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Wednesday, March 18, 2020

Denver Arts Funder Offers Money To Its Grantees To Help With COVID Effects by Artsjournal

Bonfils-Stanton Foundation: "These Denver-based organizations offer ongoing public arts & culture programming and are at risk for earned revenue loss due to the COVID-19 global pandemic.…

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Universal Says It Will Make Its Current-Release Movies Available By Streaming by Artsjournal

The company will also make movies that are currently in theatrical release available on-demand beginning as early as Friday, starting with the Elisabeth Moss horror film "The Invisible Man,"…

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Is This The End Of The Movie Theatre Business? by Artsjournal

After many weeks of self-quarantining and social distancing, will people be eager to rub shoulders again when restrictions are lifted? And what will happen to the release calendar, with so m…

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British Public Discover Treasure With Metal Detectors by Artsjournal

The British Museum on Tuesday announced that 1,311 finds which are defined as treasure had been found by members of the public across England, Wales and Northern Ireland in 2019. They also i…

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Home Because Of COVID? In Praise Of Boredom by Artsjournal

Charles McNulty: "I'm sure I'm not the only writer who fantasizes about retreating to a country house with nothing to do but curl up by a fire beside a mountain of Dickens and Dostoevsky. Bu…

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The Role Of Plagues In Ancient Greek Stories " Tests Of Leadership by Artsjournal

Plagues functioned as a setup for an even more crucial theme in ancient myth: a leader's intelligence. At the beginning of the "Iliad," for instance, the prophet Calchas " who knows the caus…

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What Dance Companies Are Doing As Lockdowns Multiply by Artsjournal

As dance, music and opera companies seek ways to stream performances online; dance teachers hold class and dance parties on Instagram live; university dance programs unveil plans to move cur…

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Italy Debates: Are Physical Newspapers Necessary? The Answer Surprises by Artsjournal

Newsstands are even registering a small bump in sales. That was clear in Milan. In a busier newsstand, near a major shopping street here, I had to wait to pay for the newspaper. And when my …

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Tuesday, March 17, 2020

We Need To Rethink Audience Development by Artsjournal

The reality for most organisations is that their value and survival increasingly demand competence " and coherence " across all audience development. Many next-generation cultural organisati…

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Monday, March 16, 2020

Umberto Eco And A State Of Doubt by Artsjournal

What the library tells you is not that there is that much to read, but that there are no limits as to how much there is to know. The essence of the library is its limitlessness. The more tim…

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The Social Costs Of Shutting Down Getting Together by Artsjournal

The economic fallout of event cancellations is making headlines. However, little attention has been paid to the social costs. Events play an important role in community life and research has…

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The Dazzle Of George Steiner (And The End Of An Era) by Artsjournal

Dazzle was, of course, the very essence of the Steiner sound. The magisterial tone, the cosmopolitan content, the very assumption that the reader was as intimately familiar with the history …

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Are You And Artist And Need Help? by Artsjournal

New York Foundation for the Arts has created a page of resources for artists who have found themselves in difficulty during the virus crisis. " New York Foundation for the Arts

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Naomi Klein: Crises Can Be Opportunities For Systemic Change by Artsjournal

Crises like coronavirus are opportunities as well as threats. Naomi Klein writes that ideas that were heretofore beyond consideration can sometimes become possible " for example no-strings b…

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How Shakespeare Became An American Gold Standard by Artsjournal

The 17th-century puritans who founded the first English settler colonies were "rabidly anti-theatrical", and colonial insurrectionists rejecting the motherland in the 18th century would not …

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Amazon Flooded With Fake COVID Books by Artsjournal

The retailing giant has already been removing "tens of thousands" of listings from "bad actors" attempting to artificially raise prices on items such as face masks and hand sanitiser. Now it…

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London's Proposed Centre For Music Would Be "Tate Modern Of Music" by Artsjournal

"We believe the Centre for Music's potential transformative power for music is equal to that of Tate Modern's impact on the London visual arts scene." The centre will occupy the current Muse…

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Until They Were Shut Down, Chicago's Jazz Clubs Kept Swinging This Weekend by Artsjournal

Until Gov. Pritzker on Sunday ordered all bars and restaurants in the state to shut down at close of business on Monday night through March 30, the jazz clubs kept on swinging " albeit with …

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Friday, March 13, 2020

Egypt's Oldest Pyramid Reopens After 14-Year Closure by Artsjournal

Assembled between 2630 and 2611 B.C. in Saqqara, Egypt, the pyramid, where Djoser and 11 of his daughters were buried upon their deaths, contains roughly 11.6 million cubic feet of stone and…

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Sculptor J. Seward Johnson Jr, 89 by Artsjournal

Johnson, a sculptor who may be responsible for more double takes than anyone in history thanks to his countless lifelike creations in public places " a businessman in downtown Manhattan, sur…

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Does Democratization Of Culture Mean The End Of Audience? by Artsjournal

"My current research situates audience development within work on culture as a vocation, and wider debates around the democratisation of culture and cultural democracy. Audience development …

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Crowds Continued To Fill Disneyland As Warnings Increase by Artsjournal

Aimee and Charlie Cotherman, of Oil City, Pa., said that ahead of their trip to Orlando last week, they were worried about the coronavirus, but decided to still visit with their children, ag…

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Virus Could Cost $5 Billion Worldwide To Live Events Business by Artsjournal

Coronavirus-related event cancellations seem to be barreling in by the hour, and the $26 billion global live events industry is watching with bated breath. Several sources across the booking…

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A High Stress Threat To The Arts by Artsjournal

There will soon be lots of demands for emergency funds, to bail out small businesses, cab drivers, restaurants, and so on. Cultural workers, who contribute so much to urban life in normal ti…

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Needed: A Rethink Of The Digital Millennium Copyright Act And Creativity by Artsjournal

The platforms are under no legal obligation to proactively seek out infringement and remove it, nor " most annoyingly of all " do they ever have to permanently remove an infringing wor…

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Modernism And The African American Experience by Artsjournal

Back at the beginning of the 20th century, artists such as Picasso, Braque and Matisse turned to African art for new ideas about how to represent the world, creating figures with masklike fa…

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An Opera That Works To Reinvent The Form by Artsjournal

"We were like, how do we do this so that we don't let the audience off the hook " that this is the land where this happened?" says Yuval Sharon. "Los Angeles State Historic Park feels like a…

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Ex-President's Estate Sues Otis College by Artsjournal

The legal complaint by Bruce Ferguson's sister, who is executor of his estate, alleges that Otis committed discrimination, retaliation and wrongful termination related to Ferguson's illness …

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Thursday, March 12, 2020

Met Museum Hikes Pay For Top Execs by Artsjournal

The highest paid executive in the most recent financial year, according to tax filings, was chief investment officer Lauren Meserve, whose total compensation package was worth $1.6 million, …

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Data: How Movie-going Declined In North America Last Year by Artsjournal

A detailed report released Wednesday by the Motion Picture Association helps to explain why moviegoing dipped in North America last year by 4 percent to $11.4 billion. Two key stats: The num…

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How Dallas Opera Ran Afoul Of Social Media Algorithms by Artsjournal

As much as it sounds like something out of Isaac Asimov, we have to say it: we can't surrender our discernment to the computers. What we need now " what will make our social media feeds and …

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