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Tuesday, May 19, 2020

Both Venice Biennales Postponed For A Year by Artsjournal1

This year's Venice Architecture Biennale, which had already been rescheduled from this spring to August, will now take place in the late summer and fall of 2021; next year's (art) Biennale w…

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Beans in My Closet by Artsjournal1

Beans and poverty. Beans and diversity. "Here's a recipe" leads to a doubtful bean cul-de-sac, no matter how much chopped and shredded you throw on top and shove in the oven till the eternal…

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How Technology is Shaping Opera by Artsjournal1

Opera America had asked me to speak at their annual conference this year, but of course the conference was canceled and moved online. So I made this video for the online conference, talking …

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What Comes Next? III by Artsjournal1

If we as a nation come out of the pandemic with a heightened awareness of and reaction to profound economic inequality and the systemic injustice in which it is rooted, it could be that the …

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Friday, May 15, 2020

Buy A Painting By This Dog And Get Free Weed by Artsjournal1

In D.C., you see, it is legal to possess marijuana but not to sell it; there is, however, no law against giving it away. So the enterprising proprietors of District Derp gallery got the idea…

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Francophone African Authors Are Finally Getting Their Work Published Within Africa by Artsjournal1

For decades, most authors writing in French in Africa have had to publish their books in France, partly because of a lack of publishing infrastructure at home and partly because French compa…

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A Book Festival For The Epidemic Era, Live From Africa by Artsjournal1

"Afrolit Sans Frontières, a series of hourlong readings and question-and-answer sessions held entirely on Facebook and Instagram, kicked off on March 23 and [is recurring monthly]. In the f…

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Gabriel Bacquier, France's Greatest Baritone Of The Postwar Era, Dead At 95 by Artsjournal1

In addition to his triumphs in Europe, he was one of the few French singers of his time to have a big career in the U.S., notably in Chicago and Philadelphia and at the Met, where he sang fo…

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What Are The Possibilities Of Socially Distanced Performance? We've Been Seeing Some Of Them For Years by Artsjournal1

Justin Davidson: "There is a cohort of artists and presenters who, long before the great contagion, were already rethinking the physical relationships between performers, audience, and space…

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Morton Feldman's Music Is Just The Thing For Quarantine by Artsjournal1

By the time new Washington Post classical critic Michael Andor Brodeur confesses that he used to listen to Feldman at the supermarket and when stuck in traffic, you might think he's not impa…

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Why The Pandemic Has Seen Shakespeare Popping Up Everywhere Online by Artsjournal1

Alexis Soloski: "The glut of new content speaks to the reach and ubiquity of his work, the open-source accessibility of his plays, the confidence that if you do share a snippet of pentameter…

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This 222-Year-Old Poem Really Captures The Spirit Of 2020 (And Not Just Because Of COVID) by Artsjournal1

"Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,' first published in 1798, is … the dream-poem of right now." It's currently appearing on YouTube in short daily installments re…

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Facebook's New Content Oversight Board Could End Up Overseeing A Lot More Than Facebook by Artsjournal1

"In designing this new organization, Facebook's leaders … formed a separate legal trust with an initial $130 million investment from Facebook. But they also empowered that trust to both ac…

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'The New Facebook Review Board Will Have No Influence Over Anything That Really Matters In The World': Siva Vaidhyanathan by Artsjournal1

"It will hear only individual appeals about specific content that the company has removed from the service " and only a fraction of those appeals. The board can't say anything about the toxi…

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Coronavirus Or No, Demolition And Construction At L.A. Museums Goes On by Artsjournal1

"In California, all construction " including museum expansions " has been categorized as essential. While much of the art world is standing still, expansions at LACMA, the Hammer, and other …

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A New Kind Of Corona-Concert: Ten Minutes, One Musician, One Listener, One Empty Airport by Artsjournal1

Flutist Stephanie Winker has been organizing these very intimate events at the airport and in other locations around Stuttgart " inspired, she says, by The Artist Is Present, the project in …

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The Satellite Company That Helps Transmit Everything To Everyone Has Just Gone Bankrupt by Artsjournal1

"Set up in the 1960s via international treaty, Intelsat SA has played a critical and often-overlooked role providing connectivity infrastructure for more than a half century so that humanity…

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Thursday, May 14, 2020

Kinetic Art Pioneer Abraham Palatnik Dead Of COVID At 92 by Artsjournal1

"Most often associated with the Grupo Frente movement of the 1950s and '60s, Palatnik was among the first Brazilian artists to take up a style called Concretism, which envisioned formalist g…

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The Case Of The Revered Scholar, The Chain-Store Mogul, And The Stolen Papyri by Artsjournal1

Dirk Obbink was perhaps the world's most admired expert in Greek-language papyrus fragments from the early centuries of the Christian era " which is why he was recruited by Hobby Lobby presi…

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First Guidelines For How Full Orchestras Can Perform Under Social Distancing Rules by Artsjournal1

"Scientists at the Charité in Berlin have issued a 13-page paper, at the request of seven Berlin orchestras [including the Philharmonic and the Staatskapelle], advising the distances to be …

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AI Is Already Changing How Big Movies Are Made by Artsjournal1

Here's how studios are currently using artificial intelligence to manage operations and workflow, editing, analysis of finances and moviegoer preferences, and "digital humans." What's more, …

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AT&T's $4 Billion Gamble On HBO Max by Artsjournal1

"The investment is the biggest bet to date made by AT&T to realize the promise of its $85.4 billion acquisition of Time Warner. … The hope is that HBO Max is built up over the next few…

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John Macurdy, Who Sang 1,001 Performances At Met Opera, Dead At 91 by Artsjournal1

"While he did take star turns, his many 'comprimario' roles, as opera's supporting roles are known, increased his performance total to sixth among basses in Met history. He sang 62 roles wit…

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America's First Subsidized Artists' Housing Complex Turns 50 by Artsjournal1

"Many of the community's original tenants remain, and with rents for a live-work studio in the building maxing at about $1,200 per month " $1,900 less than the median rent for a studio in th…

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Can Slapstick Comedy Work On Zoom? Bill Irwin's About To Find Out by Artsjournal1

"'Oh, I hope it holds together,' he fretted the other morning, between rewrites and rehearsals of In-Zoom, his new 10-minute play. Performed by Irwin in New York and Christopher Fitzgerald, …

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Opening Of Berlin's Humboldt Forum Postponed For The Umpteenth Time by Artsjournal1

As if the cost overruns, scheduling snafus and controversy over its holdings weren't enough (not to mention last month's tar fire), the opening of the city's $700 million ethnographic museum…

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MoMA Gets Involved In Effort To Save Oslo's Picasso Murals by Artsjournal1

Two concrete murals, designed by Picasso and sandblasted onto the walls by a Norwegian colleague, are part of a government building that was damaged by Anders Breivik's car bomb in 2011. For…

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L.A. Phil Cancels Hollywood Bowl Season, Furloughs And Layoffs Follow by Artsjournal1

"The summer closure " the first in Bowl history " following the spring closure of Walt Disney Concert Hall has triggered the furloughing of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra (65 musicians and sta…

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Wednesday, May 13, 2020

Santa Claus, Musical Patriotism, And The New York Philharmonic: The Great Critical Kerfuffle Of 1853-54 by Artsjournal1

America's oldest orchestra had the development and promotion of American music as part of its founding mission. Yet, in its first 11 seasons, it played two American works, both composed by i…

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Philanthropists Are Trying To Take The Baltimore Sun Non-Profit by Artsjournal1

"The Baltimore Sun is owned by Tribune Publishing. Alden Global Capital, a New York-based hedge fund infamous for purchasing, then gutting, newspapers across the US, owns a 32% stake in Trib…

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Do We Need To Change The Way We Depict Mental Illness In Dance? (Perhaps Not) by Artsjournal1

Kathleen McGuire: "The portrayals of distress can feel clichéd " Lady Capulet writhing on the floor, or, in Cathy Marston's Jane Eyre, the animalistic woman in the attic or the corps of men…

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