Special Report: Why art is never just for art’s sake

In the second part of our Save the Arts series, musicians, designers, curators, and others in the sector recount the emotional and financial toll of not being able to earn, not being able to express themselves, and not being able to engage with an audience

Members of the arts sector recount the emotional and financial toll of not being able to earn.

KIERAN O’CONNOR

For months, it seemed that every email I received contained the phrase, ‘in these strange times’. It might as well have been ‘in these end times’, as the news from outside became bleaker.