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TODAY'S ARTS & CULTURE NEWS ~ 08/02/2020

DANCE

What Does It Truly Mean To ‘Decolonize’ Dance?
- Email/share this:     - San Francisco Classical Voice

Washington Ballet Loses Another Executive Director
- Email/share this:     - Washington Post

Rethinking Dance Performance
- Email/share this:     - Dance Magazine

At Least There’s One Live Dance Festival Happening In The U.S. This Summer
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How Spain’s National Dance Company Made It From COVID Lockdown Back To The Stage
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This Ballet School Is Actively Helping Dancers Deal With Body Image Struggles
- Email/share this:     - BBC

Do Ballerinas Really Need To Be So Extremely Thin?
- Email/share this:     - Dance Magazine

IDEAS

Why Racism Is Deeply Built Into Arts Institutional Structures
- Email/share this:     - Hyperallergic

New York Is Getting Loud Again
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Report: Going Green Now Would Create 25 Million Jobs
- Email/share this:     - Fast Company

Have We Made Progress On Global Poverty Or Not?
- Email/share this:     - The Atlantic

Charismatic Leaders, For Good And Evil
- Email/share this:     - The Point

The Man Who Invented The 8-Hour Workday Had An Even More Radical Idea For Money
- Email/share this:     - Aeon

How The Motivations Of Philanthropy Have Changed
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ISSUES

The Rank Hypocrisy Of Threatening TikTok
- Email/share this:     - Wired

Booker Nominee Arrested For Supporting Another Arrested Writer In Zimbabwe
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As COVID Cases Continue To Rise, South Carolina Reopens Performance Spaces And Cinemas
- Email/share this:     - The Post and Courier (Charleston)

Australia Is Raising University Tuition For Arts And Humanities Degrees And Lowering It For STEM Degrees
- Email/share this:     - BBC

MacDowell Artists’ Retreat Tries Virtual Fellowships
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Giving To Arts Is Down In 2020: Study
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Reimagining Los Angeles’ Approach To Culture
- Email/share this:     - KCET

Watching Online: The Differences Between Audience and Viewer
- Email/share this:     - ArtsandCultureTexas

Here’s How The UK’s £1.5 Billion Arts Rescue Package Will Work
- Email/share this:     - Variety

What It’s Like Going To Disney World Right Now
- Email/share this:     - The Atlantic

For Most Of The 20th Century, To Be Chinese In Hollywood Meant Your Name Didn’t Matter
- Email/share this:     - Hyperallergic

MEDIA

Canada’s Prominent Black Filmmakers Call Out Racism And Inequity In The Film Industry
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We Might Look Back On This Time As The Year Of Neverending Remakes
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Coronavirus Prevention Measure: Intermission
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The Radio Audience Has Changed In The Pandemic. But Radio doesn’t Seem To Have Changed
- Email/share this:     - Current

TikTok Will Give Billions To Creators
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America Needs A Truth And Reconciliation Commission — And It Should Be Televised
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‘Independent Cinema, As We Know It And As We Love It, Is Over’
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Five Lessons From This Year’s Emmy Nominations
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AMC Theatres Makes Deal For Quicker Video Releases
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Black Voice Actors: Yes, There’s Been Progress, But Not Nearly Enough
- Email/share this:     - Vulture

Think TikTok Is Ultimately Too Silly To Matter? Think Again
- Email/share this:     - OZY

This Year’s Emmy Nominations
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UK’s Sky Arts Channel Goes Free, All Arts
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Regal Cinemas Says It Will Reopen In August
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Hollywood Finally Gives In – Will Release Big Movie Outside US First
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Another Step In New York Times’ Turn Toward Hollywood
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An Almost Finished Series Plus The Virus Shutdown Equals A Deleted Episode
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Blockbuster Movies Are Delayed Again, Indefinitely
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That Time Civil Rights Hero John Lewis Ended Up Guest-Starring On The Animated Series ‘Arthur’
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MUSIC

Musicians Fear Disruptions Will Be Permanent
- Email/share this:     - Van

Recreating The Sound Of Hagia Sophia
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Salzburg Festival Will Happen This Year, And Here’s How They’ll Do It
- Email/share this:     - New York Times

Black Classical Musicians Share Stories Of The Crap They’ve Had To Put Up With
- Email/share this:     - WQXR (New York City)

How Earlier Black Classical Musicians Faced (And Faced Down) American Racism
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Classical Music’s Social Media Racism Wars
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Music Of America’s First Known Women Composers Is Headed To Disc
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Where Are The Thousands Of Musical Instruments Looted By The Nazis?
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How America’s First Drive-In Classical Concert Since Lockdown Turned Out
- Email/share this:     - Newsweek

The Full Berry: Mozart’s Letters
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Opera Philadelphia Cancels O20 Festival, Postpones Main Season, Announces Newly Made Online Offerings
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Learning Music Does Not Make Kids Smarter, New Study Finds
- Email/share this:     - The National (Abu Dhabi)

Rhiannon Giddens Named Artistic Director Of Silkroad, Yo-Yo Ma’s Cross-Cultural Project
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Stop Blind Auditions For Orchestras? No — Auditions Should Become Even More Blind
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Indianapolis Symphony Cancels 2020-21 Season
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Warning: 90 Percent Of Canada’s Live Music Venues Could Shut Forever
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How Long Can New Orleans Survive Without Its Music?
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Richmond Symphony To Return To The Concert Hall
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For A Musician At The Intersection Of Art, Community, And Activism, Awards Seem Superfluous
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PEOPLE

The Literary Movement Of Gayl Jones
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Bidding Farewell To Havana’s City Historian And Conservationist
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Actor Wilford Brimley Of ‘Cocoon’ And So Very Much More Has Died At 85
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Director Alan Parker, 76
- Email/share this:     - The New York Times

John Homans, Longtime Editor At New York Magazine And Vanity Fair, Dead At 62
- Email/share this:     - New York Magazine

Reese Schonfeld, Co-Founder Of CNN And The Food Network, Dead At 88
- Email/share this:     - Washington Post

Keith Sonnier, Playful Post-Minimalist Sculptor, Dead At 78
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Rick Brettell, Texas Art Critic, Museum Director, Fundraiser For The Arts, 71
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Why Bob Ross Is Still Hugely Popular
- Email/share this:     - The Atlantic

Composer And Writer Dmitri Smirnov Dead Of COVID At 71
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Atlanta’s Woodruff Center CEO Steps Down
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The Revisionist Andy Warhol
- Email/share this:     - The New Republic

The Unprecedented Bravery Of Oliva De Havilland
- Email/share this:     - The Atlantic

Lotty Rosenfeld, Artist Who Protested The Chilean Dictatorship With Her Art, Has Died At 77
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THEATRE

What Is A Broadway Producer’s Moral Responsibility?
- Email/share this:     - Token Theatre Friends

The Shutdown Kills A Young Cabaret Theatre Near Indianapolis
- Email/share this:     - Indianapolis Star

This May Seem Like Basic Information, But Plays Written By Black Playwrights Don’t Have To Be About Trauma
- Email/share this:     - American Theatre

The Many Side – Now Main – Hustles Of Broadway Workers
- Email/share this:     - Time

Greek Theatre On The Rocks
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In Which A New York Times And Guardian Theater Critic Takes Online Theater Classes
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First Indoor Play Approved By Actors’ Equity Won’t Be Indoors After All
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Chief Of Leading Off-Broadway Theatre Will Resign To Make Way For BIPOC Leadership
- Email/share this:     - Playbill

Want A COVID-Safe Space For Your Play That’s Easy, Quick, And Cheap? Try A Circus Tent
- Email/share this:     - The Stage

A Theatre Made Out Of Recycled Pianos
- Email/share this:     - The Guardian

What’s The Last Hurdle For Getting Theatres Open Again? Insurance
- Email/share this:     - The Stage

How The Influential New-Play Conference PlayPenn Blew Up
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Audra McDonald: Theatre Can’t Miss This Moment
- Email/share this:     - The New Yorker

VISUAL

The Strange New Life Of Objects In The Coronavirus Era
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The Gauguin Detective
- Email/share this:     - Washington Post

Not 20 Years After World War II, Modern Design Reintroduced Tokyo To The World
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Defending Kitsch
- Email/share this:     - JSTOR

Finally: Scientists Figure Out Where The Stonehenge Stones Came From
- Email/share this:     - New Scientist

Picasso Murals Safely Removed From Doomed Building In Oslo
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US Senate Report: Art Market Enabled Oligarchs To Get Around Sanctions
- Email/share this:     - The New York Times

Museum Of Contemporary Art Detroit Fires Director
- Email/share this:     - ARTnews

Changing The Powerful Symbols Along Richmond’s Monument Avenue
- Email/share this:     - Washington Post

What The Philadelphia Museum Of Art’s Workplace Assessment Found (It Wasn’t Pretty)
- Email/share this:     - Philadelphia Inquirer

A New Idea For Artist Resale Royalties Contracts
- Email/share this:     - Artnet

Illegal Trade In Antiquities Is Not As Big As We Think It Is: Study
- Email/share this:     - The Art Newspaper

Public Art In An Activist Time
- Email/share this:     - SpacingToronto

What Do You Do To Thank Brooklyn Hospital Workers During The Pandemic?
- Email/share this:     - Washington Post

WORDS

Becoming The Accidental Chronicler Of Four Ridiculously Intense Years
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Don’t Treat Women Writers Like Mistresses, Publishers
- Email/share this:     - Irish Times

To Cull One’s Books During Quarantine, Or To Hold All Of Those Friends Even More Tightly?
- Email/share this:     - Washington Post

The History Nobody Tells You
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Writing Against Publishing’s (Racist) ‘Common Sense’
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How Books Became Cheap: An Illustrated Timeline Of Publishing Technology
- Email/share this:     - Lapham's Quarterly

What’s The Most Popular Book In Russian Prisons? Not ‘Crime And ‘Punishment’
- Email/share this:     - Moscow Times

Internet Archive Responds To Publishers’ Copyright Lawsuit Over Lending
- Email/share this:     - Publishing Perspectives

Booker Prize Longlist Announced
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Why It’s Important To Learn A Poem Right Now
- Email/share this:     - The Atlantic

Saudi Arabia: We’ll Host The World Science Fiction Convention! Science Fiction Writers: Oh No, You Won’t
- Email/share this:     - The Guardian

Crop Of Books Takes New View Of Old Epic Poetry
- Email/share this:     - New York Times

How The First Bestseller List Was Invented
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The Big Sort: All Fiction Can Be Organized In Four Categories
- Email/share this:     - New York Review of Books

The 2,300-Year-Old Character Sketches That Have Influenced Western Literature Ever Since
- Email/share this:     - Paris Review

The World’s Youngest Poet?
- Email/share this:     - NPR

Brandon Sanderson Had 13 Books Rejected Before Hitting It Big And Earning Millions
- Email/share this:     - The Guardian

As Long As Zoom Lives, We’ll Want To Know What’s On Other People’s Bookshelves
- Email/share this:     - The New York Times

Writer Walter Mosley Has Some Thoughts On How The Pandemic Will Change Humanity
- Email/share this:     - LitHub

Why Did Much Of Human Communication Move From Gestures To Oral Language?
- Email/share this:     - Aeon

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