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Tuesday, April 7, 2020

The Greatest Scam In Canadian Art History by Artsjournal

"[It's] the greatest art scam in Canadian history," says art dealer Don Robinson, who suffered a stroke because of the stress he endured in his campaign against a market awash with forgeries…

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Judge Throws Out Musicians' Lawsuit Over 2008 Fire That Destroyed Master Recordings by Artsjournal

Representatives of those artists or their estates sued Universal in June, arguing that the company had been negligent in protecting their tapes and that the company had a duty to share with …

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Leading Thinkers Speculate On What A Post-Virus World Will Look Like by Artsjournal

As it has always been, history will be written by the "victors" of the COVID-19 crisis. Every nation, and increasingly every individual, is experiencing the societal strain of this disease i…

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Violinist Commissions Composers For Online Fragments by Artsjournal

Jennifer Koh got to work on Alone Together, an online performance series for which she hyper-compressed her usual process of discovering composers by asking 21 of them with some level of fin…

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COVID As Social Disease by Artsjournal

COVID is a social disease, a pathological experiment on the nature of our social relations. It is experienced in our social life in four major ways, and our responses bear upon the nature of…

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NY Museums, Collectors Worry About Art Security by Artsjournal

While overall crime in the city fell in March compared with a year earlier, commercial and residential burglaries rose 26% to 942, according to a New York City Police report. The sometimes e…

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Monday, April 6, 2020

The Art World Pre-COVID Is Dead by Artsjournal

Jerry Saltz: "Even an art-lover lifer like me has to admit much of the art world infrastructure feels like it's already in the balance. Some of it may be gone even now. In three months, or s…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:36PM[SHARE]

When Magazines Had Visions Of Changing (And Improving) The World by Artsjournal

In 1895 Ladies' Home Journal began to offer unfrilly, family-friendly architectural plans in its pages. They were mainly colonial, Craftsman, or modern ranch-style houses, and many still sta…

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A Critic Of Big Tech Starts His Own Project To Sort And Rank Information by Artsjournal

Essentially, it's a site that recommends the very best and most relevant books, podcasts, scientific articles, videos and journalism to anyone who wants a better understanding of the world. …

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How To Suspend Live Events Without Wrecking The Human Talent? by Artsjournal

Live events and entertainment are people-based businesses that rely on the creation of emotional experiences and human interactions. Shedding too many employees, or the wrong employees, may …

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Is Spatial Awareness Our Superpower? by Artsjournal

In the age of GPS, we tend to take our navigation and spatial abilities for granted, until they " or the technology " let us down. It is easy to forget that they have sustained us for tens o…

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Hungarian Strongman Uses Virus Emergency To Seize Control Of Museums, Theatres by Artsjournal

As the undemocratic features of the Orbán regime became increasingly obvious, the cunning liberal directors would choose productions that, with even minimum sensibility, could be interpre…

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The Netherlands Has Had A Rash Of Van Gogh Thefts In Recent Years by Artsjournal

The fact that all 28 Van Gogh paintings, from six separate thefts, were eventually recovered should offer hope that The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring will eventually return to its hom…

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As Schools Move Online, Less Than Half Of Their Students Log In by Artsjournal

The absence rate appears particularly high in schools with many low-income students, whose access to home computers and internet connections can be spotty. Some teachers report that less tha…

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How Epidemics Of The Past Drove Innovation by Artsjournal

As we are seeing with the coronavirus today, disease can profoundly impact a community"upending routines and rattling nerves as it spreads from person to person. But the effects of epidemics…

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Friday, April 3, 2020

Chiura Obata's Career Was Interrupted By Internment During WWII. Now A Retrospective Of His Work Has Been Stilled By The Virus by Artsjournal

"Suddenly he was in a drab, dehumanizing place, first a stable in California, then the barracks of Topaz, Utah, where he spent most of his time in internment. It was bleak, hot, arid and dus…

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How Podcasting Is Changing by Artsjournal

The podcasting business is changing at the speed of sound. There's a pivot toward profit. And while that's great in the short run for public podcasting, it also attracts new players and an a…

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Arts Freelancers Are At Particular Risk Right Now by Artsjournal

Everyone includes musicians, visual artists, designers, dancers and other freelancers who are part of Washington's vibrant arts economy. They are musicians with no tour dates. Art handlers w…

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SXSW Will Put Its Film Festival Online Streaming For Ten Days by Artsjournal

SXSW announced Thursday that it's partnering with Amazon Prime Video to stream as much of its movie line-up as possible for a 10-day period in the U.S. It will be free to viewers with or wit…

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Inside This Season's Most Controversial Book " The Woody Allen Memoir by Artsjournal

I spoke to several industry professionals; almost all were reluctant to play Monday morning quarterback without the promise of anonymity"if you're making a book deal in secret, perhaps it's …

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Comic Books Industry Grinds To Halt For The First Time Ever by Artsjournal

Comics are largely sold through the direct market, moving from publisher to distributor to specialty comics retailers, as opposed to digital distribution or the newstands of yesteryear. But …

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How Dance Helps Me Think And Thinking Helps Me Dance by Artsjournal

For most of my career, dancing and academic research were two separate but equally weighted spheres. However, over the years, I have become more and more aware that many people viewed dance …

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Why AI Can't Predict The Value Of Art by Artsjournal

To bring real value, any A.I. application needs loads of quality data"which is doubly problematic in our small and notoriously opaque industry (dealers l-o-v-e to hoard sales info). Without …

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Bill Withers, 81 by Artsjournal

Withers broke out nationally with "Ain't No Sunshine," which he also wrote and reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1971. Fueled by a melancholic groove and soulful vocal, it won the Gr…

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Simon Woods Chosen As League Of American Orchestras Next Leader by Artsjournal

Mr. Woods's previous position ended just as the Los Angeles Philharmonic's season was about to begin last year. After building a reputation for innovation during his run as president of the …

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Thursday, April 2, 2020

How LACMA's New Building Became A Referendum On Museums by Artsjournal

How did this building, initially embraced as promising, if not visionary, come to ignite a scorched-earth debate in its final stages? The story of LACMA's campus reconstruction"and the curre…

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This Is A Transition From One Era To Another by Artsjournal

The era of peak globalisation is over. An economic system that relied on worldwide production and long supply chains is morphing into one that will be less interconnected. A way of life driv…

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How To Maintain (Or Renew) Your Relationship With Shakespeare: Read Him by Artsjournal

It's certainly true that people have been reading Shakespeare's plays for almost as long as they have been watching them. Within two or three years of his first, collaborative efforts on the…

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Bookstores Had Staged Something Of A Comeback. And Now This by Artsjournal

In a 2016 study, the median small business had enough cash to last just 27 days, while a 2018 survey found that 21 percent would fail after a month without cash flow. Bookstores run on even …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:32PM[SHARE]

There's Going To Still Be Theatre. But What Will It Be? by Artsjournal

Said Chay Yew, "We've always complained about how the American theatre doesn't work. I for one find the blank slate exciting. We either repeat what we did before or we don't. The structure w…

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Can Looking At Art Online Beat The In-Person Experience? by Artsjournal

"It's definitely less trouble. You can stroll around the masterpieces at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, while seated at home in front of your laptop. Naturally, it's far less crowded that way t…

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