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FROM TODAY'S ARTSJOURNAL BLOGS
MoMA’s Accessibility Crunch: Too Many Long Lines, Too Many Stairs, Not Enough Chairs 

I gave the newly expanded Museum of Modern Art a test it was bound to fail by revisiting on the Sunday after Christmas—a tourist-heavy time of year. Below is my report card, along with some pro-tips for navigating the obstacles and minimizing the amount of time wasted in waiting. – Lee Rosenbaum

 


Are The Arts To Blame For Donald Trump? 

It’s a provocative claim, and I’ll admit my first reaction was to dismiss it out of hand. And yet … – Douglas McLennan

 


A Finger Picker Salutes Herbie Nichols 

Spinning Song: Duck Baker Plays The Music Of Herbie Nichols
In the New York jazz scene of the 1950s and early sixties, the breadth and depth of his talent won enormous respect for pianist and composer Herbie Nichols. One of those affected by Nichols is Duck Baker, a fingerstyle guitarist from Richmond. – Doug Ramsey

 



 
TODAY'S ARTS & CULTURE NEWS ~ 01/05/2020

DANCE
The Young Japanese Monks Fusing Breakdancing And Buddhism
     - Email/share this:     - Toronto Star (The Japan News) 

Ballet, Too, Must Move Past Its (White, Imperialist) Roots
     - Email/share this:     - Dance Magazine 

Following Sexual Harassment Suit, Co-Founder Of Minnesota Multicultural Dance Company Resigns
     - Email/share this:     - The Star Tribune (Minneapolis) 

Wendy Perron: The Dance I Loved In 2019
     - Email/share this:     - Wendy Perron 

Dancing While Deaf: What It’s Like To Move To Music You Can’t Hear
     - Email/share this:     - Dance Magazine 

How The Cha-Cha Led A Refugee Couple From Boat People To Oscar Contenders
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

What Happened When A Dancer Witnessed Abuse At His Dance Company And Reported It
     - Email/share this:     - Dance Magazine 

The Bet: That Dancing On A Blind Date Is Inherently More Sexy, Or At Least More Flirty
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 


IDEAS
The Revenge Of The Pretty Good Non-Action, Not Part Of A Franchise Movie
     - Email/share this:     - BuzzFeed 

January Is A Terrible Time To Make Resolutions
     - Email/share this:     - Fast Company 

How Social Media Killed The Paparazzi
     - Email/share this:     - Buzzfeed News 

A Decade That Cultivated Darkness
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Disruption? You Can Measure The Cognitive Dissonance
     - Email/share this:     - 3 Quarks Daily 

Our Fears Of A World Shaped By Algorithms
     - Email/share this:     - Vox 

Smartphones Changed The Way We Document Our Lives
     - Email/share this:     - Slate 


ISSUES
Canadian Poet Cancels Talk About Indigenous Poets Because Of His Advocacy For Murderer Of An Indigenous Woman
     - Email/share this:     - Globe and Mail (Canada) 

Hi, It’s 2020, Why Are Women Having To Prove Women’s Stories Are Valuable … Again?
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian (UK) 

English Funding Directly To Artists Has Declined. Here Are The Consequences
     - Email/share this:     - Arts Professional 

Now In The Public Domain: These Works Came Out Of Copyright This Week
     - Email/share this:     - Public Domain Day 

Rome’s Mayor Orders Relocation Of All Souvenir Stalls Near Major Attractions
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

In Brazil, Artists And Musicians Are Leading The Resistance To Bolsonaro
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

New York Is Losing Its Human Scale – Here’s How It’s Happening
     - Email/share this:     - New York Review of Books 

Historic San Francisco Printing Plant To Become Arts Space
     - Email/share this:     - San Francisco Chronicle 

The Cultural ‘Canon’ Really Is Getting More Diverse
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

England’s Arts Funder Promises To Spend More On Early-Career Artists
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

Which Nights Sell Best For Dance And Classical Music?
     - Email/share this:     - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 

Newseum Faces Its Closing Day As A Painful Symbol
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

Always-On Culture Has Warped Our Sense of Time And Progress
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

How The On-Demand Economy Is Changing Our Experience of Cities
     - Email/share this:     - CityLab 

What Defined 2019? Ideas? People? How About Stuff?
     - Email/share this:     - Medium 

Europe’s Utter Failure To Protect Liberty In Hungary
     - Email/share this:     - The Atlantic 


MEDIA
What To Watch For At The Golden Globes
     - Email/share this:     - NBC 

Film Critics Give A Best Picture Award To ‘Parasite’
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

The Making Of ‘Maiden’
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

Streaming Has Gotten So Crowded In The UK, But Netflix Reigns Supreme, For Now
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian (UK) 

Time’s Up Releases New Guidelines For Casting And For Nude Scenes
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

How Apple Plans To Make It Big In Streaming
     - Email/share this:     - Axios 

Super Bowl Broadcast Has Generated $3.6 Billion In Ad Revenue In The Past Decade
     - Email/share this:     - The Wrap 

Progress In Hollywood: Number Of Female Directors Hits All-Time High, But Women Remain Rare In Other Behind-The-Scenes Jobs
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

Russia Relaunches Its First (Post-Soviet) International Film Festival
     - Email/share this:     - Hollywood Reporter 

Epic Bomb: “Cats” Could Lose $100 Million
     - Email/share this:     - Variety 

Asia Gets Its First-Ever LGBTQ-Focused Streaming Service
     - Email/share this:     - Yahoo! (AFP) 

How The 2010s Became The Queerest Decade Ever On Screen
     - Email/share this:     - them 

Even With Mega-Franchise Movies In 2019, Box Office Declined. Now What?
     - Email/share this:     - Variety 

Best TV Of The Decade? Try Best Types Of TV
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 

On The Internet, Anyone Can Be A Catfish
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

At The Beginning Of The Decade, Celebrities Were Worried About Paparazzi
     - Email/share this:     - BuzzFeed 

Are These Los Angeles Stereotypes A Silly Pastiche Or An Affectionate Sendup That Goes Deep?
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

Using Big Data To Compare The Various ‘Little Women’ Adaptations
     - Email/share this:     - Slate 

How Are Two Small Canadian Films Making A Splash In Hollywood?
     - Email/share this:     - CBC 


MUSIC
The Opera World Has Fads Too
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

A Kentucky Opioid Recovery Program Uses Traditional Stringed Instruments To Keep People Engaged (And Employed)
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Yes, We Do Need More New Recordings Of Classical Music
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

The #ListenWider Challenge
     - Email/share this:     - Musicology Duck 

What Caused The Death Of iTunes
     - Email/share this:     - The Atlantic 

Musicological Mythbuster Linda Shaver-Gleason: The Exit Interview
     - Email/share this:     - National Sawdust Log 

The Snopes Of Musicology? No, Linda Shaver-Gleason Has Been Much More Than That
     - Email/share this:     - San Francisco Chronicle 

The Ecological Information Embedded In Indigenous Music
     - Email/share this:     - The Conversation 

Lament For A Shuttered Music School, And For The Too-Rare Opportunity It Offered
     - Email/share this:     - Gothamist 

Why Singing In Choirs Has Become Cool Again
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

Bach’s Own Church Vandalized On New Year’s Eve
     - Email/share this:     - Deutsche Welle 

On The Edges Of A Huge South American Landfill, An Orchestra With Instruments Made Out Of Garbage
     - Email/share this:     - Al Jazeera 

Sarasota To Sarasota Symphony: Don’t Leave
     - Email/share this:     - Sarasota Herald Tribune 

Jimmy Iovine: The Music Business’s Looming Problem
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

How Opera Is Dealing With #MeToo
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times (AP) 

The End Of A Decade-Long Music Project That Was Originally Meant To Be A One-Off
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 


PEOPLE
When A Pimp Stabbed Samuel Beckett Nearly To Death
     - Email/share this:     - The Independent (UK) 

T.S. Eliot’s Love Letters To A Woman Not His Wife Are Being Made Public — And He Left A Bitchy Note To Posterity To Go With Them
     - Email/share this:     - Slate 

Scholar Gertrude Himmelfarb, 94
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post (AP) 

Lily Tomlin At 80
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times Magazine 

Jack Sheldon, Revered Jazz Trumpeter And ‘Schoolhouse Rock!’ Star, Dead At 88
     - Email/share this:     - Yahoo! 

Opera Director Harry Kupfer, 84
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post (AP) 

Longtime Legendary Knopf Editor Sonny Mehta, 77
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Barbara Testa, Who Discovered One Of American Literature’s Great Missing Links, Dead At 91
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

Alasdair Gray, Godfather Of Scotland’s Late-20th-Century Literary Renaissance, Dead At 85
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

Prolific Movie Producer David Foster Has Died At 90
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

Sue Lyon, Who Starred In ‘Lolita’ When She Was 14, Has Died At 73
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

Arthur L. Singer, Who Helped Set The Stage For Public Television, Has Died At 90
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 


THEATRE
After 15 Years, The New York Musical Festival Has Shut Down For Good
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

The 2010s In Black British Theatre
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

Anne Bogart On The Difference Between Looking And Seeing
     - Email/share this:     - SITI 

For The First Time, The Most Influential Person In British Theatre Is An Actor: The Stage 100 For 2020
     - Email/share this:     - The Stage 

Legendary Leaders: Foundry’s Melanie Joseph and Playwrights Horizons’ Tim Sanford Talk About What They Did Right
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

‘Her Invention Is Ceaseless, Her Influence Is Profound’ — Playwright Lucy Kirkwood Pays Tribute To Caryl Churchill
     - Email/share this:     - American Theatre 

Why Do Other Art Forms – Books, Movies, TV – Make Fun Of Theatre?
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

French Theatre’s Conflicts Are Starting To Fray The Humans On All Sides
     - Email/share this:     - Le Monde 

Puppetry Can Do A Lot More Than Look Good On Stage Or Screen [VIDEO]
     - Email/share this:     - BBC 

The Old-Fashioned Theatrical Magic Of The Harry Potter Plays
     - Email/share this:     - NPR 


VISUAL
An Architect Says The Building Industry Pollutes The World, And Must Change
     - Email/share this:     - Fast Company 

What’s Happening To Airports? They’re Becoming Theme Park Fantasies
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

200 More Terracotta Warriors Found
     - Email/share this:     - Artnet 

Governors Of St. Mark’s In Venice Want 6½-Foot Flood Wall In Square
     - Email/share this:     - The Art Newspaper 

How Yellow Lost Its Good Reputation
     - Email/share this:     - Literary Review 

How Clyfford Still, For Better And Worse, Kept Iron Control Over The Market For His Paintings
     - Email/share this:     - Artsy 

The 20 Least Powerful In The Art World
     - Email/share this:     - Hyperallergic 

Picasso Painting Attacked At Tate Modern
     - Email/share this:     - BBC 

Notre Dame’s Risky New Phase
     - Email/share this:     - The Art Newspaper 

Remains Of Ancient Mayan Palace Discovered In Yucatán
     - Email/share this:     - Smithsonian Magazine 

A Decade Ago E-Books Were Going To Take Over Publishing. They Didn’t
     - Email/share this:     - Vox 

Modernist Architecture Is Uncomfortable, Doesn’t Wear Well, And Depresses People. So Why Did It Catch On?
     - Email/share this:     - Inference Review 

That Time Hallmark Rejected Salvador Dali’s Christmas Cards
     - Email/share this:     - Open Culture 


WORDS
 What’s Going To Happen To This 10,000-Member Writers’ Association If It Can’t Get Itself Together About Racism?
     - Email/share this:     - NPR 

 How To Vote For An Oscar Script
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

 Even Comic Book Characters Created In 2011 Need A Makeover After *That* Decade
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Review of Books 

 When You Hear That Your Book Just Made The Bestseller List
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

 Is Walt Whitman The Writer We’ll Need In 2020?
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

 T.S. Eliot’s Love Letters To A Woman Not His Wife Are Being Made Public — And He Left A Bitchy Note To Posterity To Go With Them
     - Email/share this:     - Slate 

 Who’s Still Reading The Supermarket Tabloids?
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

 ‘The Four Horsemen Of Asian-American Literature’
     - Email/share this:     - The New Yorker 

 Eleven Publishing Trends That Shaped The 2010s
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 

 What John Dos Passos’s ‘1919’ (And The Rest Of The ‘U.S.A.’ Trilogy) Got Right About 2019
     - Email/share this:     - The New Yorker 

 What A Crossword Created By A Computational Linguistics Researcher Looks Like
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 

 UNESCO And The Fight Over “World” Literature
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Review of Books 

 Audible And Publishers May Soon Reach A Deal About Those ‘Captions’
     - Email/share this:     - Publishers Weekly 

 The New York Times’ Highlights Of This Year In Books
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

 The Quiet Death Of A Legendary Paris Bookstore (And The Rising Rents That Are To Blame)
     - Email/share this:     - Literary Hub 

 Barack Obama Releases The List Of His Favorite Books Of 2019
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 



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