NEW YORK — Every weekday at 3 p.m., leaders from across one of the world's great cities for the arts join a conference call to talk about an ever-expanding catastrophe. Made up of organizations as grand as Carnegie Hall and as small as Queens Theatre, the Cultural Institutions Group discusses everything from staff furloughs to now-vacant spaces that could be lent to hospitals overburdened by the novel coronavirus.
As the COVID-19 disease has escalated, turning New York into a crisis epicenter, the resolve of a multibillion-dollar arts community has intensified to try to temper panic and pool advice. And what was once a routine monthly call among 34 arts and cultural organizations that receive significant money from the city has ballooned into a daily emergency call-in with as many as 170 anxious arts administrators and advocates.
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