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FROM TODAY'S ARTSJOURNAL BLOGS
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 ~ 08/27/2020

DANCE
Miami City Ballet Cancels Previously Announced 2020-21 Season 
     - Email/share thisMiami Today 


IDEAS
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 


ISSUES
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 


MEDIA
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 


MUSIC
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 


PEOPLE
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 


THEATRE
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 


VISUAL
‘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 


WORDS
 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 



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