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Pandemic Polemics: Metropolitan Museum’s Off-Key NPR Message vs. Cleveland’s Harmonious Storage Show 

The Met’s premature revelation that it might take advantage of the AAMD’s relaxed deaccession standards, selling art to pay for “care of the collection,” was an object lesson in how not to roll out a controversial, temporary policy change. A palate-cleansing corrective to that unappetizing situation can be found in Stories from Storage, a current show at the Cleveland Museum of Art. – Lee Rosenbaum

 



 
TODAY'S ARTS & CULTURE NEWS ~ 03/07/2021

DANCE
COVID Is Back At La Scala Ballet
     - Email/share this:     - Gramilano (Milan) 

What Exactly Constitutes A Good Female Body For Ballet?
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

Dance Through The Mailbox
     - Email/share this:     - Reuters 

Has COVID Shutdown Made Dancers More Adaptable?
     - Email/share this:     - Dance Magazine 

Texas Ballet Theatre Loses Its Headquarters To Winter Storm
     - Email/share this:     - CultureMap (Texas) 


IDEAS
Battleground Over Truth (Whatever That Is)
     - Email/share this:     - Boston Review 

The Mind As Computer? It Doesn’t Work That Way
     - Email/share this:     - Psyche 

Maybe Human-Centric Design Isn’t The Best Way To Design?
     - Email/share this:     - Psyche 

Italy Has Too Much Tourism. How To Fix? The Uffizi Has A Plan
     - Email/share this:     - CNN 

The Virtue Of Ethics
     - Email/share this:     - 3 Quarks Daily 

Social Scientist: We Need To Treat Disinformation With A Vaccine
     - Email/share this:     - Rolling Stone 

The Pronouns Problem
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Review of Books 

American Cynicism Has Reached Our Breaking Point
     - Email/share this:     - The Atlantic 

Studies: EMail Is Making You Miserable!
     - Email/share this:     - The New Yorker 


ISSUES
The Toll This Year Took On The People Responsible For Explaining The Toll This Year Was Taking
     - Email/share this:     - Slate 

Still Trying To Sort Out The Critic’s Role In A Very Changed Reality
     - Email/share this:     - Hyperallergic 

Artists Hope Biden Immigration Policies Will Make It Easier To Collaborate Internationally
     - Email/share this:     - Artnet 

Culture Is Everywhere Online. But How To Find It?
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

Illinois’s Reopening Rules Make No Sense For Chicago’s Arts Venues
     - Email/share this:     - Yahoo! (Chicago Tribune) 

BAM Gave Its President Nearly $1 Million To Buy New Apartment (And Then She Quit)
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

Australia’s Big Festivals Try To Play During COVID – With Mixed Success
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

What Happens To LA’s Black Culture When The Black Population Shrinks?
     - Email/share this:     - LAist 

Small-Scale Indoor Performances To Return To New York In April
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

Requiring Audiences To Present Vaccine Passports — Would It Be Feasible?
     - Email/share this:     - Yahoo! (Chicago Tribune) 

UK Artists Have Been Hit With A Double Whammy
     - Email/share this:     - Apollo 

UK To Spend Another Half Biillion For Arts Sector’s COVID Recovery
     - Email/share this:     - Variety 


MEDIA
Some Are Vaccinated, And Very Ready To See A Movie In The Theatre Again
     - Email/share this:     - Variety 

Berlin Film Fest Awards Its First Gender-Neutral Acting Award
     - Email/share this:     - BBC 

Wait, Disney Wants Us To Pay *How Much* For The New Princess Movie?
     - Email/share this:     - Fast Company 

Chloe Zhao Makes History With Her Golden Globe, And China Reacts With Anger At Past Remarks
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

The Man Whose Job Is To Convince Us To Go Back To Movie Theatres
     - Email/share this:     - Chicago Tribune 

New York City Is Reopening Movie Theaters
     - Email/share this:     - Variety 

Is It Really Possible To Crowdsource Misinformation On Twitter?
     - Email/share this:     - The Atlantic 

Why Do Asian Actors Keep Getting Overlooked For Awards, Even As The Films They’re In Get Honored?
     - Email/share this:     - The Atlantic 

The Toronto Star Bets The Future On A Casino
     - Email/share this:     - CBC 

Where AI Can Really Help Public Radio
     - Email/share this:     - Google's The Keyword 

Moving Berlinale Film Festival Is An Economic Blow To Berlin
     - Email/share this:     - Variety 

Sorry, But The Golden Globes Are Just Problematic.
     - Email/share this:     - Chicago Tribune 

What Happens When Public TV And Radio Stations Combine With Digital News Startups
     - Email/share this:     - NiemanLab 

Amazon Films Are Getting More Respect
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

What The Writers Guild Learned From Its Fight With The Agencies
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

Ripping Up The Netflix Streaming Playbook, And Winning
     - Email/share this:     - Fast Company 

Julie Delpy, Sci-Fi Movie Director
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 


MUSIC
Margaret Atwood Wrote The Words For A New Song Cycle About Murdered Women
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian (UK) 

What It’s Like Singing ‘Strange Fruit’ In 2021
     - Email/share this:     - NPR 

COVID Accelerated Trends By Ten Years. What Does That Mean For Classical Music?
     - Email/share this:     - Ludwig Van 

The Astounding Pianist And Composer Who Was Born Into Slavery
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

How One Jazz Musician Figured Out How To Play Live With Friends Over The Internet
     - Email/share this:     - The New Yorker 

Explaining Taylor Swift Musicologically (It’s Cool!)
     - Email/share this:     - The New Yorker 

Streaming Music Is Big Business — So Why Do Classical Musicians Get So Little Money From It?
     - Email/share this:     - Bachtrack 

The Unkindness Of Booing
     - Email/share this:     - San Francisco Chronicle 

Ice Music: Performing Pieces On, And For, Literally Frozen Instruments
     - Email/share this:     - National Geographic 

At The Detroit Symphony’s Virtual Orchestra Hall, Inside The Head Of A (Virtual) Listener
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 

Glimmerglass Opera Festival To Build Outdoor Stage For 2021
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

James Darrah On The Future Of Opera
     - Email/share this:     - LBPost 

The Man Who Figured Out How To Make Millions On Song Rights
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

Vienna Philharmonic Sends Letter In Support Of Met Opera Orchestra
     - Email/share this:     - Gramilano 


PEOPLE
Naomi Rosenblum, Historian Of Photography Who Forced Others To See It As Art, 96
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Patrick Dupond, Star And Director Of Paris Opera Ballet, Dead At 61
     - Email/share this:     - Gramilano (Milan) 

Chris Barber, Trombonist Who Shaped Britain’s Jazz Scene, Dead At 90
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

Lessons On How To Have An “Exquisitely Managed Career” By Philip Roth
     - Email/share this:     - BookForum 

Remembering Lawrence Ferlinghetti
     - Email/share this:     - Rolling Stone 

Roger Englander, Pioneering Producer Of Classical Music On TV, Dead At 94
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 

Alan Bowness, 93, Former Director Of Tate Galleries And Co-Founder Of Turner Prize
     - Email/share this:     - ARTnews 

What’s Anthony Hopkins’s Secret? ‘No Acting Required’
     - Email/share this:     - The New Yorker 

Carmen Esposito’s Memoir Called ‘Save Yourself’ Came Out Just As Pandemic Lockdowns Hit
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 


THEATRE
Will European Audiences Come Back To The Theatre?
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

A Tour Of Plays In Storefront Windows
     - Email/share this:     - American Theatre 

COVID Could Not Stop The Wooster Group
     - Email/share this:     - New York Magazine 

How Weird Are This Season’s Tony Awards Going To Be?
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

Why Working Digitally Will Be Here To Stay In The Theatre
     - Email/share this:     - The Stage 

What Have Theatre Artists Been Doing This Past Year? Eight Tell Their Stories
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

On Zoom, Vimeo, PBS, Or An iPod, If A Theatre Company Does It, Is It Still Theatre?
     - Email/share this:     - American Theatre 

Survey: When Theatre-Goers Will Be Ready To Return To Theatres
     - Email/share this:     - American Theatre 

Reviewing The First Play Written By An Artificial Intelligence Bot
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

How To Reopen Theatres Safely? Artists Turn To Global Network
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 

Stratford Festival Will Open This Summer, But With A Short Season Held In Tents
     - Email/share this:     - Global News (Canada) 

Australian Theatre Is Lighting The Way For The West End And Broadway
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 


VISUAL
The Planned V&A Restructuring Will Take Away Most Of The National Art Library’s Librarians
     - Email/share this:     - The Observer (UK) 

In Japan, ‘Disaster Art’ Is Saving People’s Lives
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Lockdown Repainting In The Louvre Leads To A Lawsuit
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Sydney’s Museum Of Contemporary Art Is The Most Visited In The World
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian (UK) 

Egon Schiele Gave A Watercolor To His Dentist As Payment, And Then It Was Looted By Nazis
     - Email/share this:     - Hyperallergic 

So, Let’s Talk About The Six Hundred Thousand Dollar Meme Art
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian (UK) 

Six Philadelphia Museums Combined Resources During COVID. It Transformed How They Do Their Work
     - Email/share this:     - Artnet 

Musée Rodin In Paris May Be Ordered To Release 3D Scans Of Sculptures
     - Email/share this:     - The Art Newspaper 

Germany To Start Reopening Museums
     - Email/share this:     - Reuters 

Changing Roles For Museums Mean Confusion In How They’re Supported
     - Email/share this:     - ARTnews 

What Galleries Learned About Selling Art Online This Year
     - Email/share this:     - Artnet 

Louvre Gets Back 450-Year-Old Armor Stolen 39 Years Ago
     - Email/share this:     - Yahoo! (AFP) 

Reviving Mosul’s Cultural Museum, Six Years After ISIS Destroyed It
     - Email/share this:     - Artnet 

So Who Made Pantone The Boss Of Colors Anyway?
     - Email/share this:     - Slate 

Boy Scouts To Sell Off Norman Rockwell Collection To Pay For Abuse Claims
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Mausoleum Of Emperor Augustus, Long Neglected, Now Restored and Reopening
     - Email/share this:     - Yahoo! (The Telegraph, UK) 

A Little Island Grows Off Manhattan
     - Email/share this:     - Aerate 

What Was ‘The Mona Lisa Of Ancient Egypt’? A Gaggle Of Geese
     - Email/share this:     - Artnet 

Unknown Titian Painting Identified In English Village Church
     - Email/share this:     - BBC 

‘Lamborghini’ Of Ancient Roman Chariots Unearthed At Pompeii
     - Email/share this:     - NPR 

The ‘Versailles Of Wales’ Is Falling Into Ruin
     - Email/share this:     - The Observer (UK) 

Ireland, Britain Reach Agreement In Century-Long Dispute Over Art Collection
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian (UK) 

The ‘Guernica’ Replica Tapestry Hanging In The UN Has Been Repossessed By Its Rockefeller Owner
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

A 127-Year-Old Spanish Sports Venue Would Like To Become A Heritage Site
     - Email/share this:     - The Observer (UK) 

How To Smell A Dutch Still Life, Virtually
     - Email/share this:     - The Observer (UK) 


WORDS
 Math, Music, And Moby Dick
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

 Pandemic Inspires 1200 New German Words
     - Email/share this:     - NPR 

 Long Before This Year’s Announcement, Read Across America Was Turning Away From Dr. Seuss Books
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

 A Lot Of Black People Already Knew About Dr. Seuss
     - Email/share this:     - The Atlantic 

 How Did Dr. Seuss Himself Respond When Criticized For Racist Caricatures?
     - Email/share this:     - Slate 

 Dr. Seuss Sales Soar After Publishers Withdraw Six Books With Racist Caricatures
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

 Alt-Weeklies Looked Doomed Even Before The Pandemic. Here’s How Some Of Them Have Hung On
     - Email/share this:     - The Daily Beast 

 Read Nabokov’s Long-Lost Superman Poem, Now In Print At Last
     - Email/share this:     - Times Literary Supplement (UK) 

 A Critic Reviews 125 Years Of The NYT’s Book Reviews
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

 ‘Lolita’ Is A Horrifying Story. How Does It Keep Getting Past Obscenity Laws, Let Alone Cancel Culture?
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

 Six Dr. Seuss Books Withdrawn For ‘Hurtful And Wrong’ Portrayals
     - Email/share this:     - AP 

 Bookshop.com Generates £1 Million For Indie UK Bookstores
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

 Artificial Intelligence Has A Grammar Problem
     - Email/share this:     - The Economist 

 MIT Has Figured Out How To Read Unopened 17th-Century Letters
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

 Off With All Our Heads – The Online World Loves To Misquote Lewis Carroll
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian (UK) 

 Books: A Coronavirus Lifesaver
     - Email/share this:     - BBC 



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