw Twelfth Night, w Mark Rylance, Stephen Fry, and Samuel Barnett, 3 times when it played in NY. It was that much fun! https://globeplayer.tv
The actor Russell Tovey (Looking) and the gallerist Robert Diament have a podcast in which they talk about art w some interesting guests, including Michael Stipe, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, and Vik Muniz.https://play.acast.com/s/talkart
Another artsy podcast, hosted by Art Agency, now affiliated w Sotheby’s, includes interviews w the Met’s Max Hollein, David Zwirner, Catherine Opie, Maureen Paley, and Sadie Coles, amongst others.https://www.artagencypartners.com/podcast/
Speaking of David Zwirner, perhaps not surprisingly, his gallery has some of the best virtual viewing rooms. https://www.davidzwirner.com/viewing-room?gclid=Cj0KCQjw3qzzBRDnARIsAECmryr-zZqbRxjtGPm2UN9nVmCH4u1xV5HjQdAj1rFZfWBYiDBgwthqw6QaAh0bEALw_wcB. David’s son, Lucas, heads up their publishing program, which features the newly released catalogue for the brilliant exhibition, The Young and The Evil, as well reprints of long out-of-date monographs such as Proust’s writings on Chardin & Rembrandt, or Oscar Wilde writing on the Critic as Artist.https://davidzwirnerbooks.com
Pace has also opened up their online viewing rooms. https://www.pacegallery.com/viewing-rooms/sam-gilliam/
A lot of you have let me know you’re taking refuge in your gardens. The Royal Academy of Arts in the UK has put together a nice YouTube feature on Monet’s gardens in Giverney. It’s short, but well-done. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjWx2WNXFF4
Music Never Sleeps is a 24-Hour Music Video Livestream Marathon Event beginning at 6:00PM EDT on Friday, March 27, 2020. https://musicneversleepsnyc.com/?fbclid=IwAR3Dy33tfmdwOq7qm2hufdETSXLNx2tzgSPn_6ITeQAecRF_d4wwWe_6mlM
Rosie O’Donnell hosted a Broadway fund-raiser which you can watch here, featuring almost 3,000 different performers and supporters. https://www.broadway.com/rosie/
Opera Vision EU offers operas from all over Europe, available w English subtitles. https://operavision.eu/en
** My personal fav: Calling to mind Alexander Sokurov‘s 2002 film, Russian Ark, the 29-year-old Russian filmmaker Axinya Gog filmed a tour of the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg in a single 5 hour, 19 min, 28 sec take, using the iPhone 11 Pro. The film is an ad for Apple, highlighting the phone’s longlasting battery life, but it also gives you a look at the museum and almost 600 of the masterpieces in its collection. Five hours to watch a YouTube ad? C’mon, what else have you got to do?? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49YeFsx1rIw&feature=youtu.be
Google Arts & Culture https://artsandculture.google.com offers free virtual tours of some of the world's greatest museum (along w places like the US National Parks (Jellystone National Park anyone? "No more bananas for Boo-Boo!" ). You can tour the galleries of
the British Museum in London, https://britishmuseum.withgoogle.com
the Guggenheim in NY, https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/solomon-r-guggenheim-museum?hl=en
the Musee d'Orsay in Paris, https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/musee-dorsay-paris?hl=en
the National Gallery of Art in DC, https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/vermeer-and-the-masters-of-genre-painting/rwKCpEfplLwhJg?hl=en
the Pergamon in Berlin, https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/pergamon/m05tcm?hl=en
the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, https://artsandculture.google.com/streetview/rijksmuseum/iwH5aYGoPwSf7g?hl=en&sv_lng=4.885283712508563&sv_lat=52.35984312584405&sv_h=311.1699875145569&sv_p=-5.924133903625474&sv_pid=fOVcUXQW2wpRf33iUmxEfg&sv_z=1.0000000000000002
the Getty in LA, https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/the-j-paul-getty-museum?hl=en
the Uffizi in Florence https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/uffizi-gallery?hl=en
The Met Museum in NY may be closed for the moment, but they've put together digital digests of the collection: https://www.metmuseum.org/blogs/now-at-the-met/2020/digital-digest
The Louvre in Paris is offering a selection of virtual tours: https://www.louvre.fr/en/visites-en-ligne
The Museums of the Vatican in Rome give you a chance to see the Sistine Chapel from your couch (or pew): http://www.museivaticani.va/content/museivaticani/en/collezioni/musei/cappella-sistina/tour-virtuale.html
The Vienna State Opera is offering daily streams from its archives:https://operawire.com/vienna-state-opera-to-offer-daily-live-streams-from-its-opera-archives/?fbclid=IwAR3UE5kSFFA-Mpxhp7faF_yqWFCgmEnYWNSLwIrYhBf6pdUZ-Hbb4rnlp18
The Berlin Philharomic is offering free access to concerts from its digital archives. Sign up by Tuesday 31 March to see/hear over 600 concerts from the last 10 years: https://www.berliner-philharmoniker.de/en/titelgeschichten/20192020/digital-concert-hall/
Every night at 7:30 ET, the Metropolitan Opera in NY is streaming one of it's archived performances for free: https://www.metopera.org
If you want something more contemporary, Neil Young, Chris Martin, and others are offering livestream concerts from their homes: https://consequenceofsound.net/2020/03/livestream-concerts-neil-young-chris-martin-ben-gibbard-coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2gohp3WZ7Fr9INBj9oGg2Hv1ND33I6Zxc_eV84qPhPEa6u811d2r1ZLWs
You can still see a Broadway show, accessing various platforms:https://playbill.com/article/15-broadway-plays-and-musicals-you-can-watch-on-stage-from-home?fbclid=IwAR0WFo22o0_OGqr_F40cNjbfIUdYTQnJ_VI9MNzhC4GIvNJjkJ0bnXu48V8
Many of us have access to Netflix, Amazon Prime. There's also TCM, which is great for classic movies (you can even see Ben Mankowitz's great introductions!), & PBS (Grantchester! Endeavour!). Don't forget if you have Comcast or Spectrum, you can access them online, too. And if you want to try something new, you can view Hulu's offerings free for 30 days: https://www.hulu.com/start?&cmp=7959&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=BM%20Search%20NonBrand&utm_term=+full%20+movie&ds_rl=1249728&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIgvXEmqij6AIVYRitBh0XlQSKEAAYASAAEgK_VfD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds
And for something new and different, one of our artists, Andrew Fladeboe, received a Fulbright and did this great series of photographs of working dogs on sheep farms in New Zealand. Now he is making a video game inspired by that experience. He has created the Isle of Pan, a photography adventure video game in which you explore a mysterious Island in the North Sea. Armed with only a camera and a magical book, you befriend the strange inhabitants to unlock portals to other worlds. It works for both VR and PC. This requires a contribution, but you'll be helping out Andrew, who developed this: https://ko-fi.com/dogu_. Artists of all kinds are having a very tough time of it right now, and any help we lend them is meaningful. Prints of some of his photographs are still available, as well: https://www.phhfineart.com/artists/andrew-fladeboe