In times of economic stress -- the Great Depression, the 2008 global financial crisis -- the idea is that spending on small, escapist luxuries like cinemagoing, rises. This year is different.
Unsure how to gather audiences, festival after exhibition after concert have been felled by the coronavirus outbreak, from the Venice Biennales -- postponed to 2021 and 2022 -- to the Cannes Film Festival, which was held purely online.
