United States Artists has announced Lulani Arquette and Roberto Bedoya as recipients of 2021 Berresford Prize, an annual award that honors cultural practitioners who have contributed significantly to the advancement, wellbeing, and care of artists in society. Lulani Arquette and Roberto Bedoya are complementary figures in the field that have both created new possibilities for artists, and will each receive the $25,000 award this year. Their visionary approaches engender cooperation, promote thoughtful civic engagement, and advocate for artists on a local and national level.
Getting Creative
How arts, culture and entertainment will evolve as they recover from the pandemic and how they will help society heal.
Emily Shur
“Culture gives us a way to properly grieve that the daily news cannot give us,” says Peter Sellars, distinguished professor in the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance. John Harlow | Photography by Emily Shur |
December 10, 2020
In the forthcoming movie
Songbird, Hollywood producer Michael Bay flashes forward to Los Angeles in 2024, a city stricken by COVID-23 and locked down under violent martial law.
It’s just one of several pandemic-themed films currently in the works. And while some of these movies might be dismissed as tone-deaf and quickly forgotten, the COVID-19 pandemic will continue to have a profound effect on the worlds of storytelling, art and entertainment.