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Tuesday, May 5, 2020

How The COVID Crisis Is Changing Classical Music Performance (No, It's Not About Zoom) by Artsjournal1

Musicians and their audiences may be physically separated these days, but they're closer emotionally, writes David Patrick Stearns. "The old sense of 'us' and 'them' " each side with its res…

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How's Canada's Arts Sector Holding Up Through The COVID Crisis? Better Than In The States by Artsjournal1

Things are far from perfect north of the border, but overall Canadian artists and organizations say they feel relatively well taken care of, especially when they look south. Kate Brown repor…

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Disney Company's Massive Size Was Always A Strength " Until The Pandemic Hit by Artsjournal1

"After a decade of spectacular growth, the entertainment conglomerate has been devastated by the coronavirus pandemic. Its 14 theme parks (annual attendance: 157 million) delivered record pr…

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Lessons On Solitude From An Author Who's Not Thoreau by Artsjournal1

"In Rousseau's scheme of things, solitude was the natural human state. By stepping outside of society, by distancing oneself from other voices, one was facilitating a return to oneself. But …

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Mezzo Rosalind Elias Dead At 90 by Artsjournal1

She made her Metropolitan Opera debut at age 23 and sang 54 roles there over 42 years, becoming one of the most beloved singers within the company. Perhaps most notable among the many operas…

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One Of Sydney's Major Arts Centers Declares Bankruptcy Due To COVID And The Lockdown by Artsjournal1

Carriageworks, Australia's largest arts center devoted to contemporary work, has entered voluntary administration (as it's called there). A statement from a spokesperson said, "The sudden ca…

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Advice For Dancers Who Fear Their Companies Will Shut Down, From Colleagues Who've Been Through It by Artsjournal1

"Of course, people are doing everything possible to avoid that fate. But fears of folding are, understandably, creating major anxiety right now. To gain some perspective, [we] spoke to a few…

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Colson Whitehead, Jericho Brown, Benjamin Moser, W. Caleb McDaniel, Anne Boyer, Greg Grandin Win Literary Pulitzers by Artsjournal1

Whitehead received his second fiction Pulitzer for The Nickel Boys; Brown's The Tradition took poetry honors; the biography prize went to Moser's Sontag: Her Life and Work; McDaniel's Sweet …

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'The Central Park Five' By Anthony Davis Wins Pulitzer Prize For Music by Artsjournal1

"[The work,] which debuted last June at Long Beach Opera, … chronicles the racially and politically charged New York trial and conviction of one Latino teenager and four black teens " who …

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'A Strange Loop' By Michael R. Jackson Wins Pulitzer Prize For Drama by Artsjournal1

"Jackson's win marks the first time the committee has awarded a black writer for a musical. … That's particularly poignant given the material itself: a discursive meta-tale about a young, …

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Large Hoard Of Fake Antiquities Found And Impounded At Heathrow by Artsjournal1

"A Border Force officer at Heathrow Airport discovered the hundreds of clay figurines, pots, and tablets covered in cuneiform script in a pair of metal trunks last July. Intercepted en route…

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'This American Life' Wins First-Ever Pulitzer For Audio Journalism by Artsjournal1

"In partnership with the Los Angeles Times and Vice News, This American Life won for an episode called 'The Out Crowd' " which illuminated the personal impact of the Trump Administration's '…

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Glyndebourne Opera Festival Bows To The Inevitable, Cancels Remainder Of Summer Season by Artsjournal1

"[Festival management] had previously cancelled all performances up to and including July 14, but the festival was due to continue until August 30. A virtual festival, Glyndebourne Open Hous…

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Sotheby's Reports $71.2m Loss & "Substantial Doubt" About Continuing; Major June Sales Planned by Artsjournal1

Sotheby's new leaders, who took the publicly traded company private, are understandably eager to reopen their New York saleroom for post-pandemic business. Having disclosed a $71.2-million n…

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Monday, May 4, 2020

L.A. Times Art Critic Christopher Knight Wins Pulitzer Prize by Artsjournal1

"The jury said Knight's work demonstrated 'extraordinary community service by a critic' through the application of 'his expertise and enterprise to critique a proposed overhaul of the L.A. C…

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Friday, May 1, 2020

A Lesson in the Art of Drawing: 'Taking the Line for a Walk' by Artsjournal1

The point of the exercise is to wean the young artist off result-oriented copying from photos. 'Taking the line for a walk' lets the drawing come about in the process of drawing. " Jan Herman

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Matthew Shipp's 'Piano Equation' by Artsjournal1

The dictionary defines equation as "the act of making equal." In his engrossing new solo album, pianist Matthew Shipp creates eleven new pieces of music in which the equality of his powerful…

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Even In This Crisis, Museums Selling Their Art Is A Dangerously Slippery Slope by Artsjournal1

Yes, the COVID lockdown has deprived most museums of nearly all their income, which is why the Association of Art Museum Directors has given qualified approval for members to "use the procee…

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Lockdown lessons: 'Singin' in the Rain' by Artsjournal1

We learned a lot of things about Singin' in the Rain during the Lockdown Theatre Club group watch. Here are 20 of them " from dubbing the dubbers to Gene Kelly's buttock-framing trousers. " …

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Acting Classes On Zoom Are Actually Working Out Kind Of Well by Artsjournal1

Reacting to a scene partner's body language and expressions is an integral part of learning how to act. Zoom, clearly, isn't optimal in that department. But … students were finding ways to…

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Is It Feasible To Reopen Cinemas With A Max Of 50 People Per Screen? Norway Is Trying It by Artsjournal1

Movie theaters in Norway will reopen on May 7 with a mandatory minimum of one meter of space between each audience member and no more than 50 patrons total in any one space. (These rules fol…

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What Classic Plague Lit Tells Us About COVID " And About Its Aftermath by Artsjournal1

"The primary lesson of plague literature, from Thucydides onwards, is how predictably humans respond to such crises. Over millennia, there has been a consistent pattern to behaviour during e…

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Idled Professional Dancers Start Making TikTok Videos by Artsjournal1

"Since its release in 2017, TikTok has become a wildly popular global platform for dance, especially among teens, with tools that make it easy to film yourself dancing to music, integrate sp…

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Furloughed Met Opera Musicians Worry About Making It Through The Pandemic Shutdown by Artsjournal1

"The performers … feel abandoned by the Met. … The sense of drift has been compounded by what musicians call a lack of communication and leadership from the Met's management. Music direc…

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Steppenwolf Announces New Online Productions As It Cancels Stage Plays Until October by Artsjournal1

The offerings, open only to subscribers, include a "virtual reading" of a new adaptation of Chekhov's Seagull (available May 14-27); a radio-play version of Arthur Miller's The American Cloc…

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Germano Celant, Curator Who Launched Italy's Arte Povera Movement, Dead Of COVID At 79 by Artsjournal1

"In 1967,[he] wrote a lasting page in art history when, as a 27-year-old curator in Genoa, he mounted an exhibition of five young Italian artists making provisional assemblages of humble mat…

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Beijing Reopens Forbidden City, Museums, Parks by Artsjournal1

"The Forbidden City, past home to China's emperors, is allowing just 5,000 visitors daily, down from 80,000. And parks are allowing people to visit at 30% of the usual capacity. … Large-sc…

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PA Governor Freezes All State Arts Grants For Rest Of Year by Artsjournal1

"Facing his own burgeoning budget problems, Gov. Tom Wolf has directed some state agencies to rescind grant money previously awarded to arts groups. The decision surfaced Monday when numerou…

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Breakfast With Bill by Artsjournal1

When I visited dish-besotted Bill Stern in his apartment in Los Angeles, we would make tea for breakfast in a gray pot designed in the 1960s by Edith Heath. At some aha moment, Bill decided …

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Thank-you note by Artsjournal1

My beloved Hilary died a month ago tonight. I could not begin to thank enough people for saving my life, which is what all of you did by reaching out to me, generously and unhesitatingly. " …

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Covid Obit: William Gerdts, 91, Distinguished Scholar of American Art (& my tipster) by Artsjournal1

He was a renowned expert on American Impressionism and 19th-century American still-life painting as well as author of more than 20 books on American art, notably his three-volume Art Across …

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