On four separate occasions, I arranged my schedule with Carrie so I could have six uninterrupted hours a day to write. With that in mind, we open this window into the past - and perhaps a door to the future. But they asked to share one caveat: “Obsessing over what it did to me specifically almost inexcusably leaves out my constant awareness of the damage to my community, the arts in general, to say nothing of the half a million dead Americans,” wrote the composer Nico Muhly. Through interviews and written answers, edited and collected here, they let us into the life of a creative mind in quarantine. The questions we asked them are ones you may be asking yourself: Did you make anything that mattered? Who and what comforted you? Which moments will you remember? Which ideas would you like to forget? What would a do-over look like? And what’s still on your to-do list as “normal” comes into focus? While we wait for that to emerge, we asked 75 artists to open up about their creative travails and triumphs a year into the pandemic.
Great art will be made from this time, about this time, inspired by this time.
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