The German federal government has announced a $54 billion aid package for artists and cultural and creative businesses.&nbsp;"Artists are not only indispensable, but also vital, especially now," said the country's culture minister. England&rsquo;s art council&nbsp;announced&nbsp;a significantly smaller package of $190 million in support, while in New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art&nbsp;is calling&nbsp;on the government to give US museums a $4 billion bailout.

The German federal government has announced a $54 billion aid package for artists and cultural and creative businesses. "Artists are not only indispensable, but also vital, especially now," said the country's culture minister. England’s art council announced a significantly smaller package of $190 million in support, while in New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is calling on the government to give US museums a $4 billion bailout.

French&nbsp;YouTuber&nbsp;Mathieu Stern discovered a 'time capsule' from around 1900 in his basement and decided to revive some of the pictures inside the box. He used a technique called Cyanotype&nbsp;printing to recolour&nbsp;the 120-year-old pictures. Stern shared the entire process on YouTube&nbsp;as he developed the pictures of what turned out to be a cute kitten and a furry dog.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Bird enthusiasts and researchers are making the best use of the lockdown&nbsp;period which has lowered noise pollution in our surroundings significantly. The first global public sound map of the morning bird song has been created where people have shared over 3,000 recordings of bird chorus at down on the Dawn Chorus website. The project is&nbsp;led by Prof Michael Gorman&nbsp;who told Guardian, 'suddenly, the natural world can be heard more clearly.' According to early findings, Gorman&nbsp;says that&nbsp;records indicate that spring now occurs two weeks earlier than 15 years ago. The spring chorus project will help in the creation of art and help scientists study long-term changes in bird habitats.&nbsp;

Indian globally renowned sand artist Sudarsan&nbsp;Pattnaik&nbsp;has created a 50-feet sand sculpture to mark World No Tobacco Day. The artist from Odisha&nbsp;created the sand art at Puri&nbsp;Beach and wrote the piece aims to 'create awareness about the harmful effects caused due to tobacco' on Twitter. The artist has been creating artworks to mark this day for many years.&nbsp;

Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei&nbsp;has created art masks. The artist is selling 10,000 non-surgical face masks featuring his artworks on eBay and will donate his earnings to&nbsp;coronavirus humanitarian efforts by major charities. From a middle finger to sunflower seeds, the masks will be sold for&nbsp;$50 apiece to $1,500 for a pack of 20. The charitable pieces have been screen printed by hand and are meant to be collected as art rather than protective gear. The artist hopes to raise $1 million with this initiative.&nbsp;

Archaeologists in northern Italy unearthed a&nbsp;perfectly preserved mosaic floor, possibly dating back to the 3rd century AD&rsquo;. The discovery, in the town of Negrar, comes almost 100 years after the remains of an ancient villa were found at the same site. According to the town officials, the floor with intricate patterns was found buried deep under a vineyard. It took countless attempts and many years to uncover a part of the floor and foundations of the Roman Villa, the officials shared. The aim of the project was to ascertain the exact location of the construction. Authorities will now work to ensure that the floor can be seen by the public but it may take some time, they said.&nbsp;

As a part of the ongoing restoration work in Vietnam's Cham temple complex, the Archaeological Survey of India unearthed a rare Monolithic sandstone Shiva Linga dating back to the 9th century. The discovery was shared by External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Twitter, who added that it reaffirmed the 'civilisational connect' between Vietnam and India. This is the fourth season of restoration being carried out at My Son by a four-member ASI team. My Son is a cluster of abandoned Hindu temples. This finding is believed to be the most magnificent among the six other Shiva Lingas, reportedly, found in the My Son complex earlier. In January, the Ministry of External affairs created a new Development Partnership Divison to undertake conservation projects abroad.

A giant wave has appeared on a LED facade of Seoul's&nbsp;SMTown COEX building, South Korea's biggest digital billboard. The illusion rears up before crashing into the surface of the screen, making the display look like a large tank holding the wave. The simulation appears for a minute every hour and it beautifully fuses art with technology.&nbsp;Titled 'WAVE', the project was designed by d'strict, a firm&nbsp;that specializes in using immersive technology to create public art.&nbsp;The project took four months to execute and it is so realistic that it looks as if the water is about to pour over people walking through the busy commercial square.

A flagship initiative by the Minority Affairs Ministry, Hunar&nbsp;Haat will return in September with a &lsquo;Local to Global&rsquo; theme after a five-month gap due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The initiative has generated employment for over five lakh&nbsp;craftspeople who work on exquisite handmade products in remote areas of the nation,&nbsp;Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said.&nbsp;Prime Minister Narendra Modi, paid a visit to a 'Hunar Haat' organised at the India Gate in February, where he lauded the indigenous handwork of artisans. The upcoming edition will follow hygiene and social distancing norms and there will be a provision to sell the products online as well.&nbsp;

Italian woman Claudia Borgogno&nbsp;was announced the lucky winner of a Pablo Picasso painting that was on offer as a part of a charity raffle.&nbsp;Borgogno's son bought the ticket for her as a Christmas present in December. Her ticket was picked out in an electronic draw held at Christie's in Paris. The 1921 painting, Nature Morte or Still Life is valued at 1 million euros by the organisers. Proceeds of over 50,000 tickets, sold at 100 euros each, will go towards providing water for villagers in Cameroon and Madagascar.

The Covid-19 pandemic may force the curtains to close on Shakespeare's iconic Globe Theater in London, where many of his creations were staged and now serves as an attraction for tourists across the world. The playhouse, which largely relies on ticket sales, appealed to its patrons and to theatre lovers for support, since all of Britain's theatres have been shut since March due to the pandemic. This replica of the original Elizabethan structure was built in 1997 on the banks on the River Thames. The Globe's artistic director stated that it is not eligible to receive funding from Arts Council. The chair of the UK's digital, culture, media and sport committee warned that losing the 'national treasure' would be a tragedy.

New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has officially announced that the museum is calling off its annual Met Gala event. The museum has been shut since March to prevent the spread of coronavirus, however, its new exhibit that was supposed to be revealed with the gala titled About Time: Fashion and Duration, will open up on October 29. The museum also said that it is expecting to reopen its doors mid-August or a few weeks after that.&nbsp;

Two studies from the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) and the International Council of Museums (ICOM) say that just like most industries, the museum sector has also&nbsp;suffered majorly&nbsp;due to the coronavirus&nbsp;pandemic. Almost 90% of all museums worldwide, about 85,000 institutions had to shut down temporarily to prevent virus spread. Nearly 13 per cent of them&nbsp;may never reopen their doors again, the agencies said. 'It is imperative to raise emergency relief funds and to put in place policies to protect professionals from the museum industry, UNESCO's&nbsp;Director-General said.&nbsp;

Legendary American basketball player Michael Jordan's game-worn and autographed Nike Air Jordan 1 shoes are going up for auction. The 1985 sneakers were made exclusively for him and are on offer at Sotheby's. They belong to the private collection of Jordan Geller, a collector and founder of the world's first sneaker museum. The mid-height shoes have red laces and a longer Nike Swoosh logo along with the first Air Jordan Insignia and the star's real sign on the right sneaker. According to the auction house, the pair could sell for much more with the success of 'The Last Dance', an ESPN and Netflix documentary&nbsp;on the basketball player that released in mid-April.

The coronavirus pandemic has lead to the closure of countless establishments, including museums. But in true archival fashion, the Victoria &amp; Albert Museum is putting together an online series called Pandemic Objects. The idea behind the project is to&nbsp;explore how regular-use items have become charged with new meaning and purpose amid uncertain times. From new scientific innovations that help combat virus spread to things like toilet paper and streaming services that became more popular than ever before, the series will explore how Covid-19 has changed our life.&nbsp;

Iconic Beatles lyrics written by Paul McCartney and Prince's custom-made guitar are going under the hammer at an auction on the 19th and 20th of June. The 1984 blue cloud guitar was 'heavily used' by the late&nbsp;legendary&nbsp;American singer, said auctioneers.&nbsp;The auction includes a purple suit, a pendant and a pair of his boots. The lyrics of the Beatles song 'Maxwell's Silver Hammer' from&nbsp;the 1969 album 'Abbey Road' by Paul McCartney will also be up for sale by Julien's&nbsp;Auctions. Among other things expected to sell are a blue coat dress worn by Lady Gaga while performing with Elton John at the Sunset Strip In West Hollywood and&nbsp;memorabilia from artists like Michael Jackson, Jim Morrison and Madonna.

Traditional Thai dancers are now wearing protective face shields while performing at the Erawan Shrine, which was reopened after the Thai government relaxed measures to combat the spread of Covid-19, in Bangkok on May 4.
Thailand began its process of easing safety&nbsp;restrictions&nbsp;on May 3 by allowing various businesses to reopen, but has warned that the stricter measures would be re-imposed in case of a second wave.

World renowned&nbsp;Indian author and the man behind bedtime classics like Rusty: The boy from the hills, Ruskin Bond is narrating his short stories on All India Radio to keep people engaged during the Covid-19&nbsp;lockdown. The series, called 'Bonding over the Radio' will run till the 15th of May and can be heard on Prasar Bharati's mobile app called NewsOnAir. Alternatively, it will be available on three other channels, FM Gold, AIR Live News 24X7 and Indraprastha at 7:10 am and 10:10 pm everyday. The handpicked stories were recorded by the author over the telephone from his Mussoorie cottage.

Vadodara's famous Sahaj Rangoli Group organised a virtual rangoli exhibition to spread awareness about the Covid-19 pandemic. The online exhibition featured beautiful creations, some showing the precautions to take while others displaying motivational messages to fight the battle with resilience. Members of the group created the pieces individually at their homes, all shared together in the form of a video.

Idol makers from&nbsp;Kumartuli, an artisans' hub in Kolkata&nbsp;to face huge losses as many Durga puja&nbsp;organisers from abroad are calling off the festivities this year at the last minute due to coronavirus pandemic. An official from the&nbsp;Kumartuli Idol makers Association said that out of around 200 Durga idols, slated to be shipped to US, UAE, Australia, Germany and UK, bookings of not more than five have been confirmed this year. Idol makers now hope that the Durga&nbsp;puja festivities within the city will at least not be dented by the virus.&nbsp;

In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts has decided to shift its lectures online. The lectures will be streamed on the gallery's Facebook page every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 4 pm and will focus on the future of art in a post-Covid-19 world. After about a month, a detailed report by experts will be released on the same topic since the pandemic has caused a lot of apprehension in artists about their future. Apart from the Facebook series that are open to the public, the centre will also offer webinars that will require advanced registration.

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