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The impact of Covid-19 on artistic income

As Covid-19 closed concert halls, galleries, and theatres it cut off the incomes of the people who worked in them. One year on, what has been the effect of the pandemic on artistic income? Alexander Cuntz of the World Intellectual Property Organisation has used unique incomes data from Germany to estimate how incomes have been affected, and how important states support has been for artists.