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Friday, June 12, 2020

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George Floyd art gathered May 31 " June 11 in Over-the-Rhine and downtown Cincinnati " Margy Waller

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Thursday, June 11, 2020

Modigliani Scholar Sues Guy Wildenstein's Nonprofit For Holding His Research 'Hostage' by Artsjournal1

"[Marc] Restellini's lawsuit against the institute asserts that it is in possession of roughly 89 boxes and various other containers of research materials that he had amassed over the years …

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Let's Stop Defining Artemisia Gentileschi As The Rape-Victim Painter by Artsjournal1

"Indexing Gentileschi's oeuvre back to the rape and trial reinscribes the painter as an adolescent sex object, rather than an eminent adult artist with a 40-year career across major European…

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Even 'Paw Patrol' Is Getting Slammed For Depicting Cops As Too Benign by Artsjournal1

Amanda Hess: "It's a joke, but it's also not. As the protests against racist police violence enter their third week, the charges are mounting against fictional cops, too. Even big-hearted ca…

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Some Dance Companies Are Moving Beyond Online Classes Into Zoom Rehearsals by Artsjournal1

"Ballet companies are in a bizarre holding pattern right now. With studios and theaters shut down indefinitely due to the coronavirus pandemic, how do they keep the repertoire alive and danc…

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Poetry Foundation Leadership Resigns Following Demands And Criticism by Artsjournal1

Just a few days after a letter, written by 30 prominent poets and now co-signed by roughly 2,100 people, called for the resignation of the $250 million foundation's president and board chair…

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Banksy's Bataclan Mural, Stolen From Paris, Found In Italian Farmhouse by Artsjournal1

The memorial to the victims of the 2015 terrorist attack at the Paris rock club was painted at the venue in 2018 and was stolen by thieves using angle grinders the following year. French and…

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Here's Who Will Be Hurt If Philadelphia Eliminates All City Arts Funding by Artsjournal1

"The vast majority of the 349 recipient groups from the 2020 fiscal year are small, their audiences mostly neighborhood audiences who often see themselves reflected on the stages or in the g…

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'The Simpsons' Wins Peabody Awards' Top Honor by Artsjournal1

The long-running cartoon series was given the Peabodys' Institutional Award along with (less of a surprise here) the PBS documentary series Frontline, while actor Cicely Tyson, 95, receives …

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After A Century Of History, Audio Drama Is Thriving Again by Artsjournal1

"Just as the coronavirus crisis has stimulated a surge of digital theatre on our screens, it has also sparked a wave of theatre via our headphones, the latest, unexpected development in an a…

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Live Video Theatre: What It Is, What It Is Not by Artsjournal1

Peter J. Kuo of ACT: "With the ability to gather in person on freeze, many of us in the theatre industry collectively held our breaths, waiting to exhale. Now, we find ourselves gasping for …

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Vienna Philharmonic Back In Concert Hall For First Time Since Pandemic by Artsjournal1

"[The orchestra's] 2,854-seat Musikverein, considered by many the world's most beautiful concert hall, was filled with only 100 people Friday for the first of three days of programs with Dan…

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Jazz Saxophonist Don Weller Dead At 79 by Artsjournal1

"A world-class saxophonist with a big sound, a big presence and a capricious improviser's imagination, [he] sometimes seemed more at home playing pub gigs in his Croydon birthplace than chas…

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When to Stop? My essay in "A Moment on the Clock of the World" in the context of Covid-19 & Black Lives Matter by Artsjournal1

My essay, "To What End Permanence?," seeks to get beyond the question of economic solvency to examine other signs that it may be time to shut a thing down and other motivations for closing. …

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Back to the '60s (again): Ex-Whitney Trustee Warren Kanders' Dow Chemical Moment by Artsjournal1

After initially resisting the resisters' demands that it halt its production of napalm, Dow stopped making it in 1969. Now Warren Kanders, who resigned under political pressure last July fro…

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Wednesday, June 10, 2020

Sure, Online Opera's Nice, But There's Real Magic Inside An Opera House by Artsjournal1

"The limitations of relaying opera from stage to online are subtle. It's the difference between an experience that's mesmerizing and one that's merely impressive." David Patrick Stearns cons…

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Recreating The Musical Instruments Of Ancient Mexico's Lost Metropolis by Artsjournal1

Teotihuacán, which had a population of around 100,000 at its height circa 500 CE, seems to have had no system of writing and left behind no known written records. But musical instruments …

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Bradley Fields, Who Used Magic To Teach Math, Dead Of COVID At 68 by Artsjournal1

"[He] was 'an antique guy in a modern world,' appearing in a derby and vest and performing illusions from the vaudeville era: classic tricks with steel rings or handkerchief, dividing an ass…

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Annenberg Space For Photography In L.A. Closes For Good As Funders Pivot To Pandemic Recovery by Artsjournal1

The museum, one of Southern California's leading venues for photo exhibitions, had been closed for three months because of the coronavirus lockdown and was unsure when, and under what rules,…

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AMC Says It Will Reopen Its Cinemas Worldwide In July. Here's Why It Needs To. by Artsjournal1

Affirming warnings it gave last week, the world's largest movie theater chain reported that it lost $2.2 billion in the first quarter of 2020, a period that saw the beginning of the coronavi…

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London's First Purpose-Built Theatre Found In East End by Artsjournal1

"The Red Lion is thought to have been built around 1567 and probably played host to travelling groups of players. … Archaeologists are as certain as they can be that they have found its re…

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Poets Threaten Boycott Of Poetry Foundation Over Response To Antiracism Protests by Artsjournal1

"More than 1,800 people have signed on to an open letter criticizing the Poetry Foundation's response to the protests sweeping the United States, pledging not to work with the organization u…

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Dancing In The Streets For George Floyd And Racial Justice by Artsjournal1

The Electric Slide in Harlem and the Cupid Shuffle in Newark; the bomba in Puerto Rico and voguing in Chicago; Ojibwe and Nuhua dances in Minneapolis and haka in New Zealand " those are just…

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How Frontline Booksellers Have Been Facing The Pandemic by Artsjournal1

"Frontline booksellers are the first people customers see when they set foot in bookstores across America. They also do physically demanding work, from carrying heavy boxes to shelving thous…

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Pandemic Could Wipe Out More Than Half Of UK Performance Venues by Artsjournal1

"Half of all music venues and 70% of theatres across the UK face permanent closure as a result of the coronavirus crisis, industry leaders have told a committee of MPs." Testified one exec, …

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There Is No "Try" by Artsjournal1

Long ago Barry Hessenius charged us to move from thinking of the pursuit of equity as a "issue" to making it an obsession. So, if "doing" is where we go now, what does the doing look like? "…

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Tuesday, June 9, 2020

Longest-Working Comics Artist In History, Mad Magazine's Al Jaffee, Is Retiring At 99 by Artsjournal1

"To mark his farewell, Mad's 'Usual Gang of Idiots' will salute Jaffee with a tribute issue next week. It will be the magazine's final regular issue to offer new material, including Jaffee's…

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Major Houston Art Dealer And Philanthropist Meredith J. Long Dead At 91 by Artsjournal1

"Long was the right man at the right time in 1957, when he came to Houston to establish Meredith Long & Co. With less than a million residents then, the city had two art museums, three g…

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Another Knotty COVID Mess The Art World Has To Untangle: Exhibition Planning by Artsjournal1

"Museum exhibitions take an exceptional amount of planning " from curatorial conception to filling out loan forms and insurance, to shipping, hanging, and displaying works. Getting a show on…

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Classical Music In The UK Is In Mortal Danger. Why Aren't People With Clout There Publicly Fighting For It? by Artsjournal1

As the novel coronavirus spread, the machinery of live classical performance ground to a halt months ago, putting thousands out of work; the industry will be one of the last to return to ful…

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How American Movies Strenuously Avoided The Issue Of Racist Policing by Artsjournal1

"The entertainment industry has generally followed the official line: blithe ignorance and denial giving way to grudging admission of a problem, but only as far as the 'bad apple' theory. An…

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