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FROM TODAY'S ARTSJOURNAL BLOGS
Quick About-Face: Metropolitan Museum Follows Drastic Staff Reductions with Strategic Additions 

I’ve suggested that the Met’s radical downsizing of staff (necessitated by the Virus Crisis) might give its leaders an opportunity to install their own hand-picked team “sooner and less controversially than would have otherwise been possible.” “Sooner” turns out to be immediately. – Lee Rosenbaum

 


Appreciations of reopening 

Celebrations and stories about experiencing reopening of arts organizations are being shared, and they are joyous and poignant. Here are four of my favorites. – Hannah Grannemann

 



 
TODAY'S ARTS & CULTURE NEWS ~ 09/13/2020

DANCE
How Dance Can Heal Trauma
     - Email/share this:     - Dance Magazine 

New York’s Ice Dancing Company Takes To The Concrete
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

Official Report On Abuse At Berlin State Ballet School Released
     - Email/share this:     - Deutsche Welle 

At 84, David Gordon Learns To Choreograph For, And Via, The Internet
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

Houston Ballet Waltzes Into The ‘Bayadère’ Wars
     - Email/share this:     - Houston Press 

Colorado Ballet Furloughs All Its Dancers
     - Email/share this:     - Denverite 


IDEAS
Is Nepotism In The Arts Good Or Bad?
     - Email/share this:     - The Critic 

The End Of How We Do Higher Education?
     - Email/share this:     - The New Republic 

Thoughts On Art, Justice And Interpretation
     - Email/share this:     - Conrad Osborne 

The Need For Facts, The Threat Of Feelings
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

Meet The New Artificial Intelligence That’s Got Everyone’s Attention
     - Email/share this:     - Nautilus 

Market-Based Creativity (As Found In Nature)
     - Email/share this:     - Resilience 

Janet Malcolm Writes About Second Chances
     - Email/share this:     - New York Review of Books 

When Our Big Problems Are So Obvious, Who Needs Critiques?
     - Email/share this:     - Public Books 

Time To Dismantle The Meritocracy?
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

France’s Culture Of Complaint (Just For The Fun Of It)
     - Email/share this:     - BBC 

So What Are Straw Man Arguments Really For?
     - Email/share this:     - 3 Quarks Daily 

Thank Goodness For Caremongering
     - Email/share this:     - The Walrus 

Why Does Time Seem To Speed Up As We Age?
     - Email/share this:     - The Critic 


ISSUES
Toronto’s Live Venues Have Begun Reopening.
     - Email/share this:     - Toronto Star 

An Initiative To Rebuild America’s Arts
     - Email/share this:     - The Art Newspaper 

Festival-Free Edinburgh Lost 2 Million Tourists In August
     - Email/share this:     - The Scotsman 

Beirut’s Cultural Community Is In Tatters
     - Email/share this:     - The Art Newspaper 

Fauci: When It Will Be Safe To Go Back Into Theatres
     - Email/share this:     - Business Insider 

Where Do Joe Biden and Kamala Harris Stand on the Arts?
     - Email/share this:     - Hyperallergic 

A ‘Hunger Games’-Style Arts Bailout In Australia’s Largest State, Say Smaller Groups
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

Are Parking Lots A Solution For Live Venues?
     - Email/share this:     - Dallas News 

Is Online Streaming Of Performances Here To Stay?
     - Email/share this:     - The Stage 

Boris’s ‘Festival Of Brexit’ Is Now Accepting Proposals
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

Boris Johnson Announces Plan To Restart Performances By Testing Audience Members On Site
     - Email/share this:     - Variety 

Report: State Of The Arts Audience During COVID
     - Email/share this:     - TRG 

France Allocates €2 Billion To Help Arts And Culture Recover From COVID
     - Email/share this:     - Deadline 

The Artist Trap: How Do You Get Paid In The Digital Age?
     - Email/share this:     - The New Yorker 

UK Culture Secretary Says He Wants To See Performance Venues Open As Normal For Christmas
     - Email/share this:     - WhatsOnStage (London) 

What Sources Will Historians Of The Future Use To Make Sense Of 2020?
     - Email/share this:     - The Conversation 

Cancel Culture? This Too Shall Pass
     - Email/share this:     - Bloomberg 

Could Changing Our Work Weeks Mitigate Layoffs?
     - Email/share this:     - Artnet 

How Creative Workers Are Adapting During Shutdown
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 


MEDIA
“Nomadland” Wins Top Prize At Venice Film Festival
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Just Because Film Festivals Move Online It Doesn’t Mean Unlimited Tickets
     - Email/share this:     - Toronto Star 

Social Media Has Become Toxic. So Why Do We Stay On?
     - Email/share this:     - BookForum 

Times Are Grim. So Why Hasn’t Comedy Rallied On TV?
     - Email/share this:     - The Daily Beast 

#CancelNetflix Becomes A Thing As Anger Mounts Over Film Sexualizing Young Girls
     - Email/share this:     - Variety 

TikTok Says It’s Paying Out Hundreds Of Millions To Video Creators. Some Of Those Creators Are Ticked Off
     - Email/share this:     - Wired 

Film Festivals Lose Something Essential When They Go Virtual
     - Email/share this:     - Variety 

Vigilantes In Burkas: New Pakistani Series Give Taboos A Good Clobbering
     - Email/share this:     - The Economist 

Kafka’s ‘Metamorphosis’ Has Become A Video Game
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 

Oscars’ New Diversity Rules Ignite A Debate
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

How Disney’s New “Mulan” Is A Travesty Of China’s History
     - Email/share this:     - Foreign Policy 

Comic-Con Went Virtual This Year. Critics Said It Flopped. Fans Weren’t So Condemning
     - Email/share this:     - The Conversation 

Holding Toronto Film Festival Online Is Good For Film Criticism And For Films Themselves
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 

Academy Sets Inclusion Requirements For Best Picture Oscar
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

TikTok Holocaust Meme Demonstrates Need For Ethical Remembrance
     - Email/share this:     - The Conversation 

New Startup To Deliver Movies To Theatres Through The Cloud
     - Email/share this:     - The Hollywood Reporter 

How Much Difference Does Rotten Tomatoes Really Make In A Movie’s Success?
     - Email/share this:     - The Ringer 

Women Directors Made Almost Half The Films At This Year’s Venice Festival
     - Email/share this:     - Toronto Star 

Report: Global Movie Box Office Down 66 Percent For 2020
     - Email/share this:     - The Hollywood Reporter 


MUSIC
Musicians Find Trump’s Choice Of Campaign Music Baffling
     - Email/share this:     - Bloomberg 

How A Washington State Choir Changed The Course Of COVID Research
     - Email/share this:     - Slate 

What The Uk’s Music Organizations Are Learning About Streaming
     - Email/share this:     - Bachtrack 

Minnesota Public Radio Fires Its Only Black Classical Music Host
     - Email/share this:     - MPR 

How Does This Classical Music TV Series Attract Millions Of Viewers? It’s Made Like A Cooking Show
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 

At This Point, Should Australia Even Have A National Opera Company?
     - Email/share this:     - The Conversation 

California Considers Fix To Its Gig-Economy Law That Put Musician Contracts In Peril
     - Email/share this:     - San Francisco Classical Voice 

Here’s What The Classical Industry Thinks Of Anthony Tommasini’s Proposal To Scrap Blind Auditions
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

The Music Of Biology And The Biology Of Music
     - Email/share this:     - Resilience 

Michigan Opera Theatre Picks Yuval Sharon As Its Next Artistic Director
     - Email/share this:     - Detroit Free Press 

K-Pop Supergroup Tops Global Billboard Charts, Suggests Different Direction For Pop Music
     - Email/share this:     - The Conversation 

Fort Worth Symphony Loses Its Venue Two Weeks Before Season-Opening Concert
     - Email/share this:     - Fort Worth Magazine 

London’s Barbican Centre Reopens For Performances
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

Jazz Musicians Perform “Bad Jazz” To Drown Out Hate Speech Monger
     - Email/share this:     - Vice 

Violinist Suing Former Shanghai Quartet Colleagues Over Dismissal
     - Email/share this:     - The Strad 

Revealed: Gehry Plans For Two New Concert Halls Across From Disney Hall
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

More Pay Cuts And Layoffs At Pittsburgh Symphony
     - Email/share this:     - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 

Longest Concert In History Just Had Its First Chord Change In Seven Years
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

‘Patriotism Ain’t No One Song’ — A Classical Critic Considers America’s Anthems (Plural)
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 

Jazz Was Born As Resistance Music. It Got Institutionalized. Can It Get Its Protest Mojo Back?
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 


PEOPLE
Toots Hibbert, A Father Of Reggae, 77
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Jazz Bassist Gary Peacock, 85
     - Email/share this:     - NPR 

Christiane Eda-Pierre, France’s First Black Opera Star, Dead At 88
     - Email/share this:     - Barron's (AFP) 

Diana Rigg, 82
     - Email/share this:     - BBC 

A New Yorker Writer Watches Herself And Her Mother Get Turned Into Chinese Propaganda Grotesques
     - Email/share this:     - The New Yorker 

Dorothy Parker’s Ashes: An Odyssey From A File Cabinet To Baltimore To The Bronx
     - Email/share this:     - The New Yorker 

Pioneering Tuba Virtuoso Constance Weldon Dead At 88
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

How A Speech Coach Saved Janet Malcolm’s Bacon In Her Libel Trial
     - Email/share this:     - New York Review of Books 

David Graeber, Author Of ‘Bullshit Jobs’ And Co-Organizer Of Occupy Wall Street, Dead At 59
     - Email/share this:     - AP 


THEATRE
Theatre Sells Cardboard Audience Cutouts For Empty Seats
     - Email/share this:     - Broadway World 

Rethink: Time To End Playwright Submission Fees
     - Email/share this:     - The Stage 

How To Remake American Theater In The Wake Of COVID? Five New York Times Critics Offer Their Ideas
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

20 Stage Professionals Weigh In On How To ‘Revolutionize’ American Theater
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

Canceled And Online Shows Will Be Eligible For 2020 Pulitzer For Drama
     - Email/share this:     - Deadline 

Ben Brantley Retires As New York Times Co-Chief Theater Critic
     - Email/share this:     - Deadline 

Andrew Lloyd Webber Warns Theatres Are At The Point Of No Return
     - Email/share this:     - HuffPost 

Restarting Broadway Is Going To Be A Challenge
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 

How Theatre Schools Are Teaching Set, Lighting, And Costume Design During The Pandemic
     - Email/share this:     - American Theatre 

There’s One Place In Times Square That’s Already Presenting Indoor Broadway Concerts
     - Email/share this:     - Gothamist 

Kennedy Center Spent More Than $50 Million To Present ‘Hamilton’
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 

The First Live Musical On The West End Since Lockdown Will Be —
     - Email/share this:     - WhatsOnStage (London) 


VISUAL
An Opportunity For Reconsidering Public Monuments
     - Email/share this:     - New York Review of Books 

How The Big Museum Audiences Have Changed Since Reopening
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 

Team Digitally Recreating Venice To Preserve It
     - Email/share this:     - The Art Newspaper 

Giant Sculpture That Sings — Flight 93 National Memorial Is A Massive Wind Chime
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

Notre-Dame Reopens Its Crypt For The First Time Since The Fire
     - Email/share this:     - Smithsonian Magazine 

‘She Has Developed A Completely New Video Language That Warms This Cool Medium Up’ — On Pipilotti Rist
     - Email/share this:     - The New Yorker 

Startup Selling Shares In Blue-Chip Art Is Doing Plenty Of Business
     - Email/share this:     - Bloomberg 

That Trump Trip To Paris To Commemorate WWII? (Or Not) He Also Went Art Shopping
     - Email/share this:     - Bloomberg 

Hunter College Laid Off Half Its College Art Assistants. The Other Half Is Threatening Not To Work
     - Email/share this:     - The Art Newspaper 

Philadelphia Museum Of Art COO To Step Down Next Year (Not At All Because Of This Year’s Scandals)
     - Email/share this:     - Philadelphia Inquirer 

Have A Look At L.A.’s New Streetlights
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 


WORDS
 Strand Bookstore’s Workers Are Very Unhappy
     - Email/share this:     - The Baffler 

 What It’s Like Being A Successful BookTuber
     - Email/share this:     - Wired 

 French Government Attempt To Ban Feminist Book Backfires
     - Email/share this:     - Irish Times 

 The ‘Gentrification Font’ (There’s Really A Typeface For Rich People Taking Over Poor Neighborhoods?)
     - Email/share this:     - Vice 

 Turns Out Most Of Scots Wikipedia Is Fake. What To Do About It?
     - Email/share this:     - Slate 

 Kafka’s ‘Metamorphosis’ Has Become A Video Game
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 

 PEN America’s New President On Cancel Culture, Literature And Politics
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

 Burning Knowledge – It’s Happened Before. In The Digital Age, Even More A Threat
     - Email/share this:     - Literary Review 

 Guardian Publishes Essay Written Entirely By AI Bot
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

 This Manuscript Book May Be The Only Surviving Relic Of Thomas Becket
     - Email/share this:     - Apollo 

 How To Explain How New Yorkers Talk?
     - Email/share this:     - Literary Review 

 There’s One Country In The Americas Where An Indigenous Language Is Still In Constant Use
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 



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