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FROM TODAY'S ARTSJOURNAL BLOGS
Nyerges on the Purges: Virginia MFA’s Director Defends Bondil, Himself, Other Beleaguered Leaders 

Already battered financially by the pandemic, many art museums now find themselves barraged by attacks from aggrieved staffers and former employees accusing the higher-ups of racism, harassment and micro-aggressions. But until Alex Nyerges candidly responded to my post about the firing of Montreal Museum of Fine Arts director Nathalie Bondil, I hadn’t come across any major museum officials who dared to publicly contradict the critics. – Lee Rosenbaum




 
TODAY'S ARTS & CULTURE NEWS ~ 07/24/2020

DANCE
Misty Copeland On How Protests Are Waking Up The Dance World 
     - Email/share thisThe Root 

What NBC’s ‘World Of Dance’ Gets Right 
     - Email/share thisWashington Post 


IDEAS
The Harvard Professor Who Turned Distance Learning Into A High Art
     - Email/share this  - The New Yorker 

Will Self: Zooming Into Dystopia?
     - Email/share this  - Prospect 

The Brain Science Of Being In Love
     - Email/share this  - Nautilus 

Which Roles Can The Arts Fill Beyond COVID?
     - Email/share this  - The Philanthropist 

Flexible Work Should Be Liberating. So Why Isn’t It?
     - Email/share this  - Aeon 


ISSUES
A Bail-Out For The Arts? We Need More
     - Email/share this  - BBC 

Kick The Cars Off 7th Avenue And Turn It Into An Outdoor Arts Center, Says Carnegie Hall Chief
     - Email/share this  - Gothamist 

A Third Of U.S. Museum Directors Fear That COVID Could Shut Down Their Institutions For Good
     - Email/share this  - NPR 


MEDIA
‘Serial’ Bought By New York Times, Which Signs Partnership Deal With ‘This American Life’
     - Email/share this  - Variety 

To Fix America, We Have To Start Over With Social Media
     - Email/share this  - Wired 


MUSIC
Stop Calling This Composer And Polymath ‘The Black Mozart’
     - Email/share this  - New York Times 

Twelve Ways The Pandemic Will (Okay, Might) Change The Classical Music Business
     - Email/share this  - Ludwig Van 

Adventures In Choral Singing From A Safe Distance
     - Email/share this  - NewMusicBox 


PEOPLE
Annie Ross, Star Of ‘The Greatest Jazz Vocal Group That Ever Was,’ Dead At 89
     - Email/share this  - Washington Post 


THEATRE
There Are Plenty Of Black Plays Ready For Broadway When It Reopens. Will Broadway Take Them?
     - Email/share this  - New York Times 


VISUAL
Marciano Foundation Settles With Laid-off Union-Organizing Workers
     - Email/share this  - Los Angeles Times 

Quebec Government To Investigate Firing Of Museum Director
     - Email/share this  - The New York Times 

Some Of Hagia Sophia’s Mosaics Will Be Covered During Muslim Prayers
     - Email/share this  - Artnet 

A Third Of U.S. Museum Directors Fear That COVID Could Shut Down Their Institutions For Good
     - Email/share this  - NPR 

Notre-Dame Reconstruction: Where Things Stand Now
     - Email/share this  - The Art Newspaper 

SFMoMA’s Self-Examination After Resignation of Curator
     - Email/share this  - The New York Times 


WORDS
 Why Pandemic Literature Doesn’t Work (So Far)
     - Email/share this  - The Atlantic 

 All Those Anti-Racism Books Are Not Going To Fix Things
     - Email/share this  - The Atlantic 



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