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J.S. Bach: The Six Solo Cello Suites Performed by Wendy Sutter
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TODAY'S ARTS & CULTURE NEWS ~ 08/14/2020

DANCE
Here’s One Set Of Turf Dancers On The Subway Who Are Actual Professionals 
     - Email/share thisDance Magazine 


IDEAS
Life In The Fast Lane? It Comes With A Cost
     - Email/share this  - Anonymous 

How Swedish Culture Explains Its Response To COVID
     - Email/share this  - Unherd 

Why Exams Continue To Be The Gold Standard For Education
     - Email/share this  - Unherd 

How The Internet Turned People Into Users
     - Email/share this  - The Nation 


ISSUES
Report: Cultural Institutions Spent Almost $8 Billion On Buildings Last Year
     - Email/share this  - Artnet 

Report: Racism At Canadian Museum Of Human Rights
     - Email/share this  - The Conversation 

The Anonymous Armies Of Culture Cops Who Actually Police The Internet
     - Email/share this  - Nautilus 


MEDIA
Hollywood Movie Production Restarts (But Not In Hollywood)
     - Email/share this  - The New York Times 

AMC Says It Will Open Its Movie Theatres Next Week
     - Email/share this  - The Verge 

How A Turkish Historical Drama Became ‘The Muslim ‘Game Of Thrones”
     - Email/share this  - The Guardian 

Antitrust Rules Against Studios Owning Movie Theaters Struck Down (Will That Save The Theaters?)
     - Email/share this  - Wired 


MUSIC
Is Singing Together During COVID Safe?
     - Email/share this  - NPR 

First Woman To Conduct Opera At Salzburg Festival Isn’t Much Interested In Gender
     - Email/share this  - New York Times 


PEOPLE
So Who Was ‘Jim Crow’, Anyway?
     - Email/share this  - Mental Floss 

Matt Herron, Photojournalist Who Documented Civil Rights Struggle In Deep South, Dead At 89
     - Email/share this  - New York Times 


THEATRE
If COVID Means Audiences Can’t Sit Through These Shows, Then They Can Walk Through Them
     - Email/share this  - New York Times 

Five Months Into The Pandemic, How Are The National Theatres In England, Scotland, And Wales Holding Up?
     - Email/share this  - The Stage 


VISUAL
NY’s High Line Asks For Public Help In Choosing Next Sculpture
     - Email/share this  - The Art Newspaper 

Berliners Worry About The Health Of The City’s Visual Arts
     - Email/share this  - The New York Times 

Staff At Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Say Director’s Firing Was Justified
     - Email/share this  - The Art Newspaper 

Tate Galleries To Eliminate Half Of All Retail Jobs
     - Email/share this  - The Guardian 


WORDS
 Tribune Company Closing Newsrooms At Five Papers, Including New York And Orlando
     - Email/share this  - Yahoo! (AP) 

 The End Of Second-Hand Bookstores?
     - Email/share this  - The Critic 



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