According to Ben Simons, Savannah has a safe haven, a refuge if you will, from the chaotic world we ve all found ourselves living in.
Simons, the new executive director and CEO of the Telfair Museums, said that haven can be found at any or all of the Telfair Museums sites.
Whether it s a visiting piece by Picasso (coming this year), an Italian sculpture, a self-portrait by poet and novelist Kahil Gibran, or a Regency-style 1819 mansion, all three sites of the Telfair provide a calm and unhurried bit of wonder.
Simons said that attendance at the museums has been steadily climbing, reaching about half of pre-pandemic attendance levels since the museums reopened in late June.
Bernice Bing’s A Lady and a Roadmap (1963), which the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco bought for an undisclosed price in 2020 Kevin Candland/Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
Even as the Covid-19 pandemic took an enormous toll on US art museums in 2020, forcing many to close their doors for months and make painful staff layoffs, several quietly continued to collect art. They mainly drew on earmarked acquisition funds that cannot legally be used for other purposes, given the terms of the original donors’ gifts and the laws that govern non-profits.
Most of the country’s great encyclopaedic art museums have these restricted acquisition funds, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH). So do some mid-sized museums, whether the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco or the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.
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COVID-19 impacting Madison County paramedics
Impacts of COVID-19 on HEMSI By Kate Smith | December 21, 2020 at 6:15 PM CST - Updated December 21 at 6:25 PM
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) - Paramedics with HEMSI are sounding the alarm after responding to a severe increase in COVID-19 calls.
The men and women on the front lines are giving one last plea before the holiday: stay separate and wear a mask.
The usual calls are still happening for Madison County paramedics. Heart attacks and car crashes are still paramedics’ responsibilities, but as the pandemic drags on, they’re stressed out from the increase in COVID-19 calls.
“We are now seeing the impact of Thanksgiving and it has been brutal to us,” said Paramedic Jean Humphrey.
Huntsville Emergency Medical Services paramedics share their experience with the coronavirus I would liken it to being tortured, just in terms of the body pain, it was very excruciating.
Posted: Dec 21, 2020 9:50 PM
Updated: Dec 21, 2020 9:58 PM
Posted By: Grace Campbell
Across the country, people are getting ready to celebrate the holidays this week. Health officials are worried about a potential increase in positive COVID-19 cases if people don t follow CDC guidelines.
WAAY 31 learned what two Huntsville paramedics endured when they had the coronavirus.
Jean Humphrey and David Drake are two young and seemingly healthy paramedics. They initially thought they d feel fine if they were to get the coronavirus, but that wasn t the case.