Blooms, rainbows and kisses in bars: artists raise morale and money under Covid-19

From Nan Goldin’s flowers and Damien Hirst’s rainbows to Rashid Johnson’s anxious red splodges, a host of artists are fundraising for coronavirus. Here’s a roundup of what’s out there

It is too early to tell if the Covid-19 pandemic will produce an artistic legacy on a par with Edvard Munch’s Spanish flu portraits, but this virus and its fallout have already garnered a huge response by artists. Unlike Munch’s horrifying self-portrait made while he was struck down with the early 20th-century disease, or a morose second painting made in recovery, the work produced by today’s artists in response to coronavirus has been to either raise morale or money for charity.

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