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Facing a potential shortfall of $150 million because of the pandemic, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has begun conversations with auction houses and its curators about selling some artworks to help pay for care of the collection.

“This is the time when we need to keep our options open,” said Max Hollein, the Met’s director, in an interview. “None of us have a full perspective on how the pandemic ...

本港新冠肺炎疫情稍有緩和，政府今日（16日）宣布多個處所將有條件重開。文娛設施方面，康文署宣布公共圖書館、香港藝術館、香港文化博物館及香港歷史博物館部分重開，而表演場地恢復可讓現場觀眾入場，上限為場地容納人數的一半，而所有進入場所的人士均須掃描「安心出行」二維碼，或登記姓名、聯絡電話及到訪的日期及時間。

The English National Opera begins the UK-wide rollout of ENO Breathe, a new prescribed programme of singing, breathing and wellbeing, designed to help those recovering from the symptoms of COVID-19.

The programme uses the techniques used for singers to improve quality of breath and help manage the anxiety that breathlessness often produces. Singing is shown to help retrain breathing, so ENO ...

After seven years as editor-in-chief of Art in America, William S. Smith is departing the magazine to join Hong Kong’s new M+ museum, currently slated to open this fall after a series of postponements. There, Smith will work within the curatorial department and oversee the museum’s digital and editorial content.

Dortmund Konzerthaus is being transformed into a COVID-19 test centre. The concert hall, opened in 2002, will start offering antigen and PCR tests from 27 January.

People interested in having a COVID test can book an appointment online at covidzentrum.de. Tests take a few minutes, with the result sent by text within 20 for antigen tests, while the PCR results take up to 24 hours. The price is €49 ...

The Cannes Film Festival has confirmed a new set of dates for this year’s event, which has again been postponed due to the pandemic. The decision was taken following a board meeting on Tuesday.

The initial dates, which were May 11-22, didn’t seem feasible as France is on the verge of a new lockdown in order to cope with the second wave of COVID-19. Instead, the festival will run from Tuesday ...

The Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels (BOZAR) has been damaged after a large fire.

The fire started on the centre’s roof on Monday afternoon. Around 100 firefighters worked to contain the blaze, with the fire extinguished later that day. No one was injured.

太古宣布今年4月起，將繼續成為香港管弦樂團首席贊助，在未來3年贊助樂團共4640萬元，為樂團有史以來最大的企業贊助。太古自2006年起成為港樂的首席贊助。

太古與港樂未來3年將舉辦連串教育及外展活動，致力將古典音樂帶到社區和培育本地音樂人才。新計劃包括將音樂巧妙融入運動、說故事、飲食的音樂節目「港玩・港樂」，以及推出首項由港樂和香港演藝學院共同管理的「管弦樂精英訓練計劃」， 旨在為演藝學院音樂學院的畢業生提供專業培訓，促進他們在管弦樂領域的事業發展。

西九文化區內演藝綜合劇場地盤內一名工人確診新冠肺炎，全體工人需進行檢測。承建商金門建築回覆本報查詢時指，確診者是演藝綜合劇場及綜合地庫L2合約工程項目的尼泊爾搭棚工。

How the art world mighty have fallen. Art fairs—ranking as the third most successful way for galleries to sell art in 2019—has slipped to sixth position in 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic, according to the Artsy Gallery Insights 2021 Report. Social media has replaced fairs, becoming galleries’ third best sales channel, moving up from sixth place in 2019. “The ranking of top sales channels ...