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My “Five Things to Fix in the Arts” Series: #1. Business Models and a $9 Billion Idea 

We need a significant, stable ongoing source of new funding for the arts that is politically insulated, inflation-proof, and expands the definitions of non-and for-profit arts. – Douglas McLennan

 


Finally: Arts Organizations Have Some Fun 

One of the primary benefits of this pandemic is that artists and arts organizations were all forced to experiment – even though they didn’t feel ready. This wide-spread spirit of experimentation is itself an achievement. I don’t care that it took a collective “spaghetti at the wall” approach; we really needed a shakeup. – Hannah Grannemann

 


New Series: Audiences During the Pandemic 

My goal as guest editor of Lynne Conner’s blog for the next six months is to share and respond to what I’m seeing happening during this crisis through the lens of the audience. Every day there are new ideas, plans, calls to action, reasons to despair and reasons to celebrate. In this space I will be sharing and responding to what I’m seeing – and I ask you to share and respond as well. – Hannah Grannemann

 


Yoko’s Joke: Signs of the Times for the Metropolitan Museum’s Impending Reopening 

Either Max Hollein and Daniel Weiss, the director and president of the Metropolitan Museum, were knowing participants in Yoko Ono’s mischievous potshot at their august institution, or they fell for her prank. – Lee Rosenbaum

 



 
TODAY'S ARTS & CULTURE NEWS ~ 08/30/2020

DANCE
Rewriting Irish Dancing’s Weirdly Strict Gender Rulebook
     - Email/share this:     - Dance Magazine 

David Hallberg Looks Back On His Final Days At The Bolshoi
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

This Ballet Company Is Canceling ‘Nutcracker’ But Not Its Fall Season
     - Email/share this:     - Richmond Times-Dispatch 

Miami City Ballet Cancels Previously Announced 2020-21 Season
     - Email/share this:     - Miami Today 

Contemporary Dance In Indigenous Stories
     - Email/share this:     - High Country News 

Italy Bans Public Dancing
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

In Wake Of Sexual Misconduct Accusations, Ballet School In UK Shuts Down Completely
     - Email/share this:     - The Herald (Scotland) 


IDEAS
How To Keep The Memory Of WWII Alive Now?
     - Email/share this:     - Time Magazine 

The Filmmakers Of ‘Honeyland’ May Never Leave The Balkans
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Writing About A Movement, Not A Moment
     - Email/share this:     - NPR 

Is New York Over?
     - Email/share this:     - The Atlantic 

Germany Begins Big Experiment Studying Universal Income
     - Email/share this:     - Der Spiegel 

A Cultural History Of Chairs
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

Why It’s Hard To Determine Happiness
     - Email/share this:     - Unherd 

Online Learning Is Changing Our Brains. We Need To Understand How
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

How Good Teachers Cultivate Wonder
     - Email/share this:     - Psyche 

Why Wearing A Mask Is A Matter Of Identity For Some
     - Email/share this:     - The Conversation 

Man Sues Patent Office Over Its Decision That AI Can’t Invent Things
     - Email/share this:     - Vice 

Why Cities Look More And More Alike
     - Email/share this:     - The Atlantic 

Complexity Science: Not As Simple As You Think
     - Email/share this:     - Aeon 

Google’s Plan To Disrupt Education
     - Email/share this:     - Inc. 

State Universities Backed Themselves, With Legislative Help, Into Some Terrible Corners This Fall
     - Email/share this:     - The Atlantic 


ISSUES
In London, South Bank Arts Workers Rally For Their Jobs
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian (UK) (PA Media) 

The Coronavirus Has Made It Clear How Desperately The U.S. Needs To Provide Internet For Everyone
     - Email/share this:     - Fast Company 

“I Didn’t Realize How Much I Missed Applause”
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 

Applause Is The Crucial Thing We Lack In Performances Without An Audience
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 

‘I Do Not Envy Ms. Berg Her Position’ — New Director Of Jewish Museum Berlin Begins An All-Too-Sensitive Job
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

New Zealand’s Top Arts Groups Can’t Get Visas For Their Overseas Performers
     - Email/share this:     - Radio New Zealand 

NYC’s Ambitious Arts Diversity Plan? Who Can Tell What’s Working?
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Is New York City Mayor’s Push To Diversify Arts Institutions Working? There’s No Way To Know For Sure
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

Support For The Arts, And For Public Funding, In Australia Hits New High: Study
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

Are All Arts Critics Really Just Bitter Failed Artists? No. No, They Are Not.
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 


MEDIA
Studios, Unions Closer To Deal For Return To Work In The U.S.
     - Email/share this:     - Variety 

Nervous Eyes, Hand Sanitizer, And No Run On Popcorn
     - Email/share this:     - BuzzFeed 

What Happens If Studios Decide They Truly Don’t Need Movie Theatres?
     - Email/share this:     - Vulture 

What’s Lost When Film Festivals Go Virtual
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Should Critics Be Reviewing Movies Showing In Theaters While COVID Is Still Rampant?
     - Email/share this:     - Vanity Fair 

As Movie Theatres Reopen, Audiences Weigh The Safety Calculation
     - Email/share this:     - Variety 

Bolsonaro Gov’t Is Dismantling South America’s Largest Film And TV Archive
     - Email/share this:     - Artforum 

Hundreds Of Canadian Radio And TV Stations Warn They’ll Have To Close
     - Email/share this:     - CBC 

Three Arrested In Elite International Movie Piracy Ring
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

TV Misses Movie Ads. But Do The Movies Need TV Any More?
     - Email/share this:     - Variety 

Drop Local Content Quotas For Australian TV Networks And Industry Will Be Wrecked, Say Producers
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

Actors With Disabilities Are Finally Starting To Break Through
     - Email/share this:     - T — The New York Times Style Magazine 

Three Suspects Charged As Part Of Worldwide Movie Piracy Scheme
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

Nearly 12 Million Videos Removed From YouTube In Two Months
     - Email/share this:     - CNET 

DC Fan Dome Sets The Gold Standard (So Far) For Virtual Events
     - Email/share this:     - The Verge 

Could Open Source Help Hollywood With Diversity?
     - Email/share this:     - Protocol 

The Underappreciated Brilliance Of Radio Sketch Comedy
     - Email/share this:     - Vulture 

Alex Ross: The Entire History Of Film Music Is Saturated With Wagner
     - Email/share this:     - The New Yorker 

‘Unhinged’ Made $4 Million Its Opening Weekend, And That’s Seen As A Major Success
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

When The Movie Theatres Return – Much Will Be Different
     - Email/share this:     - HuffPost 


MUSIC
The Hollywood Bowl In The Time Of The Pandemic
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

The Joys Of Music Reaction Videos
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian (UK) 

The Leonard Cohen Estate Is Considering Legal Action After RNC Uses Hallelujah – Twice
     - Email/share this:     - Slate 

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Musicians Sign A Contract Through 2025
     - Email/share this:     - Baltimore Sun 

Meet The Musicians Who Are Going To The Scenes Of Tragedies to Play
     - Email/share this:     - Chicago Tribune 

What Came Out Of The First-Ever ‘Opera Hack’? This
     - Email/share this:     - San Diego Union-Tribune 

Much-Lauded Black-Run Jazz Label Faces Up To A Complicated History
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 

Ani DiFranco’s Plan To Give Prisoners A Voice
     - Email/share this:     - Shondaland 

New Chief Of Paris Opera Will Begin Work Next Month, A Year Early (But What Of His Current Job In Toronto?)
     - Email/share this:     - Ludwig Van 

Why Don’t Orchestras Improvise?
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

How To Bring L.A. Back From Disease, Dissension, And Unrest? Build Concert Halls, Says Mark Swed
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

What Pandemic? Vinyl Record Sales Up 17 Percent
     - Email/share this:     - Quartz 

Alex Ross: The Entire History Of Film Music Is Saturated With Wagner
     - Email/share this:     - The New Yorker 

Boston Symphony Lays Off More Than One-Quarter Of Administrative Staff
     - Email/share this:     - Boston Globe 

Study: Singing Is No Riskier Than Talking
     - Email/share this:     - BBC 

Remembering 50 Years Of The Oldest Established Permanent Floating Jazz Club In Chicago
     - Email/share this:     - Chicago Tribune 

Isaac Stern Was Really Famous. So Why Has His Star Faded?
     - Email/share this:     - Commentary 

How I Learned To Be A Kinder Critic
     - Email/share this:     - San Francisco Chronicle 

The Grim Silence Of The Present Makes For An Eerie Vacation
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 


PEOPLE
Alice Koller, Author Of ‘The Feminist Walden,’ 94
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Chadwick Boseman, King In ‘Black Panther’ And Jackie Robinson In ’42,’ Has Died At 43
     - Email/share this:     - The Hollywood Reporter 

The Former Judge Who Writes Angry Letters To Journalists
     - Email/share this:     - San Francisco Chronicle 

Bill Arnett, Dead At 81, Brought Unknown Southern Black Artists To The World’s Attention
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

Itzhak Perlman At 75
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Sean Connery At 90 (Yes, 90)
     - Email/share this:     - Irish Times 

Afghanistan’s Most Famous Actress, And First Female Filmmaker, Shot In Kabul
     - Email/share this:     - CBS News 

Istvan Rabovsky, First Big Ballet Star To Defect From Soviet Bloc, Dead At 90
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

Writer Gail Sheehy, 83
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Kindness With A Capital K: Why Ellen Is So Vulnerable To Her Current Scandal, And Why She Had To Be That Way
     - Email/share this:     - The Atlantic 

Virgin Islands Subpoena’s Billionaire Board Chair Of MoMA In Jeffrey Epstein Investigation
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 


THEATRE
Disabled Theatre Workers Want More Than Just A Discussion Panel
     - Email/share this:     - American Theatre 

For The First Woman To Lead A Prestigious Paris Theatre, Accusations Of Bullying Lead To Her Firing
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Getting Anti-Black Language Out, While Retaining The Core Ideas And Beauty, In Shakespeare
     - Email/share this:     - Howlround 

Was Last Summer’s ‘South Pacific’ At The Aspen Festival Racist?
     - Email/share this:     - Van 

Major Broadway Theater Operator Sues Insurers For Coronavirus Payments
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

A Need For Boldness In Rethinking The Arts
     - Email/share this:     - ArtsFuse 

Actors With Disabilities Are Finally Starting To Break Through
     - Email/share this:     - T — The New York Times Style Magazine 

Reopening Theatres Will Fail If They Can’t Get Insurance
     - Email/share this:     - The Stage 

Actors’ Equity OKs Three Indoor Productions, The First Since COVID Lockdown
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

New York’s Public Theater Gives Money To Its Out-Of-Work Freelancers
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

How Theatres In Belarus Got Politically Active
     - Email/share this:     - American Theatre 

Minneapolis Theatre Looks Into The Future, Decides To Shut Down After One Last Season
     - Email/share this:     - MPR 

Stand-Up Comedians Aren’t Finding The Whole Situation Very Funny Right Now
     - Email/share this:     - BBC 


VISUAL
What Ancient Statues Tell Us About Universal Facial Expressions
     - Email/share this:     - Smithsonian 

Old Dutch Master Painting Stolen For Third Time In 32 Years
     - Email/share this:     - BBC 

Illegal Gold Hunters Obliterate 2,000-Year-Old Archaeological Site
     - Email/share this:     - Yahoo! (AFP) 

What If Museums Aren’t Up For Reform?
     - Email/share this:     - Hyperallergic 

Guy Who Punched Picasso Painting At Tate Modern Sentenced To 18 Months In Prison
     - Email/share this:     - Artnet 

‘Manipulative, Offensive, And Cheap’: Whitney Museum Cancels Show Of Black Artists’ Work After Artists Cry Foul
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

Lost 13th-Century Portions Of Westminster Abbey Rediscovered
     - Email/share this:     - Smithsonian Magazine 

Religious Justice Warriors Smash Up Statue Of Mary Magdalene Because It Is A Nude
     - Email/share this:     - The Art Newspaper 

What Should A Museum Be In 2020?
     - Email/share this:     - Vanity Fair 

Are The Detroit Institute Of Arts And Its Director Simply Out Of Touch With Their City?
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

The Race To Collect The History We’re Living
     - Email/share this:     - Wired 


WORDS
 Falling In Love With A Poem Across The Centuries
     - Email/share this:     - Irish Times 

 The Complexities Of Black Speculative Fiction Can’t All Fit Under Afrofuturism
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Review of Books 

 Eight Trends In Recent Book Cover Art
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 

 Why Do Writers Get So Little For Movie Rights?
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

 Why Won’t Publishers Fact-Check Their Nonfiction Books?
     - Email/share this:     - Esquire 

 Powell’s Books Says It Will Stop Selling Through Amazon
     - Email/share this:     - Geekwire 

 The Nonprofit That Sends Books To Young Prisoners — And Pushes To Abolish Prisons
     - Email/share this:     - Vogue 

 Sales Of America’s All-Time Bestselling Book Are Down, But Reading Of That Book Is Up
     - Email/share this:     - Publishers Weekly 

 ‘Visceral And Virtuosic’ Dutch Novel Wins International Booker Prize
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

 How 70,000 Chinese Characters Were Made To Fit On A Western Computer Keyboard
     - Email/share this:     - Radiolab 

 Major Indian Publisher Withdraws Book About 2020 Riots In Delhi
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

 Kuwait Changes Its Book Censorship Law
     - Email/share this:     - The National (UAE) 

 During The Pandemic, Small Local Bookstores Have Gotten More Love Than They Can Handle (And Customers Don’t Love That)
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 

 The Ongoing Reckoning In The Publishing World
     - Email/share this:     - GEN 



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