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It’s no secret that the coronavirus pandemic not only affected millions of people physically, but also had a detrimental impact on mental health. Now, doctors in Brussels are trying something new to help bolster flagging mental health: prescribing museum visits.

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荒廢已久的秀茂坪金茂坪戲院屢傳清拆。戲院業主華懋集團表示,戲院預計本月或下月開始拆卸重建,並期望在上址重建「香港電影文化中心」,冀2024年可啟用。​

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政府今(3日)刊憲,特首林鄭月娥根據《西九文化區管理局條例》第6條賦予的權力,再度委任全國政協常委唐英年擔任西九文化區管理局董事局主席,任期兩年,由今年10月1日至2023年9月30日。​

Coronavirus
International Arts News
新冠肺炎

1 September, Art Basel clarified that anyone required to isolate will be able to remain in the same hotel to do so. The fair will also cover the cost of one PCR test at the start of the fair for non-EU exhibitors who have received the Astra Zeneca vaccine—they will not have to repeat the test if they test negative.​

International Arts News

In its fourth change of leadership in the last 12 years, the board of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles voted today to appoint Johanna Burton, currently the head of the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio, as its new executive director. She will assume many of the managerial duties that Klaus Biesenbach has performed since he was named MOCA’s director in late 2018, and ...

Coronavirus
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A new government mandate will require all visitors to museums, art fairs, and galleries in New York City to provide proof of the coronavirus vaccination. The regulations go into effect on August 16, and will be enforced beginning on September 13. The city is among the first in the United States to undertake such a measure.​

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The composer and theatre impresario Andrew Lloyd Webber is showing some of his Pre-Raphaelite masterpieces at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in the heart of London’s theatreland. A series of eight contemporary works by the US artist Maria Kreyn depicting Shakespearian scenes are also on show at the 358-year-old venue, which has undergone a two-year, £60m renovation funded by Lloyd Webber.​

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政府因應《港區國安法》生效,提出修訂《電影檢查條例》。浸大傳理及電影學院副教授吳國坤在一個電台節目認為,今次修例未有用到「危害」字眼,而採用「不利於」的字眼,是「加辣」的說法,令違反國安法的定義更加廣泛和「曖昧」,紅線變得模糊,或造成寒蟬效應。​

【101報道】香港的藝術文化界近月間迎來連番批評及衝擊後,藝發局4名大會代表突提出請辭,當中更涉及3名民選代表即視覺藝術的陳錦成、音樂的周博賢及戲劇的李俊亮,彼此請辭的關注點稍有不同,但陳錦成直言「擔憂人身安全問題」。

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A certain degree of magical thinking surrounds the non-fungible token, or NFT. The community involved in the NFT-buying frenzy of early 2021 believed that the blockchain technology used to make NFTs instilled them with infallible benefits. NFTs were supposed to be a tamper-proof ledger that authenticated and defined original digital works, which could offer artists royalties as the work was traded ...