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VPAC PRESENTS: Joshua Bell & Larisa Martínez’s “Voice and the Violin” with Pianist Peter Dugan
 Most seminal event in classical music since global onset of COVID-19 on August 14th in Vail, CO! [READ MORE]
 
J.S. Bach: The Six Solo Cello Suites Performed by Wendy Sutter
 Sunday, August 23 Perspectives Ensemble presents a two-part event: J.S. Bach: The Six Solo Cello Suites Performed by Wendy Sutter Part I: 3pm EDT (Suites 1-3) and Part II: 6pm EDT (Suites 4-6) Livestreamed from Judson Memorial Church, New York City. [READ MORE]
 
Golden Thread Productions Hiring New Executive Artistic Director
 Golden Thread Productions is seeking a new Executive Artistic Director to follow in the footsteps of Founding Artistic Director Torange Yeghiazarian. [READ MORE]
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FROM TODAY'S ARTSJOURNAL BLOGS
Five Things to Fix in the Arts (and Now is the Time to do it) 

The shutdown has suspended usual rules, positions and behaviors, suggesting there may be opportunities to not just rethink but take action.

 


Salort-Pons’ Response: Detroit Institute’s Director Tussles with Anonymous Detractors 

Showing a courage and candor that’s been in short supply among museum officials navigating the choppy waters of racial tensions, political unrest and economic difficulty, Salvador Salort-Pons has publicly engaged with a Change.org petition calling for his removal. – Lee Rosenbaum

 



 
TODAY'S ARTS & CULTURE NEWS ~ 08/09/2020

DANCE
Six Of Dance Magazine’s Favorite Quarantine Digital Dance Projects
     - Email/share this:     - Dance Magazine 

Black Dancers Are ‘Reclaiming’ Richmond’s Robert E. Lee Monument
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

‘A Video Diary Of What Dancers Do Inside’: Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s New Choreography Project(s)
     - Email/share this:     - Pointe Magazine 

Pointe Shoes: A Brief History
     - Email/share this:     - Pointe Magazine 

Trey McIntyre Project Is Back, But It’s Not A Dance Company Anymore
     - Email/share this:     - Dance Magazine 

Even Out At The Beach, This NYC Dance Festival Couldn’t Go Ahead This Year. Here’s What Happened Instead
     - Email/share this:     - Dance Magazine 

God, What A Treat To See Live Dance Again, Writes New York Times Critic
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 


IDEAS
Our Collective Dreams Of Rome
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian (UK) 

Some Creative Ways To Reopen Theme Parks Safely
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

Can German (Can Any) City Centers Be Saved During The Coronavirus?
     - Email/share this:     - Der Spiegel 

Of Experts And The Willingness To Be Wrong
     - Email/share this:     - Aeon 

When Fans Of A Show Become Its Owners
     - Email/share this:     - The Walrus 

Frustrating: Quality Information Costs While Lies Are Free
     - Email/share this:     - Current Affairs 

How Remote Work Will Remake American Cities
     - Email/share this:     - The Atlantic 

Abstract Art Can Changes Your Mindset: Study
     - Email/share this:     - Inverse 

Tracing The Ancient Art Of Bullshit
     - Email/share this:     - Lithub 

Princeton’s Existential Crisis
     - Email/share this:     - The Atlantic 

New AI Browser Extension Factchecks What You’re Seeing
     - Email/share this:     - Fast Company 

Understanding The Charismatic Leader
     - Email/share this:     - Times Literaary Supplement 

Do We Really Want Brain-To-Brain Communication?
     - Email/share this:     - Psyche 

Writing To Write… And Not To Be Read. This Is Academia
     - Email/share this:     - The Point 

Should Unions Be Compulsory?
     - Email/share this:     - Aeon 

The Weaponizing Of Free Speech
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 

A Machine That Responds Intelligently To Queries
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 


ISSUES
Can A Fictional Character Defame A Real Human?
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 

Kristy Edmunds: Why We Need Artists To Help Fix Things
     - Email/share this:     - KCET 

What’s The Definition Of ‘Museum’? The International Council Of Museums Is Tearing Itself Up Over That Question
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

The World’s Nightlife On Hold. (And Yet…)
     - Email/share this:     - Bloomberg 

Rethinking (And Reinvesting In) Our Public Spaces
     - Email/share this:     - Medium 

Stripped-Down Salzburg Festival Opens
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

How To Think About Leadership Transitions
     - Email/share this:     - American Theatre 

Well, England Didn’t Re-Start Indoor Performances On August 1 After All
     - Email/share this:     - WhatsOnStage 


MEDIA
Britain’s Scariest Horror Film Disappeared For Decades
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian (UK) 

Zoe Saldana Apologizes For Playing Nina Simone
     - Email/share this:     - BBC 

Reporter At DC’s WAMU Harassed Female Colleagues For Years — And Kept His Job After Two Final Warnings
     - Email/share this:     - DCist 

Mao Zedong’s Home Province Is Now The Hotbed Of Chinese Commercial TV
     - Email/share this:     - The Economist 

Reality Dating Shows And What They’ve Done To America
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 

UK Report: TV Watching Surged During Lockdown
     - Email/share this:     - BBC 

Disney Posts A Near $5 Billion Loss In Q2
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

Report: Hollywood Has A Problem With Chinese Censorship
     - Email/share this:     - Deadline 

Why ‘Norma Rae’ Is, After 41 Years, As Relevant As Ever
     - Email/share this:     - The New Yorker 

Even The ‘Veep’ Showrunner Says Trump’s Axios Interview Outdid ‘Veep’
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 

Journalist Sues Hollywood Foreign Press Association (Golden Globes)
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

The Muppeteers Need To Concentrate On Some Other, Any Other, Couple Than Kermit And Miss Piggy
     - Email/share this:     - Slate 

YouTube – Designed To Addict (But To What?)
     - Email/share this:     - 3 Quarks Daily 

There’s A New Genre In Town: Quar-Horror
     - Email/share this:     - NPR 

Is That Dead Air Time? No, It’s Deliberate Peace And Quiet On The Airwaves
     - Email/share this:     - Nieman Lab 


MUSIC
Where’s Classical Music Performance Headed Post-COVID? Here Are Some Clues
     - Email/share this:     - WQXR (New York City) 

Stop Panicking Over The Age Of Classical Audiences, Says NY Times Chief Critic
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

Lessons On Coping With COVID From A Bankrupt Opera House In 17th-Century France
     - Email/share this:     - Early Music America 

Can Neil Young Really Win A Lawsuit Against Trump Playing His Music At Rallies?
     - Email/share this:     - Rolling Stone 

Virtuosity Doesn’t Mean Playing Lots Of Notes
     - Email/share this:     - Psyche 

The Forgotten Black Musician Who Helped Create Bossa Nova
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

San Francisco Opera Costume Shop Repurposed: Sews 10,000 Masks
     - Email/share this:     - NBC San Francisco 

Notre-Dame’s Organ Is Being Taken Apart Piece By Piece To Get The Lead Out
     - Email/share this:     - Yahoo! (AP) 

Musicians Blast Spotify CEO For Comments On Royalties
     - Email/share this:     - HuffPost 

Neighbors Performing Music For Neighbors Hasn’t Stopped
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Time 

It Took 80 Years For This Piece By Composer Ulysses Kay To Have Its World Premiere
     - Email/share this:     - WBUR 

That Time A Research Librarian Discovered His Library Owned A First Edition Of Beethoven’s Sixth
     - Email/share this:     - Winston-Salem 


PEOPLE
Pulitzer Prize-winning Author Shirley Grau Has Died At 91
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times (AP) 

Lorenzo Soria, President Of Golden Globes Group, 68
     - Email/share this:     - St . Louis Post-Dispatch (AP) 

Warner Henry, 82 – Quintessential LA Classical Music Funder
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

Helen Jones Woods, Trombonist With Groundbreaking All-Women Jazz Band, Dead Of COVID At 96
     - Email/share this:     - WBGO (Newark, NJ) 

Leon Fleisher: More About The Struggle Than The Triumph
     - Email/share this:     - Van 

Eric Bentley, One Of 20th-Century Theatre’s Most Important Critics, Dead At 103
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

The World’s New Favorite Refugee Writer Tries To Get Comfortable With Freedom And Fame
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times Magazine 

Washington Post’s Theater Critic Ends Up With A Hairdressing Degree (What Twitter Hath Wrought, Part MMMDCLXII)
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 

Pete Hamill, The Ultimate New York Newspaperman, Dead At 85
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

Reclaiming The Life Story Of America’s First Published Black Poet
     - Email/share this:     - The New Yorker 

James Silberman, Who Edited Books That Changed America, Dead At 93
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

Remembering Leon Fleisher
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 

Victor Victor, Musician Who Brought Music, Dance, And Theatre To The Underprivileged, 71
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Obie Award Winner Vinie Burrows Has Been Working In Theatre For More Than Seven Decades
     - Email/share this:     - American Theatre 


THEATRE
Theatre Kind Of Returns With (Of Course) Godspell
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

Is The British Theatre Critic Tradition Coming To An End?
     - Email/share this:     - The Critic 

Instead Of Canceling Its Next Production When COVID Hit, This Theater Completely Reimagined It
     - Email/share this:     - NPR 

An Opportunity To Diversify Your Theatre
     - Email/share this:     - Howlround 

‘Not To Put Any Pressure On You, But The Entire American Theater Is Depending On You To Be Really Smart’
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

England’s Theatres Reeling As Christmas Pantos Get Cancelled
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

The Edinburgh Fringe And The Post-COVID Future
     - Email/share this:     - The Stage 

Turning The Edinburgh Fringe Virtual
     - Email/share this:     - The Stage 

Theatre’s Overlooked Casualties Of The Pandemic: Publicists
     - Email/share this:     - The Stage 

Unemployment In UK Theatre Up By Two-Thirds In Just A Few Weeks
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

Is Standup Comedy Theatre?
     - Email/share this:     - The Conversation 

Smart: This Theatre Signed Up For Pandemic Insurance Before The Pandemic
     - Email/share this:     - National Post (Canada) 

Coming Soon: Salvador Mundi, The Musical
     - Email/share this:     - CNN 


VISUAL
Raphael Probably Was Buried At The Pantheon
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian (UK) 

Visual Artists Stuck At Home Are Using The Virtual World As Source Material
     - Email/share this:     - CBC 

In A Very Abnormal Year, Indigenous Art Persists
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian (UK) 

Tourist Fesses Up To Breaking Toes Off Canova Sculpture
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Frank Gehry’s New Eisenhower Memorial In DC – Last Of The “Great Men” Memorials?
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 

Staffers At Philadelphia Museum Of Art Vote Overwhelmingly To Unionize
     - Email/share this:     - Philadelphia Inquirer 

What’s The Definition Of ‘Museum’? The International Council Of Museums Is Tearing Itself Up Over That Question
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

What A Profound Design Revolution Curb Cuts Were
     - Email/share this:     - Bloomberg 

How Instagram Is Changing The Job Of A Critic
     - Email/share this:     - The Nation 

Meet Canada’s New $2 Coin
     - Email/share this:     - CBC 

Abstract Art Can Changes Your Mindset: Study
     - Email/share this:     - Inverse 

All The Flags Now At NYC’s Rockefeller Center Were Custom-Designed By Artists (Some Of Them Quite Famous)
     - Email/share this:     - Artnet 

Seattle Children’s Museum In Turmoil Over Black Lives Matter Post
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Call For More Transparency In Choosing Public Art
     - Email/share this:     - ARTnews 

Installation Art As Big Business Proposition (Think Of Kusama Infinity Rooms, But For Profit)
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

Beirut Explosion Wrecks Galleries And Museums
     - Email/share this:     - The Art Newspaper 

Cultural Turmoil In Bolivia – Museum Directors Fired
     - Email/share this:     - Apollo 

Met Museum Ends Free Internships – Now They’ll All Be Paid
     - Email/share this:     - The Art Newspaper 

Time To Repatriate Africa’s Heritage
     - Email/share this:     - Foreign Policy 

Another Selfie-Greedy Tourist Breaks Another Artwork
     - Email/share this:     - Artnet 

Putting Up A Monument To The Unknown Enslaved People Of The United States
     - Email/share this:     - NPR 


WORDS
 Even When We Can’t Travel, Postcards Exist Outside Of Email And Texts To Create Connection
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

 How Do We Solve A Problem Like William Faulkner?
     - Email/share this:     - The Atlantic 

 Weird 2020 Moments Continue, With A Booker Longlist That People Actually Want To Read
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian (UK) 

 Reading The First Drafts Of Anna Karenina Is Revealing
     - Email/share this:     - LitHub 

 Trying To Fix A Deeply Flawed Trilogy More Than A Decade After Its Publication
     - Email/share this:     - Slate 

 Bon Appetit’s Only Two Black Editorial Staff Members Quit In Continuing Controversy
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

 Meme Me – How Memes Work
     - Email/share this:     - JSTOR 

 The Trump Book Industry
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

 What I Learned From The Worst-Reviewed Novel Ever
     - Email/share this:     - The New Republic 

 AI That Writes Prose And Poetry Is Getting Stronger (Uh-Oh)
     - Email/share this:     - The Economist 

 Reckoning With The Ugly Racist Origins Of Some Of American English’s Most Common Expressions
     - Email/share this:     - Boston Globe 

 Fifty Years After His Messy Suicide, Yukio Mishima’s Fiction Is Coming Back To The Fore
     - Email/share this:     - Metropolis (Japan) 

 An App For Serialized Novels Draws Tens Of Millions In Investment Dollars
     - Email/share this:     - Deadline 

 Everyone’s A Copy Editor In This New Card Game For Word Nerds
     - Email/share this:     - The New Yorker 

 A COVID Face Mask That Can Translate Eight Languages And Take Dictation
     - Email/share this:     - CNN 



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