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ARTinvestment.RU   06 апреля 2020

How to cope with the pandemic art institutions in Asia, which previously released from quarantine?

the whole world is focused right now on a difficult situation related to the spread of the virus COVID-19 in Europe and USA and how these countries are under strong pressure of the restrictive measures, trying to help your art-рынку and the rest of the art institutions, but these countries of the global resistance to the strongest in recent years the crisis in all spheres of life is not limited.

in mid-February, the Ministry of culture of Taiwan became one of the first in the world state bodies of culture, announced the results of the aid package in the amount of 1.5 billion TWD ($49.5 million) to organizations of culture and art of the country. This assistance will be divided into two parts: the first — 1.1 billion TWD ($36.3 million) — is aimed at helping art-институциям during the crisis, the second will contribute to the restoration of these organizations after the completion of the pandemic. Government funds can get self-employed artists and organisations working in the arts, media, film, music and other performative arts as well as museums and centers of cultural heritage preservation. At this point in the process of final approval of applications for grants, and first aid to the workers of art and culture of the country will receive in the first half of April.

Not far behind in the scale of aid to a sector of art and culture in Hong Kong. On 21 February, the government had created a Fund of support of business in the context of the pandemic in the amount of 30 billion Hong Kong dollars ($3.9 billion), of which 150 million Hong Kong dollars ($19 million) will go to support the art-бизнеса and art institutions.

In Singapore, where all places of mass leisure activities, including cultural industries and arts, was quarantined from 26 March to 30 April, the government to help "save the business and jobs," has pledged to support art-бизнеса additional 55 million Singapore dollars ($39 million) in addition to the previously allocated 1.6 million Singapore dollars ($1.1 million). Simultaneously, the self-employed artists in the country over the next nine months, with approved application, can receive a monthly allowance of a thousand Singapore dollars (about $700). For this purpose the government had allocated 1.2 billion Singapore dollars ($840 million).

Japan and South Korea also announced the provision of large-scale financial aid packages art-бизнесу and art-структурам countries. In Japan it's 1 trillion yen ($9 billion), and in Korea — 1 million won ($817 million).

the amount of these are likely not final and will depend on the spread of the virus in each country and how much will shrink the economic sector. Nevertheless, it is important that even in this difficult time the issues of preservation and development of culture and the arts, art-рынка and art-бизнеса in each of the countries do not remain without attention of the authorities.

the Material was prepared by Maria Kuznetsova, AI

Source: artasiapacific.com