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International Festival of Arts & Ideas – Director of Programming & Community Impact
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TODAY'S ARTS & CULTURE NEWS ~ 08/29/2020

DANCE

David Hallberg Looks Back On His Final Days At The Bolshoi

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IDEAS

Is New York Over?

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ISSUES

“I Didn’t Realize How Much I Missed Applause”

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Applause Is The Crucial Thing We Lack In Performances Without An Audience

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MEDIA

What’s Lost When Film Festivals Go Virtual

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Should Critics Be Reviewing Movies Showing In Theaters While COVID Is Still Rampant?

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As Movie Theatres Reopen, Audiences Weigh The Safety Calculation

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Bolsonaro Gov’t Is Dismantling South America’s Largest Film And TV Archive

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Hundreds Of Canadian Radio And TV Stations Warn They’ll Have To Close

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MUSIC

Meet The Musicians Who Are Going To The Scenes Of Tragedies to Play

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What Came Out Of The First-Ever ‘Opera Hack’? This

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Much-Lauded Black-Run Jazz Label Faces Up To A Complicated History

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Ani DiFranco’s Plan To Give Prisoners A Voice

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PEOPLE

The Former Judge Who Writes Angry Letters To Journalists

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Bill Arnett, Dead At 81, Brought Unknown Southern Black Artists To The World’s Attention

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THEATRE

Was Last Summer’s ‘South Pacific’ At The Aspen Festival Racist?

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Major Broadway Theater Operator Sues Insurers For Coronavirus Payments

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VISUAL

What Ancient Statues Tell Us About Universal Facial Expressions

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Old Dutch Master Painting Stolen For Third Time In 32 Years

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WORDS

Eight Trends In Recent Book Cover Art

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Why Do Writers Get So Little For Movie Rights?

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Why Won’t Publishers Fact-Check Their Nonfiction Books?

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Powell’s Books Says It Will Stop Selling Through Amazon

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The Nonprofit That Sends Books To Young Prisoners — And Pushes To Abolish Prisons

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