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Cultural freeze: COVID-19's enormous impact on the arts

Rushdi Anwar's art work

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COVID-19 has changed almost every aspect of lives all over the world. It has impacted many industries, and the arts and entertainment have been impacted incredibly. Kurdish visual artist from Melbourne, Rushdi Anwar, who has been living and working in Thailand for around three years, tells us about they way in which the arts' industry has adapted to the new normal, in order to survive.


Artist Rushdi Anwar
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