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FROM TODAY'S ARTSJOURNAL BLOGS
Artful Manager: The Book 

I’m thrilled to announce the publication of The Artful Manager: Field Notes on the Business of Arts and Culture in paperback and eBook formats. This book gathers 50 posts from the first 18 years of The Artful Manager blog – edited, updated, complemented with opening quotes, and sorted into three themes. – Andrew Taylor

 


Newark’s Quirks: Examining the Museum’s (& Sotheby’s) Art Sale Shenanigans 

In my previous post on the Newark Museum of Art’s dicey deaccessions, I didn’t analyze the overall sale totals, my customary practice when covering auctions. Here’s why: It took a while for me to assemble the information I needed, because Sotheby’s now intentionally withholds the figures that I’ve habitually relied upon to evaluate results. – Lee Rosenbaum

 



 
TODAY'S ARTS & CULTURE NEWS ~ 06/06/2021

DANCE
The Nexus Of Dance And Drag Is Growing
     - Email/share this:     - Dance Magazine 

Carolyn North, Still Dancing At 83
     - Email/share this:     - San Francisco Classical Voice 

Queering Flamenco (Which Could Really Use It)
     - Email/share this:     - The New Yorker 

Long Discreetly Camouflaged, Lesbians In Ballet Are Starting to Find Themselves And Each Other
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

Why Sarah Lane Quietly Slipped Away From ABT
     - Email/share this:     - Pointe Magazine 

The 106-Year-Old Dancer Who Hates The Word Old
     - Email/share this:     - BBC 

Liam Scarlett’s Death Did Not Happen The Way Everyone Presumed It Did
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

These Protesters Faced Down The Colombian Cops By Voguing
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

Swiss Ballet School Fires Director And Manager, Suspends All Classes
     - Email/share this:     - FranceInfo 

A Choreographer Finds Her Voice
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 


IDEAS
Just Chill, And Enjoy Being An Amateur
     - Email/share this:     - Psyche 

Puppies Are Now Born Ready To Communicate With Humans
     - Email/share this:     - Smithsonian 

How Memory Works
     - Email/share this:     - LitHub 

What Brain-Computer Interfaces Will Do To Our Ideas Of Free Will
     - Email/share this:     - Three Quarks Daily 

The Science Of Pleasure
     - Email/share this:     - Psyche 

There Is No Such Thing As Renaissance Philosophy
     - Email/share this:     - Aeon 

Los Angeles Is The United States’ Largest City-State
     - Email/share this:     - The Atlantic 

How Eataly Has Changed Our Understanding Of Italian Food
     - Email/share this:     - Vittles 

New Research Says That Sleep Evolved Before Brains
     - Email/share this:     - Wired 


ISSUES
Can We Ever Trust A Recorded Image Again?
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian (UK) 

Kim’s Convenience Actor Calls Out Producers, Pay Issues
     - Email/share this:     - CBC 

Saudi Arabia Aims Its Cultural Diplomacy Blitz At Greece
     - Email/share this:     - Artnet 

Why Is Philly’s Post-Pandemic Arts Budget So Anemic?
     - Email/share this:     - Philadelphia Inquirer 

Mellon Foundation Is Giving $125 Million In Recovery Funding To Artists And Small Orgs Across New York
     - Email/share this:     - ARTnews 

Some Performance Venues Are Having Way Too Hard A Time Getting Federal Relief Money
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

In England, An Attempt To Redefine Culture
     - Email/share this:     - The Stage (UK) 

‘Uncancel Culture’: Kevin Spacey, Aziz Ansari, Mel Gibson, Louis CK …
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

As Travel Resumes, Can Italy Make Tourism Any Less Destructive?
     - Email/share this:     - Apollo 

Mary Beard: Ancient Rome Never Disappoints
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Australia’s National Arts Policy Needs A Rethink
     - Email/share this:     - ArtsHub 

Arts Groups To UK: Thanks For Offering Us Relief Funding — Now Could You Please Actually Send It?
     - Email/share this:     - The Stage 

One Potential Fix For That Cecil Rhodes Statue At Oxford
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian (UK) 


MEDIA
A Return To Movie Theatres, Or Not, Summer Watchlist
     - Email/share this:     - The Atlantic 

John Boyega Exits Netflix Production Mid-Filming
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian (UK) 

The Challenges Ahead For Media’s Newest Giant Company
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

Livestreaming Is Changing Public Access
     - Email/share this:     - CJR 

How Alamo Drafthouse Pulled Itself Out Of Chapter 11 In 12 Weeks
     - Email/share this:     - Vulture 

Hong Kong’s State Broadcaster Forbidden To Report Political News
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

Women’s Interests In Gaming May Finally Become Mainstream
     - Email/share this:     - Wired 

Supply Chain Shortages Are Costing Hollywood A Bundle
     - Email/share this:     - The Hollywood Reporter 

When Xerox And ‘101 Dalmatians’ Saved Disney’s Animation Studio
     - Email/share this:     - Smithsonian Magazine 

Now Netflix Wants To Move Into Video Games
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

Disney Is Rebranding Villains And Trying To Pretend That’s Feminist
     - Email/share this:     - Slate 

Clint Eastwood Is 91, And He’s Directed 17 Films Just Since He Turned 70
     - Email/share this:     - Variety 

How ‘In The Heights’ Became The Post-Pandemic Movie Of The Summer
     - Email/share this:     - Yahoo! (Chicago Tribune) 

The Era Of The Big Comedy Film Is Over
     - Email/share this:     - Prospect (UK) 

Oh, Great — Now Going Back To Movie Theaters Will Become Part Of The Culture Wars
     - Email/share this:     - Variety 

Why ‘The Great British Baking Show’, ‘Project Runway’, And Other Reality TV Competitions Have Been The Hits Of The COVID Era
     - Email/share this:     - The American Scholar 

Hollywood Producers Want A Union, Too
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

Can The Movies Recover From The Pandemic?
     - Email/share this:     - Variety 

The Food Design Of Mare Of Easttown
     - Email/share this:     - Salon 


MUSIC
Bach, But Make It Upside Down
     - Email/share this:     - NPR 

Bothsidesism Leads To Offensively Inoffensive Opera
     - Email/share this:     - Van Magazine 

Andras Schiff Embraces Historical Instruments
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

What Are Companies Planning To Do With All Those Music Catalogs?
     - Email/share this:     - Variety 

If US Orchestras Want More Diverse Conductors, They Have A Source Of Them Very Near At Hand
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

Confusion And Upheaval At New Zealand Opera As One-Third Of Board Resigns
     - Email/share this:     - Radio New Zealand 

Tenor Russell Thomas ‘Plays’ It Forward
     - Email/share this:     -  San Francisco Classical Voice 

Investment Funds Are Obsessed With Old Rock And Pop Songs – Why?
     - Email/share this:     - Culture Notes of an Honest Broker 

JoAnn Falletta’s Successor At Virginia Symphony Is Eric Jacobsen Of The Knights And Brooklyn Rider
     - Email/share this:     - The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, Va.) 

How Wrens Coordinate Their Intricately Interlocking Songs
     - Email/share this:     - Phys.org 

The Hollywood Bowl Is On Plan C, Full Reopen
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

An Opera By The Dean Of Black American Composers Finally Retakes The Stage
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

Opera Singer Adrian Angelico Says The Art Form Helped Him Come Out As Trans
     - Email/share this:     - BBC 

A Sound Check In Inglewood
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 


PEOPLE
Sophie Rivera, Photographer Of Puerto Rican New York, 82
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Frederike Mayrocker, Grande Dame Of German Language Poets, 96
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Escaping The ‘Teen On Disney’ Trap
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 

Luis Biasotto, Argentine Dancer And Choreographer, Dies Of COVID At 49
     - Email/share this:     - Dance Magazine 

George Beasley, Dead At 89, Built A US Radio Empire
     - Email/share this:     - Billboard 

Dan Frank, Brave And Influential Chief Editor Of Pantheon Books, Dead At 67
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

Arturo Luz, Neo-Realist And Key Figure In Art Spaces In The Philippines, 94
     - Email/share this:     - The Art Newspaper 

Violetta Elvin, Royal Ballet Prima Ballerina, 97
     - Email/share this:     - Gramilano 

Preserving The Jail Where Oscar Wilde Was Imprisoned
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Remembering Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, Famed Canadian Architect
     - Email/share this:     - Wallpaper 

Lois Ehlert, Illustrator Of Colorful Books Like Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, 86
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Raimund Hoghe, Who Created Dances For His Own Nonnormative Body, Dead At 72
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

Liam Scarlett’s Death Did Not Happen The Way Everyone Presumed It Did
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

Chi Modu, Photographer Who Shaped Rap’s Visual Identity, 5
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 


THEATRE
The National Black Theater Makes A High-Rise Decision
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

A Mining Company Sponsors A Fringe Festival No More
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian (UK) 

So Many Acting Students, So Few Living Wage Jobs
     - Email/share this:     - The Stage (UK) 

Kneehigh, Acclaimed Theatre Company, Abruptly Shuts Down
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

Broadway Theatre Owner Cited In Stagehand’s Death
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

‘Why Should The Best Show People Somehow Keep Making The Dullest, Tackiest Hodgepodge Of A Tony Awards Show?’
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

Running The Rodgers And Hammerstein Organization For 40 Years (What A Job!)
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

Allegations Of Sexual Misconduct, And Even Assault, Rock English Drama Schools
     - Email/share this:     - The Telegraph (UK) 

Getting New York’s Comedy Clubs Reopened Is No Laughing Matter
     - Email/share this:     - Gothamist 

Some Indoor Theatres Have Migrated Outside For Their First Reopening Season
     - Email/share this:     - American Theatre 


VISUAL
Check Your Local Little Free Art Gallery If You’re In Need Of Visual Stimulation
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 

Art Basel Will Take Place In September
     - Email/share this:     - Artnet 

The Studio Of Corita Kent, L.A.’s ‘Pop Art Nun,’ Earns Historic Status
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

Artist Auctions Off Invisible Sculpture
     - Email/share this:     - Artnet 

A Dissident Cuban Artist Is Released From Hospital
     - Email/share this:     - Yahoo News (AFP) 

Greece Will Improve Access To The Acropolis
     - Email/share this:     - France24 (AFP) 

Scholars In Belgium Are Ready For Restitution Guidelines
     - Email/share this:     - Artnet 

Drainage Workers In Malta Uncover A 2300-Year-Old Tomb
     - Email/share this:     - ARTnews 

Pompidou Center To Open First U.S. Branch In — Wait, Where?
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

As Pandemic Lifts, US Museums Are In Less Dire Shape Than Feared
     - Email/share this:     - Artnet 

The Independence Of UK Museums May Be In Danger
     - Email/share this:     - Apollo Magazine 

Gallery Assistants Aren’t Earning A Living Wage
     - Email/share this:     - Artnet 

Mexico Forcibly Halts Illegal Construction Next To Teotihuacán
     - Email/share this:     - AP 

Louvre Will Get New Department Of Byzantine And Coptic Art, Says New Director
     - Email/share this:     - ARTnews 

The Prado Is Taking Its Art To The Streets
     - Email/share this:     - Artnet 

When ISIS Made Off With A Magritte Nude (Which Made It Back Intact!)
     - Email/share this:     - Vanity Fair 

At 4,300 Years, This May The World’s Oldest War Memorial
     - Email/share this:     - Live Science 

Ai Weiwei’s Thoughts On China, Colonialism, And Controversial Statues
     - Email/share this:     - The Observer (UK) 

Could Museums Become Like Libraries?
     - Email/share this:     - The Nation 

Why A Photographer Asked Her Subjects To Pose In Victorian Dress
     - Email/share this:     - NPR 

The Specialized Bacteria Cleaning Michelangelo’s Masterpieces
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Barcelona’s City Council Rejects A Proposed Branch Of The Hermitage
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian (UK) 


WORDS
 What Novelists Can Learn From The Marvel Comics Universe
     - Email/share this:     - LitHub 

 What America’s Best-Selling Books Say About Americans
     - Email/share this:     - The New Yorker 

 Conservative Publishers Are Finding ‘Ice Cold’ Market For Books Trashing Joe Biden
     - Email/share this:     - The Atlantic 

 Hobby Lobby Sues Professor Who Allegedly Sold Them Papyri Stolen From Oxford
     - Email/share this:     - Artnet 

 Millennials Are Killing Off The Philly Accent
     - Email/share this:     - Mental Floss 

 The Complicated Legacy Of Betty Crocker
     - Email/share this:     - LitHub 

 International Booker Prize Goes To David Diop’s ‘At Night All Blood Is Black’
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

 Solving One Problem With Publishing Genres
     - Email/share this:     - NPR 

 How Atlas Obscura Is Decolonizing — No, Enhancing — Its Content
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

 These Unpublished Charles Schultz Cartoons Are About (!!) Adults
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 

 The Two Women Who Preserved The Stories Of The Tulsa Race Massacre
     - Email/share this:     - The New Yorker 

 Forget Art And Gems, The Real Money’s In The Library
     - Email/share this:     - The Daily Beast 



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