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State officials announced this week that after nearly a year of being shutdown, arts and entertainment venues in New York City can begin reopening at 33% capacity on April 2nd, with an indoor max of 100-150 attendees. Capacity for indoor events will be limited to 100 people no matter the venue size, unless that venue can administer COVID-19 tests to all attendees, in which case the limit is increased to 150 people.
If tests are administered for an outdoor venue, that number will rise from 200 to 500 attendees.
The announcement was a surprise to some in the arts sector, many of whom have spent months lobbying the state to loosen restrictions for their industry, as it had been for restaurants and other establishments.
Updated / Monday, 1 Mar 2021
13:00
Acts Of Desperation author Megan Nolan (Pic: Lynn Rothwell)
Waterford-born, London-based Megan Nolan is an essayist and critic - her work has have published everywhere from
The New York Times and the
New Statesman (where she writes a regular column) to
Winter Papers and here on RTÉ Culture.
This month she publishes her first novel,
Acts Of Desperation (published by Jonathan Cape); it s a darkly funny tale of a toxic relationship and secret female desire, already acclaimed by the likes of Marian Keyes and Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgård.
We asked Megan for her choice cultural picks.
The visionary electronic musician created a universe of digital particles. For me, it sounded like the future.
3 February 2021
3 February 2021
Sophie s music oversaturated, overtook, and in my earliest listenings, it stirred something within my body that I didn t know existed or, perhaps, didn t yet have the courage to acknowledge. Even before the Glasgow-born producer introduced herself to the world, the sound she developed in anonymity, though entirely computer-generated, had a distinctly visceral quality: It snapped like a rubber band, oozed like melting plastic, fizzed like shaken soda. Each single was illustrated with an appropriately artificial graphic of monochromatic tubing, while high-pitched, high-speed vocal modulations suggested that the womanhood she synthesised could be bought, manufactured in a lab, or ripped from a hard drive.
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