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Bondil Ordeal: Another Face Off Between a Prominent Museum Official & Staff

True to her outspoken nature, Nathalie Bondil, the summarily sacked 13-year director of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, is not going quietly. Having gotten a taste of her feistiness and grit during a meeting we had three years ago in New York, I’m not surprised. – Lee Rosenbaum

RIP Annie Ross: Her last stand with Jon Hendricks

I reported on her last stand with fellow vocalese icon Jon Hendricks, at the Blue Note in Manhattan for the newspaper City Arts. – Howard Mandel

TODAY'S ARTS & CULTURE NEWS ~ 07/23/2020

DANCE

BalletX Is Turning Its Next Season Into A Film Festival

- Email/share this - Philadelphia Inquirer

Two National Ballet Of Canada Dancers Retire With 114 Years Service Between Them

- Email/share this - Toronto Star

IDEAS

Flexible Work Should Be Liberating. So Why Isn’t It?

- Email/share this - Aeon

Aristotle Defended Slavery and thought Women Were Inferior. Cancel Him?

- Email/share this - The New York Times

ISSUES

Needed: A New Deal For The Arts

- Email/share this - Crosscut

Arts Center In Sydney Is Saved From Liquidation — But At The Expense Of Some Artists

- Email/share this - The Guardian

MEDIA

To Fix America, We Have To Start Over With Social Media

- Email/share this - Wired

Gunman Frees Hostages After Ukraine’s President Endorses ‘Earthlings’

- Email/share this - BBC

Hollywood Releases Its Movies In US First. Rest Of The World Is Waiting As Its Theatres Reopen

- Email/share this - The Guardian

Cord-Cutting Really Is Starting To Strangle Cable TV. So What Are The Cable Networks Doing?

- Email/share this - Variety

There Are Four Kinds Of Streaming Video Viewers, Says Hulu Report

- Email/share this - Hollywood Reporter

What Netflix’s List Of Ten Most-Watched Shows Tells Us

- Email/share this - Irish Times

MUSIC

Adventures In Choral Singing From A Safe Distance

- Email/share this - NewMusicBox

Now Here’s A Black Female Composer Worth Rediscovering: W.E.B. Du Bois’s Wife

- Email/share this - WQXR (New York City)

PEOPLE

Christopher Dickey, Journalist And Memoirist, Dead At 68

- Email/share this - Washington Post

John Williams at 88

- Email/share this - The New Yorker

Famed Hopi-Tewa Hoop Dancer Nakotah LaRance, 30, Dies In Fall

- Email/share this - New York Times

THEATRE

Virtual Theatre Is Changing The Notion Of Theatre

- Email/share this - The Conversation

Black Theatermakers In Europe Talk About The Change They’re Working Toward

- Email/share this - New York Times

VISUAL

SFMoMA’s Self-Examination After Resignation of Curator

- Email/share this - The New York Times

How Yayoi Kusama Became A Global Industry

- Email/share this - ARTnews

WORDS

Sales of Books In UK Hit Record In 2019. This Year? Not So Much

- Email/share this - The Guardian

New COVID Emergency Fund For Nonprofit Presses And Literary Organizations

- Email/share this - Yahoo! (AP)

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