100 artists contribute art, articles to new magazine to help out-of-work creatives
Vivian Westwood and Wolfgang Tillmans are among 100 artists who accept contributed art and manufactures to a new magazine LIMBO created especially to help colleagues who are out of piece of work and to capture the world during lockdown.
Responding to increasingly urgent calls from the high-profile sector, United kingdom announced on Sunday (Jul 5) it would invest most US$2 billion (S$ii.79 billion) in cultural institutions and the arts to aid an manufacture crippled by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Due to be published on Tuesday, LIMBO was born of a desire to capture the world in a unique moment in history and to help each other in a time of crisis, its creators said. The magazine upends the traditional publishing model by sharing all revenue equally betwixt the team.
"In the very offset week of lockdown I thought to myself 'I'd honey to run into within everyone's minds and everyone'southward home right now," publisher of LIMBO, Nick Chapin, told Reuters.
"All these fantastic creative people, writers, filmmakers. How are they channelling this energy? So I almost saw it as similar a hundred windows on the minds and homes of people around the world."
Fifty A-listing artists and creatives – from Oscar-winner Andrea Arnold, to Miranda July – waived their fees, allowing funds raised to go to the 50 contributors virtually in need.
"I wasn't able to become any help from the government when my business cruel through. And then nosotros definitely felt like we had to do something ourselves. We had to find a way to support our community from the basis up," Chapin said.
The magazine is being sold in an award system at three different prices, £9 (U.s.$xi.25) for concessions, £14 at normal price and £19 for readers who want to contribute more.
(Source: Reuters)
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