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FROM TODAY'S ARTSJOURNAL BLOGS

In Memoriam: Sally Banes (1950-2020)

A tribute to the brash, quick-talking, brilliant, no-nonsense scholar, writer, colleague, and friend whom I once taught, worked with, and learned from. – Deborah Jowitt

“Overhead Premium”: Sotheby’s Invents a New Fee for Buyers

Sotheby’s has quietly upped its charges for purchasers of its offerings: An “Overhead Premium” of 1% of the auction hammer price will supplement its buyer’s premium, effective Aug. 1. – Lee Rosenbaum

TODAY'S ARTS & CULTURE NEWS ~ 06/21/2020

DANCE

Voguing Was Never Just Dance [VIDEO]
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San Francisco Ballet To Go Ahead With 2021 Winter Season, And Maybe Even 2020 ‘Nutcracker’
- Email/share this:     - San Francisco Chronicle

New York City Ballet, Chicago’s Joffrey Ballet Cancel Fall Seasons, Including ‘Nutcracker’
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PHILADANCO At 50
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Rebuilding An Indigenous Dance Culture Post-Soviet
- Email/share this:     - Calvert Journal

Martha Graham’s Lost Spanish Civil War Solo, Reimagined Twice
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Dance On The Internet – Not Really The Real Thing, Is It?
- Email/share this:     - The New Yorker

IDEAS

What The Horrifyingly Endless Videos Of Black Pain Mean
- Email/share this:     - The New York Times

Maybe Now Is The Time To Reconsider Rousseau’s Radical Education Idea
- Email/share this:     - Aeon

Between Crossed Circuits Of The Brain And Creativity
- Email/share this:     - Nautilus

How Nostalgia Gets Us Launched Into The Future
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The End Of The Liberal World Order
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Philosophy Born Of Isolation
- Email/share this:     - Times Literary Supplement

ISSUES

As Juniper Serra Statue Goes Down, Activists Want The Site To Tell A More Truthful History
- Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times

For What Do We Need Nations?
- Email/share this:     - The Point

Jenny Bilfield: Making The Transition To Meaningful Online
- Email/share this:     - Washingtonian

Nearly Two-Thirds Of U.S. Arts Groups Surveyed Expect To Resume Performances By End Of 2020 (Brits Aren’t So Optimistic)
- Email/share this:     - TRG Arts

Drive-in Performing Arts Gigs Are Catching On In The UK
- Email/share this:     - The Guardian

Measuring The Pandemic Effects On Pittsburgh Arts
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What Other Governments Are Spending To Save Their Nations’ Arts Sectors From COVID Collapse
- Email/share this:     - The Guardian

COVID Could Cost UK’s Arts And Culture Sector $94 Billion And 400,000 Jobs: Study
- Email/share this:     - Artnet

Australia’s Largest State Set Aside $50 Million For COVID Arts Relief. None Of It Has Been Given Out
- Email/share this:     - The Guardian

Two Major Canadian Alt-Weeklies Say They’ll Reduce Arts Coverage
- Email/share this:     - Ludwig Van

European Cities Experience Life Without Tourists. And They Start Wondering…
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New Research: Attitudes About Free Speech And Regulation Online
- Email/share this:     - Knight Foundation

Can This Businessman Turn Old Kentucky Coal Mines Into Arts Centers?
- Email/share this:     - The Art Newspaper

UNESCO Gets Started On Project To Restore War-Ravaged Mosul
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Survey: Artists Are The Most Non-Essential Workers
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Will People Flee Cities In Post-COVID World? Preliminary Findings Say No
- Email/share this:     - CityLab

Arts Organizations Asked Patrons To Donate Their Tickets Instead Of Getting Refunds. Did They?
- Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times

MEDIA

Are Sex Scenes Over Now?
- Email/share this:     - The Atlantic

The Uncounted Lives That ‘Rocky Horror’ Has Saved
- Email/share this:     - BBC

AMC Theatres Backtracks, Will Require Audiences To Wear Masks
- Email/share this:     - The Daily Beast

Boston Public Radio Station WBUR Lays Off 29 Staffers
- Email/share this:     - Boston.com

To This We’ve Come: A Reality Show Where Men Compete To Impregnate A Woman
- Email/share this:     - The Guardian

‘Live From Here With Chris Thile’, Successor To ‘A Prairie Home Companion’, Cancelled
- Email/share this:     - Billboard

It’s Been Very Difficult To Make TV Shows That Depict The Police Realistically
- Email/share this:     - Huffington Post

Australia Wants Online Platforms To Pay For News. Facebook Says: We Don’t Need It
- Email/share this:     - The Guardian

The Lasting Damage That Movies Like “Gone With The Wind” Have Wrought
- Email/share this:     - The Guardian

In Postponing The Oscars, The Academy Blew A Golden Opportunity — To Not Change Any Dates At All
- Email/share this:     - Vulture

Voice Of America’s Two Top Officials Resign As Trump Ally Take Over Parent Agency
- Email/share this:     - NPR

A Deep Dive Into The Alternative Universe Of YouTube
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Film Festival Choice: Go Dark Or Go Virtual
- Email/share this:     - Washington Post

UK Cinemark Cancels Purchase Of Canada’s Cineplex Theatre Chain
- Email/share this:     - Washington Post (AP)

MUSIC

Gathering And Honoring – And Playing – The Music Of The Death Camps
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The Music Of The Revolutions
- Email/share this:     - OPB (Portland)

COVID Risks For Wind Players
- Email/share this:     - University of Iowa

What Diversity Means In The Choral World
- Email/share this:     - NewMusicBox

Pay Cuts And Furloughs At Dallas Symphony
- Email/share this:     - Dallas Morning News

Carnegie Hall And Lincoln Center Cancel All Performances Through End Of 2020
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Orchestre De Paris Names Music Director
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Why Satie Might Be The Perfect Composer For Now
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Turns Out There Are Benefits To Teaching Harp Online
- Email/share this:     - WBUR

How I Co-Wrote An Opera About A Black Policeman’s Son Shot By Another Policeman
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How Dallas Opera Became A Facebook Star
- Email/share this:     - Art and Seek (KERA)

Organizers Of Woodstock 50 Sue Investors That Yanked Funding And Caused Event’s Collapse
- Email/share this:     - Rolling Stone

The Socially-Distanced Orchestra – What’s The Repertoire?
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Drillosophy: Using Drill Music To Teach Philosophy, And A Million Young People Sign On
- Email/share this:     - BBC

Leadership Succession Crisis At Paris Opera
- Email/share this:     - France 24 (AFP)

Drive-In Concerts In High Demand
- Email/share this:     - The Guardian

How Music Can Boost Your Running Performance
- Email/share this:     - The Guardian

PEOPLE

Sally Banes, Distinguished Dance Critic And Historian, 69
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Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Author Of The Shadow Of The Wind, 55
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Why Werner Herzog Loves So-Called Trash TV
- Email/share this:     - The Guardian (UK)

The “Bernie Madoff Of The Art World” Had Settled Into Vacation Life
- Email/share this:     - The Daily Beast

Actor Ian Holm, 88
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Composer Frederick C. Tillis, Who Excelled In Jazz And Classical Alike, Dead At 90
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Vera Lynn, Britain’s Singing Sweetheart Of World War II, Dead At 103
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Dance Critic Sally Banes, 70
- Email/share this:     - Wendy Perron

Kristin Linklater, Revered Vocal Coach For Actors, Dead At 84
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Jon Stewart Has Been Awfully Quiet These Past Few Years. What Does He Think About All This?
- Email/share this:     - New York Times Magazine

The Objectionable Flannery O’Connor
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Cynthia Navaretta, Women Artists’ Advocate, 97
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THEATRE

It Took Richard Pryor To Change How Comedy Sees The Police
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American Theatre Magazine Shuts Its Print Edition Through The Rest Of The Year
- Email/share this:     - American Theatre

Chicago’s iO Theater, Mainstay Of City’s Comedy Scene, To Close For Good
- Email/share this:     - Vulture

Edinburgh Fringe, On Brink Of Insolvency, Gets A Rescue
- Email/share this:     - The Scotsman

Audiences For Children’s Theater Are Quite Diverse. The Creators, Not So Much.
- Email/share this:     - New York Times

L.A.’s Mark Taper Forum, Ahmanson, and Kirk Douglas Theatres Will Stay Closed Until Late Next Spring
- Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times

Chicago’s Mercury Theater Closes Permanently Due To Corona-Lockdown
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Upright Citizens Brigade Founders To Give Up Leadership
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Comedy Club Tries To Bring Back Standup
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VISUAL

Learning From A Vanished Mural Of Racial Violence
- Email/share this:     - Hyperallergic

The Future Of Art: Human Scale
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A Nigerian Scholar Calls For A Halt To The Sale Of Sacred Igbo Art
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Some California Museums Are, Cautiously, Reopening
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The Artist Making Seattle’s Boarded-Up Sites His Canvas
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Why The National Trust Changed Its Stance On Confederate Statues
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Photo Taken By Thieves Of Stolen Van Gogh Made Public
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Art Dealer/Fugitive Angela Gulbenkian Arrested For Theft Of Andy Warhol Print And Yayoi Kusama Pumpkin
- Email/share this:     - Artnet

Which Statues Stay, Which Go?
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Here’s The Group That Created The Google Spreadsheet Showing How Much Museum Employees Actually Make
- Email/share this:     - ARTnews

U.S. Museums Are (Finally) Developing Art Therapy Programs
- Email/share this:     - New York Times

Cash-Strapped British Air To Sell Off Its Art Collection
- Email/share this:     - Artnet

What Should Be Done With Toppled Statues?
- Email/share this:     - The New York Times

Boarded Up Museums Send The Wrong Message
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A Fisherman May Have Just Found A 700-Year-Old Statue Lying In A Riverbed
- Email/share this:     - The Guardian

Humboldt Forum In Berlin Will Open Before Year’s End (They Swear!)
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Now That Confederate Statues Are Coming Down, Why Do We Need Statues To Famous People Anyway?
- Email/share this:     - Washington Post

National Gallery In DC Will Begin Partial Reopening This Weekend
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French Government Seeks Designs For Memorial To Victims Of Slavery
- Email/share this:     - Artnet

Art Buyers Are Asking For Big Discounts Right Now
- Email/share this:     - Bloomberg

Director Of Art Basel: Online Galleries Won’t Replace Art Fairs
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Protesters Try To Take African Art From Paris Museum
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WORDS

The First Black British Author To Reach Number One On The Bestseller Lists Says It’s All Too Bittersweet
- Email/share this:     - The Observer (UK)

Federal Judge Rules The Trump Administration May Not Block John Bolton’s Book
- Email/share this:     - Slate

The Race To Publish Trump Tell-Alls
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Why Per-Article Micropayments For Journalism Just Will Not Catch On
- Email/share this:     - Columbia Journalism Review

With Nine Out Of 24 Board Members Remaining, National Book Critics Circle Tries To Pick Up The Pieces
- Email/share this:     - Publishers Weekly

The Earliest Editors: “The Correctors”
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Library Use Is Dramatically Up Since The Lockdown
- Email/share this:     - NPR

Has Somebody Really Figured Out How To Decipher The Voynich Manuscript This Time?
- Email/share this:     - The Art Newspaper

Relieved Yet Wary, Customers Start Returning To London’s Bookshops
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A Conservative Reckoning In Book Publishing?
- Email/share this:     - The New Republic

‘Dracula’ Wasn’t Inspired By Transylvania — It Was Inspired By Ireland
- Email/share this:     - Atlas Obscura

Sometimes ‘Dad-Gummit’ Just Won’t Do: Researchers Say That Profanity Can Increase Pain Tolerance
- Email/share this:     - Public Radio International

A New Indie Online Bookstore Has Soared During Lockdown. Can It Continue?
- Email/share this:     - The New York Times

It’s Bloomsday… er, Zoomsday. It Reminds What We’ll Return To
- Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times

Inside The Meltdown Of The National Book Critics Circle Board
- Email/share this:     - Publishers Weekly

As Much As They’d Like The Business, Booksellers Are Not Rushing To Reopen Their Stores
- Email/share this:     - Publishers Weekly

Book Critics Circle Board Members Resign Over Statement
- Email/share this:     - Baltimore Sun

How To Write A Novel: A Practical Guide
- Email/share this:     - Psyche

Internet Archive Ends Its Free Library Initiative Early After Publishers Sue
- Email/share this:     - Publishers Weekly

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