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Closet Cleaning 

For a lot of us, these last few months have provided an opportunity to clean out and organize our closets, cupboards, garages, and workshops. (Stick with me, there will be a point to this.) – Doug Borwick

 


Parallel musical universes? More lost continents? The early-music movement in New York explores an endless past 

One stands back and marvels how horizons have kept expanding in the music before J.S. Bach, with modern premieres of 400-year-old works by names you’ve barely heard of — and leave you wanting more. – David Patrick Stearns

 



 
TODAY'S ARTS & CULTURE NEWS ~ 08/16/2020

DANCE
An Outdoor Dance Festival… And Some Hope
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 

The Future Of Dance – An Online Strategy
     - Email/share this:     - Pointe 

Here’s One Set Of Turf Dancers On The Subway Who Are Actual Professionals
     - Email/share this:     - Dance Magazine 

COVID Strikes Bolshoi And Mariinsky Ballets
     - Email/share this:     - Gramilano (Milan) 

LA Dance Project’s App Has Turned Into A Source Of Revenue
     - Email/share this:     - Fast Company 

Martha Graham’s ‘Lamentation’ Is Just The Piece We Need In The Time Of COVID
     - Email/share this:     - Psyche 


IDEAS
As We All Know Now, Time Both Is And Isn’t Real
     - Email/share this:     - The Paris Review 

Life In The Fast Lane? It Comes With A Cost
     - Email/share this:     - Anonymous 

How Swedish Culture Explains Its Response To COVID
     - Email/share this:     - Unherd 

Why Exams Continue To Be The Gold Standard For Education
     - Email/share this:     - Unherd 

How The Internet Turned People Into Users
     - Email/share this:     - The Nation 

What’s Needed To Defeat COVID: Morality Pills?
     - Email/share this:     - The Conversation 

How Data Fueled The Progressive Era
     - Email/share this:     - Hedgehog Review 

The Wellness Trap
     - Email/share this:     - Lithub 

Those Ubiquitous Ads For MasterClass? Here’s What You Actually Get
     - Email/share this:     - The Atlantic 

How The Aztecs Recorded History
     - Email/share this:     - Psyche 


ISSUES
Members Are Furious At SAG-AFTRA’s Plan To Change, And Limit, Health Coverage
     - Email/share this:     - Variety 

Think School Testing Is A Mess In The US? Take A Look At How The UK Shafted Students In The Pandemic
     - Email/share this:     - Wired 

Even Before The Blast, Beirut’s Arts Communities Were In Crisis. Some Wonder If It’s Worth Trying To Rebuild
     - Email/share this:     - CNN 

Indoor Performances In England Get Green Light To Resume This Weekend
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

Report: Cultural Institutions Spent Almost $8 Billion On Buildings Last Year
     - Email/share this:     - Artnet 

Report: Racism At Canadian Museum Of Human Rights
     - Email/share this:     - The Conversation 

The Anonymous Armies Of Culture Cops Who Actually Police The Internet
     - Email/share this:     - Nautilus 

How Non-Profit Arts Organizations Measure Their Impact
     - Email/share this:     - LinkedIn 

Canadian Artists Lead Drive For Basic Income
     - Email/share this:     - The Tyee 

Arts Indstries In U.S. Lost 2.7 Million Jobs To COVID: Brookings Study
     - Email/share this:     - Forbes 

How Can Online Journalism Get Ad Revenue Back? Maybe By Tossing Its Cookies
     - Email/share this:     - Wired 

Color-Blind Casting Is Not The Solution — We Need Color-Conscious Casting
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

UK Report: Theatres With Proper Ventilation Could Be Safe To Reopen At Full Capacity
     - Email/share this:     - Arts Professional 

What The Canada Council’s New Chairman Wants To Do
     - Email/share this:     - Toronto Star 

Reimagining How Theme Parks Work
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 


MEDIA
The Superheroes We Have, The Superheroes We Need
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

The Pain And Dedication Of Being A Reality Show Camera Operator
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

A Storied Hollywood Research Library – And It Needs A Home
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

The Memorabilia King Vs. The Studio Detective: The Never-Before-Told Account Of An Epic Battle Over Stolen Movie Props
     - Email/share this:     - Hollywood Reporter 

AMC Is Opening Movie Theatres Next Week – Admission 15 Cents
     - Email/share this:     - Variety 

Hollywood Movie Production Restarts (But Not In Hollywood)
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

AMC Says It Will Open Its Movie Theatres Next Week
     - Email/share this:     - The Verge 

How A Turkish Historical Drama Became ‘The Muslim ‘Game Of Thrones”
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

Antitrust Rules Against Studios Owning Movie Theaters Struck Down (Will That Save The Theaters?)
     - Email/share this:     - Wired 

Trump’s TikTok Ban: National Security Or Freedom Of Speech?
     - Email/share this:     - The Hollywood Reporter 

Disney Drops 20th Century Fox Brand Entirely
     - Email/share this:     - Variety 

WarnerMedia Lays Off Hundreds
     - Email/share this:     - Variety 

Major Layoffs At DC Comics
     - Email/share this:     - Hollywood Reporter 

General Manager Out At DC’s WAMU After No-Good, Very Bad Summer
     - Email/share this:     - Washingtonian 

Why Is Everyone Beating Up On TikTok?
     - Email/share this:     - Hyperallergic 

Extras Being Replaced By Mannequins?
     - Email/share this:     - CBC 

Judge Rules Movie Studios Can Own Theatres For First Time In 71 Years
     - Email/share this:     - Forbes 


MUSIC
The Terrible Plight Of Music And Theatre Event Staff
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian (UK) 

The Traditional Ice Cream Truck Song Has Racist Roots, So Good Humor Asked A Musician To Create A New Song
     - Email/share this:     - Gothamist 

Congress Adjourns With No Help For Live Music Venues (Or Anyone At All)
     - Email/share this:     - Variety 

BBC Proms: There Will Be Live Concerts, But No Live Audiences
     - Email/share this:     - BBC Music Magazine 

Is Singing Together During COVID Safe?
     - Email/share this:     - NPR 

First Woman To Conduct Opera At Salzburg Festival Isn’t Much Interested In Gender
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

Berlin Says Choirs There May Start Singing Together Again
     - Email/share this:     - OperaWire 

Great – Time To Practice! But A Musician Gets Restless…
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 

Five Musicians Talk About Diversity In Chicago Orchestras
     - Email/share this:     - Chicago Sun-Times 

In Denver: Without Live Music, Who Are We?
     - Email/share this:     - Denver Post 

Kent Nagano At The Montreal Symphony: A Final Assessment
     - Email/share this:     - La Scena Musicale (Montreal) 

A Brief History Of Music Shaped By Technology
     - Email/share this:     - 3 Quarks Daily 

How Music Is Gaining A Bigger Role In Sleep
     - Email/share this:     - Time 

Reconsidering Poulenc
     - Email/share this:     - The New Yorker 

Considering Poulenc – A New Biography
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 


PEOPLE
Linda Manz, Who Starred In Terence Malick’s ‘Days Of Heaven’ At Only 15, Has Died At 58
     - Email/share this:     - Variety 

Billy Goldenberg, Composer For Stage, Screen, And TV, 84
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Julia Garner’s Newfound Netflix Fame And Lockdown Angst
     - Email/share this:     - The Hollywood Reporter 

Guitarist Julian Bream, 87
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

Julian Bream, One Of 20th Century’s Great Classical Guitarists And Lutenists, Dead At 87
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

Geoffrey Nunberg, Sociopolitical Linguist Known From NPR, Dead At 75
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 

So Who Was ‘Jim Crow’, Anyway?
     - Email/share this:     - Mental Floss 

Matt Herron, Photojournalist Who Documented Civil Rights Struggle In Deep South, Dead At 89
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

Singer Trini Lopez, 83, Of COVID
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

Charlie Parker at 100
     - Email/share this:     - Chicago Tribune 

Media Mogul Sumner Redstone, 97
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 

Rudy Giuliani Being Sued By His Art Advisor
     - Email/share this:     - Artnet 

Chicago Jazz Impresario Joe Segal, 94
     - Email/share this:     - Chicago Tribune 

Judit Reigl, Painter Who Abandoned Breton And Surrealism For Abstraction And The Human Body, Dead At 97
     - Email/share this:     - ARTnews 

The Man Who Translated The Entire Talmud Is Dead At 83
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

Salome Bey, 86, Canada’s “First Lady Of The Blues”
     - Email/share this:     - CBC 

A Reappraisal Of Stanley Kubrick
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Broadway Star Danny Burstein On Struggling With COVID
     - Email/share this:     - The Hollywood Reporter 


THEATRE
In The 2016 ‘Much Ado’ On PBS, Shakespeare Conveys How Much Black Lives Matter
     - Email/share this:     - LitHub 

Will Britain’s First Live Show To Return Actually Make It Back To The Stage?
     - Email/share this:     - BBC 

The Theatre Of Giving Convention Speeches When There’s No In-Person Audience
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

How The Young Vic Was Born, 50 Years Ago
     - Email/share this:     - The Stage 

Massachusetts Orders Two Live Plays In Berkshires To Reduce Audience Sizes
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

If COVID Means Audiences Can’t Sit Through These Shows, Then They Can Walk Through Them
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

Five Months Into The Pandemic, How Are The National Theatres In England, Scotland, And Wales Holding Up?
     - Email/share this:     - The Stage 

In Malawi Theatre Artists Debate: Low Ticket Prices Or Making A Living…
     - Email/share this:     - Howlround 

Second City Tries To Give Itself An Anti-Racist Makeover — Will It Work This Time?
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

Christmas Pantos All Over England Are Cancelled; Theatres Face Crippling Losses
     - Email/share this:     - The Stage 

UK’s Summer Theatres Work Through, Around, And With COVID Restrictions
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

Play About Afghan Dancing Boys Withdrawn By Authors After Anger From Many Sides
     - Email/share this:     - BBC 


VISUAL
Buckingham Palace’s Private Art Collection Is Going On Display For The First (And Perhaps Only) Time Ever
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian (UK) 

As Boston’s Art Museums Reopen, There’s A Sense Of Hope
     - Email/share this:     - The Boston Globe 

New VR Experience Takes You Inside Notre Dame Before And After The Fire
     - Email/share this:     - The Art Newspaper 

New Book Traces Europe’s Great Buildings Back To Far East
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

‘Literally Melting’: Medieval Buildings Of Yemen’s Capital Are Collapsing In Rain And Floods
     - Email/share this:     - France24 (AFP) 

Museum Of The Bible In Talks With Iraq Over Collection Items That May Have Been Looted
     - Email/share this:     - Artnet 

NY’s High Line Asks For Public Help In Choosing Next Sculpture
     - Email/share this:     - The Art Newspaper 

Berliners Worry About The Health Of The City’s Visual Arts
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Staff At Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Say Director’s Firing Was Justified
     - Email/share this:     - The Art Newspaper 

Tate Galleries To Eliminate Half Of All Retail Jobs
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

The Museum Problem – Is It More A Relevance Problem?
     - Email/share this:     - Hyperallergic 

WPA Murals Slated For Demolition Saved, Thanks To Black Nurse Born In 1818
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

Goethe Was Wrong About Art (At Least Abstract Art): Study
     - Email/share this:     - ARTnews 

World’s First Entirely Virtual, Entirely Interactive Art Museum Opens Aug. 14
     - Email/share this:     - Yahoo! (AFP) 

Philadelphia Museum Of Art To Reopen At Half Speed
     - Email/share this:     - Philadelpia Inquirer 

How Rodin Ensured His Museum Would Stay Solvent
     - Email/share this:     - NPR 


WORDS
 How A Writer Pays, And Then Loses, Attention
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian (UK) 

 To Find A Book That Charts Our Own Distressed Times, Try Doris Lessing
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

 The Many Hatreds Of Horror Master H.P. Lovecraft
     - Email/share this:     - Irish Times 

 Writing With Radical Ordinariness
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

 A Wikipedia Battle Over Kamala Harris’ Entry
     - Email/share this:     - The Atlantic 

 Leon Wieseltier, Chastened, Is Starting A New Magazine After All
     - Email/share this:     - Air Mail 

 New Project Wonders How Ancient Languages Sounded
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

 Tribune Company Closing Newsrooms At Five Papers, Including New York And Orlando
     - Email/share this:     - Yahoo! (AP) 

 The End Of Second-Hand Bookstores?
     - Email/share this:     - The Critic 

 This Old Middle Eastern Verse Form Is Alive And Vigorous To This Day, Even In English
     - Email/share this:     - 3 Quarks Daily 

 How Do You Work To Preserve Indigenous Languages When You And Your Native Speakers Are All In Lockdown?
     - Email/share this:     - Slate 

 British Authors Raised £1 Million To Help Fellow Writers Through The Pandemic. That Money’s Almost Gone.
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 



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