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Israela Margalit’s streaming show CROSSROADS gets an encore presentation
 Enjoyed around the world during its initial presentation, Crossroads is written by award-winning playwright Israela Margalit and features six short plays about love, regret, and new beginnings. [READ MORE]
 
Charleston’s Gaillard Center seeks President and CEO
 Home to Spoleto Festival USA and the Charleston Symphony Orchestra, the President and CEO will guide this elegantly designed performance hall and event space into its next phase of institutional growth and performance excellence. [READ MORE]
 
January Deadline for the Royal Academy of Arts’ Executive Master in Cultural Leadership
 The Royal Academy of Arts’ Executive Master in Cultural Leadership is designed for professionals from any industry and provides a 360 degree view of the arts and culture sectors. Developed jointly by the RA and Maastricht University. [READ MORE]
 
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FROM TODAY'S ARTSJOURNAL BLOGS
‘Burroughs and the Dharma,’ the Real Story 

James Grauerholz: “William was not a Buddhist: he never sought or found a “Teacher,” he never took Refuge, and he never undertook any Bodhisattva vows. He did not consider himself a Buddhist, nor — for that matter — did he ever declare himself a follower of any one faith or practice. But he did have an awareness of the essentials of Buddhism, and in his own way, he was affected by bodhidharma.” – Jan Herman

 


Frick Tricks: Reinvention to Convention, as Peripatetic Displays Move from Brutalist to Beaux Arts 

While many museums are experimenting with quirky new ways of organizing their permanent-collection displays, the Frick Collection is going in the opposite direction: It will use its planned temporary occupation of the Breuer building to unveil a more conventionally coherent presentation of its holdings than was seen in its flagship building. – Lee Rosenbaum

 


Dancing on Stone and in Water 

I’ve said it before, and forgive me if I say it again: Dancers can’t not dance. There they are on my laptop’s window — at work in their apartments, in parks, on piers, and in empty streets. Maybe partners and roommates have filmed you performing; maybe you just attached your cell phone to a music stand and shooed the cat away. Dušan Týnek’s Quarry Dance IX is nothing like that. – Deborah Jowitt

 



 
TODAY'S ARTS & CULTURE NEWS ~ 12/20/2020

DANCE
How The Ailey Company Is Dealing With The Pandemic
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

How To Deal With Offending Classics?
     - Email/share this:     - MassReview 

How Annabelle Lopez Ochoa Transformed Her Choreography To Adapt To Lockdown
     - Email/share this:     - Bachtrack 

At Least One Ballet Company Can Do A Live ‘Nutcracker’ This Year — Outdoors, Under Palm Trees
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

Ballet Company Ordered To Reinstate Dancer Fired For Breaking Quarantine
     - Email/share this:     - Gramilano (Milan) 

Bruk Up: A Street Dancer Talks About Moving In Pieces
     - Email/share this:     - BBC 

New Dance Park On The Hudson Announces Its First Spring Festival
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 


IDEAS
Wood’s A Great Building Material, Except For That Little Thing Called A Legacy
     - Email/share this:     - LitHub 

The Psychology Behind Great Gift-Giving
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Regrets About The Life You’ve Lived?
     - Email/share this:     - The New Yorker 

Why Play Is Essential To Ideas
     - Email/share this:     - Nautilus 

The Complications Of What Tolerance And Respect Mean
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

Facebook’s Doom Machine
     - Email/share this:     - The Atlantic 

What Art Restoration Might Have To Teach Us About Repairing The Environment
     - Email/share this:     - Aeon 

How The Internet Broke Our Brains
     - Email/share this:     - The Atlantic 

What Ancient Cave Art Teaches Us About The Place Of Art In Human Existence
     - Email/share this:     - Aeon 


ISSUES
The Head Of Americans For The Arts Steps Aside After Many, Many Workplace Complaints
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Is Making Movies Worth It Right Now?
     - Email/share this:     - The Atlantic 

As Britain Goes Under A New Lockdown, Insurance Extended For Actors And Crew Members
     - Email/share this:     - Variety 

Venice’s €6 Billion Flood Barrier Probably Won’t Be Enough
     - Email/share this:     - Curbed 

It’s Been Six Months, And Australian Arts Organizations Still Haven’t Gotten Any Rescue Fund Money
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

City Of Austin Radically Reimagines Its Arts Funding
     - Email/share this:     - Sightlines 

The Looming Crisis For Immigrant Artists In The US
     - Email/share this:     - Dance Magazine 

Amid Firestorm, Americans For The Arts CEO Goes On Paid Leave
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 

NYC’s 4,500 Teaching Artists Are Out Of Luck
     - Email/share this:     - Gothamist 

Calls Grow For Americans For The Arts’ CEO To Resign
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 

City Of Seattle Starts An Arts Real Estate Company
     - Email/share this:     - Crosscut 

Trump And The Culture Wars, The Source Of His Power
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

French Arts Workers March Against Extension Of COVID Restrictions
     - Email/share this:     - BBC 

Gitxsan Got Talent: Indigenous Community Harnesses Internet To Champion Its Culture
     - Email/share this:     - Global Voices 

Arts Ed Group Calls For Resignations At Americans For The Arts
     - Email/share this:     - Hyperallergic 

New York City’s Arts Groups May Start Performing Again This Spring — Outdoors
     - Email/share this:     - Gothamist 

How COVID Changed The Arts In 2020
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

London’s Theatres And Concert Halls Closed Again As COVID Cases Multiply
     - Email/share this:     - London Evening Standard 

Did American Cities Build Too Many Luxury Developments?
     - Email/share this:     - Slate 


MEDIA
Yes, It Absolutely Is A Big Deal To Have Queer Christmas Movies
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

The Creative Team Of ‘Ma Rainey’ Used Horsehair To Reflect Actual Hairstyles Of The 1920s
     - Email/share this:     - Variety 

It Sure Got Easier To Binge-Watch Shows This Year
     - Email/share this:     - The Atlantic 

Many TV Shows Shut Down Because Of Positive Tests – Many Of Them False Positives
     - Email/share this:     - Vulture 

The Berlin Film Festival Is Now Delayed
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Late-Night TV’s Trump Problem
     - Email/share this:     - The Atlantic 

2020 Is The Year TikTok Started Transforming The World
     - Email/share this:     - BBC 

Why Right-Wing Talk Radio Is So Effective
     - Email/share this:     - The Nation 

Spotify To Stream NPR Podcasts Internationally
     - Email/share this:     - Variety 

Man Who Burned Down Kyoto Animation Studio Charged With Murder
     - Email/share this:     - Variety 

Are Movie Studios Killing Theatres In Favor Of Streaming?
     - Email/share this:     - Chicago Tribune 

AI Can Now Translate Movie Dialog In The Actors Voices
     - Email/share this:     - Protocol 

All Hollywood Is Furious At Warner Bros. (Nobody Blames The Streamers)
     - Email/share this:     - Hollywood Reporter 

Vox Media’s CEO Doesn’t Want It To Be Like Condé Nast. He Wants It To Be Like Disney.
     - Email/share this:     - Vanity Fair 

Could The Streaming Wars Hit Their Peak In 2021?
     - Email/share this:     - Wired 

TV’s Landscape Had Several New Nonbinary Characters This Year
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

The Head Of WarnerMedia Is Suddenly An Industry-Wide Supervillain
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 


MUSIC
Philadelphia Orchestra’s New Principal Guest Conductor Says It’s A Good Time For Women On The Podium
     - Email/share this:     - Philadelphia Inquirer 

Record Intact: Boston’s H&H Extends Its Streak To 167 Years Of Messiahs. Here’s How
     - Email/share this:     - Boston Globe 

What It’s Like To Be A Trans-Gender Opera Singer
     - Email/share this:     - OperaCanada 

A (Detailed) Account Of How Mozart Composed His First Symphony
     - Email/share this:     - LitHub 

Pay Cuts At U.S. Orchestras May Last Beyond The Pandemic
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

Classical Music’s Real Heroes Of 2020? Video Engineers
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

America’s First Fully-Staged Indoor Opera Performances Since COVID Arrived Are This Weekend
     - Email/share this:     - Orlando Weekly 

A Historic Detroit Music Venue To Become An Amazon Factory?
     - Email/share this:     - Detroit Metro Times 

Discovered: Earliest Known English Church Anthem Composed By A Woman
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

How Country Music Obscured Its Black Roots
     - Email/share this:     - The Conversation 

How Notre-Dame’s Enormous Grand Organ Was Taken Apart For Cleaning
     - Email/share this:     - Smithsonian Magazine 

Playing And Singing With Plexiglas Between Musicians May Not Be As COVID-Safe As You Think
     - Email/share this:     - NJ.com 

Classical Music’s Real Diversity Problem? Class
     - Email/share this:     - The New Republic 

Calling 2020 ‘The Year The Music Died’ Is Far More Truth Than Cliche
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

Prolific New Music Composer Molly Joyce Blazes A Trail
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 


PEOPLE
Stanley Cowell, Versatile And Innovative Jazz Pianist, 79
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 

The Complicated Career Of Louis Armstrong
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

Dorothy Gill Barnes, Sculptor In Wood And Tree Bark, Dead Of COVID At 93
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

Ian Jenkins, Archaeologist And Curator Who Oversaw The Elgin Marbles, Dead At 67
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

How Nikki Giovanni Has Remained A Household-Name Poet (!) For 50 Years
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

Controversial Korean Filmmaker Kim Ki-Duk, 59, Dead Of COVID
     - Email/share this:     - Hollywood Reporter 

Ann Reinking, Tony-Winning Dancer-Actor-Choreographer, Dead At 71
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

The Cost Of Being Charley Pride
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Ben Bova, Science Fiction Writer And Editor Of Prominent SF Magazines, 88
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Carol Sutton Of Steel Magnolias, Queen Sugar, And Hundreds Of Other Projects, 76
     - Email/share this:     - NPR 

Anthony Veasna So, Whose First Book Was The Subject Of A Bidding War, Has Died At 28
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 


THEATRE
Seattle Theatre Leaders Help The Arts World Understand How To Go Far Beyond Lip Service To Anti-Racist Changes
     - Email/share this:     - Seattle Times 

The Path From Broadway To Your TV Screen Is, While Now Familiar, Still Bumpy
     - Email/share this:     - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/18/theater/broadway-film-adaptations.html 

Why Netflix’s ‘Ma Rainey’ Ends With A Scene That’s Not In The Play
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

Theatre That Steps Outside The Theatre
     - Email/share this:     - American Theatre 

Robert Musil As Playwright
     - Email/share this:     - Literary Hub 

Performers Angry As One Of Australia’s Fringe Festivals Adds Non-Disparagement ‘Gag Order’ To Contracts
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

By The Numbers: What Theatre Looked Like In 2019
     - Email/share this:     - American Theatre 

Queering The Christmas Pantomime
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

Consolidation: Major Broadway Theatrical Licensing Agency Is Sold To Competitor
     - Email/share this:     - Variety 

The Source Story For ‘King Lear’ Had A Happy Ending. Why Did Shakespeare Make It A Tragedy?
     - Email/share this:     - The Observer (UK) 

Thirteen Ways Of Thinking About A Play
     - Email/share this:     - Howlround 

The Makings Of A New Theatre Podcast Empire?
     - Email/share this:     - Forbes 

Black Student Expelled From Elite Private School After Mother Objects To ‘Fences’ Too Strongly
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

Christmas Carol Is More Than Humbug, Even For Those Weary Of Tiny Tim
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 


VISUAL
There’s A What In This Year’s Vatican Nativity Scene?
     - Email/share this:     - Hyperallergic 

The Art Of This Summer’s Protest Movements
     - Email/share this:     - NPR 

Another Delay For The Film Academy’s Museum
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

French Senate Nearly Squashed Return Of Statues To Benin
     - Email/share this:     - ARTnews 

Should A Museum Diversify By Selling Some Of Its Best Art?
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

All The Ways Senator Mike Lee Is Wrong In Blocking A National Latinx Museum
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

Virginia Governor Allocates $11 Million To Revamp Richmond’s Monument Avenue
     - Email/share this:     - Artnet 

Court Rules For Museum, Against Heirs In Case Of Kandinsky Bought Under Nazis
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Giant, Centuries-Old Headless Buddha Discovered In Chinese City
     - Email/share this:     - South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) 

Yves Tanguy Painting Rescued From Airport Dumpster
     - Email/share this:     - Smithsonian Magazine 

Mexico’s Museums Are Desperate — And Afraid To Say So: Commission
     - Email/share this:     - Artnet 

Struggling Museums Turn To Artists For Help
     - Email/share this:     - Artnet 

Proposed Hirshhorn Garden Makeover Faces Skeptical Park Commission
     - Email/share this:     - The Cultural Landscape Foundation 

Major Find: Fifth-Century Roman Mosaic Uncovered In England
     - Email/share this:     - ARTnews 

The Best Architecture of 2020
     - Email/share this:     - dezeen 


WORDS
 Some Writers Spend Their Time On Christmas Novels All Year Long
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian (UK) 

 Laid-Off Publishing Pros Reject Corporate Publishing To Start Their Own Press
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

 How The New Yorker Got Tricked In One Of Its Best-Known Articles
     - Email/share this:     - The New Republic 

 Unknown Shirley Jackson Short Story Published For First Time
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

 The Problem With Hatchet Job Restaurant Reviews
     - Email/share this:     - The New Republic 

 The Double Bind For Writers Of Color
     - Email/share this:     - The Walrus 

 The Birth Of America’s Penny Press
     - Email/share this:     - New York Review of Books 

 Who The Book Thieves Are
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

 Archaeologist Deciphers 4,400-Year-Old Writing System, Now Tied For World’s Oldest
     - Email/share this:     - Sciences et Avenir (France) 

 Poets On COVID – Is This All There Is?
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

 By The Numbers: Just How White Publishing Is In America
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

 A Plea For Books For Christmas
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 



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