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The Harvard Professor Who Turned Distance Learning Into A High Art

IDEAS Posted: July 23, 2020 1:32 pm

For many professors, the sudden transition was a struggle. For Malan, it was the natural extension of a decade’s worth of experimentation. “Our team is fortunate to have been doing this blend of education for quite some time,” he told me recently. “For us, it was very straightforward.” – The New Yorker

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All Those Anti-Racism Books Are Not Going To Fix Things

WORDS Posted: July 23, 2020 10:04 am

Saida Grundy: “While the crafters of anti-racist reading lists are mostly making an earnest effort to educate people, literature and dialogue cannot supplant restorative social policies and laws, organizational change, and structural redress. When offered in lieu of actionable policies regarding equity, consciousness raising can actually undermine Black progress by presenting increased knowledge as the balm for centuries of abuse.” – The Atlantic

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Annie Ross, Star Of ‘The Greatest Jazz Vocal Group That Ever Was,’ Dead At 89

PEOPLE Posted: July 23, 2020 9:02 am

A child star who was once dubbed “the Scottish Shirley Temple,” she “grew up to become one of the most dynamic jazz artists of her generation, writing lyrics and electrifying audiences with her daring, high-speed singing as part of Lambert, Hendricks and Ross.” Later in life, she had a brief movie career and then returned to singing; in between, she led “an often-troubled personal life, which included heroin addiction and a tumultuous relationship with taboo-breaking comedian Lenny Bruce.” – The Washington Post

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Some Of Hagia Sophia’s Mosaics Will Be Covered During Muslim Prayers

VISUAL Posted: July 23, 2020 8:01 am

So far, at least, this isn’t as bad as many people had feared. A presidential spokesman, talking about plans to turn the historic Istanbul monument back into a mosque, said that Christian images that Muslim worshipers would face during prayers (i.e., toward Mecca) would be hidden at those times and uncovered when Hagia Sophia is open to visitors. He added that mosaics and paintings in other parts of the building would pose no problem. – Artnet

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Flexible Work Should Be Liberating. So Why Isn’t It?

IDEAS Posted: July 22, 2020 1:32 pm

The abrupt restructuring of daily working life for tens of millions due to the COVID-19 pandemic has also dramatised just how different ‘flexible’ work is in different contexts: liberating for some, imprisoning for others. – Aeon

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Virtual Theatre Is Changing The Notion Of Theatre

AUDIENCE, THEATRE Posted: July 22, 2020 1:01 pm

Given social-distancing protocols that prohibit physical gatherings, theatre makers have responded creatively to the COVID-19 pandemic by turning to online, digital and lo-fi or “non-embodied” modes of performance that use radio and phone. This change in how to perform theatre has required a reconsideration of longstanding ideas of what it means to be a theatre audience member: How has access to theatre changed? What etiquette is expected? How have ideas of privacy and intimacy shifted? – The Conversation

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Aristotle Defended Slavery and thought Women Were Inferior. Cancel Him?

IDEAS Posted: July 22, 2020 12:28 pm

If cancellation is removal from a position of prominence on the basis of an ideological crime, it might appear that there is a case to be made for canceling Aristotle. He has much prominence: Thousands of years after his death, his ethical works continue to be taught as part of the basic philosophy curriculum offered in colleges and universities around the world. – The New York Times

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Bondil Ordeal: Another Face Off Between a Prominent Museum Official & Staff

AJBlogs Posted: July 22, 2020 11:55 am

True to her outspoken nature, Nathalie Bondil, the summarily sacked 13-year director of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, is not going quietly. Having gotten a taste of her feistiness and grit during a meeting we had three years ago in New York, I’m not surprised. – Lee Rosenbaum

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Hollywood Releases Its Movies In US First. Rest Of The World Is Waiting As Its Theatres Reopen

MEDIA Posted: July 22, 2020 11:32 am

Reasons for synchronising release dates globally, such as minimising piracy and coordinating marketing, hardly seem like priorities given present circumstances. The US is still the largest single cinema market, but in 2018 it made up just 27% of the global box office. The longer the “America-first” principle remains, the worse things get for everyone: cinemas and related businesses, Hollywood itself and moviegoers – whose expectations for Tenet are now so sky-high, the movie will have to singlehandedly cure the coronavirus to live up to the hype. – The Guardian

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Sales of Books In UK Hit Record In 2019. This Year? Not So Much

WORDS Posted: July 22, 2020 10:32 am

The growth in nonfiction stands in contrast to fiction. Despite the publication of highly anticipated novels such as Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments, sales fell to £582m in 2019, down 5.6% when compared with 2015. – The Guardian

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How Yayoi Kusama Became A Global Industry

VISUAL Posted: July 22, 2020 10:04 am

“Kusama’s enormous popularity stems not just from the transformative experience of her photogenic art or its digital reach, but from her compelling personal narrative as well [as her] cultural brand as Pop Art’s eccentric auntie. … But it is also the result of a supporting structure that brings together [psychiatric] hospital, studio, fabricators, and galleries to surround her like an exoskeleton.” – ARTnews

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John Williams at 88

PEOPLE Posted: July 22, 2020 9:31 am

“Williams is a courtly, soft-voiced, inveterately self-effacing man of eighty-eight. He is well aware of the extraordinary worldwide impact of his “Star Wars” music—not to mention his scores for “Jaws,” “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” “E.T.,” the “Indiana Jones” movies, the “Harry Potter” movies, the “Jurassic Park” movies, and dozens of other blockbusters—but he makes no extravagant claims for his music, even if he allows that some of it could be considered “quite good.” – The New Yorker

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BalletX Is Turning Its Next Season Into A Film Festival

DANCE Posted: July 22, 2020 7:35 am

The plan just announced by artistic director Christine Cox is for “a new series launching Sept. 10 celebrating the company’s 15th anniversary with world premieres by 15 choreographers. She sees the season in terms of a subscription-based film festival with nine shorts and six features. The shorts will be dance films presented on a new virtual platform hosted on the company’s website called BalletX Beyond. The features are intended to be performed live in the spring or summer, depending on public health concerns, but they, too, may be turned into films, if necessary.” – The Philadelphia Inquirer

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Cord-Cutting Really Is Starting To Strangle Cable TV. So What Are The Cable Networks Doing?

AUDIENCE, MEDIA Posted: July 22, 2020 7:02 am

“The decline of cable isn’t a new story, but what has started to take hold is a change in narrative inside the industry. Rather than try to prop up what they all know to be a decaying linear business, cable executives are instead focusing on their still-healthy intellectual properties and the brands behind them. Some of those cable brands are even aiming to carve out a space in the streaming world.” – Variety

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Arts Center In Sydney Is Saved From Liquidation — But At The Expense Of Some Artists

ISSUES Posted: July 22, 2020 5:05 am

“Carriageworks has a clear path towards recovery after creditors voted unopposed on Tuesday for a proposal to rescue the arts company with the support of philanthropists and the New South Wales government, but not everyone is happy with the deal.” The problem: many of those creditors are small arts organizations and individual artists, who may get only about a third of the fees owed them. – The Guardian

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NPR’s Broken Business Model

MEDIA Posted: July 21, 2020 9:32 am

For decades, the P in NPR stood for “public,” as in publicly supported, noncommercial radio and digital news. Yet with its growing dependence on corporate advertising, NPR has found itself on equally troubled footing as its for-profit competitors, all of them reliant on the same pool of advertising dollars that have dried up during the coronavirus pandemic. – Washington Post

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  • Lookback: “Call me Bartleby”
    From 2006: I woke up this morning at nine-thirty, an hour later than my normal get-up-and-go time. As I descended from the loft in which I spend my nights, it struck me that I had nothing whatsoever to do today: no deadlines, no shows to see, no meals with friends,... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-01-19
  • Almanac: Thomas Fuller on memory
    “We have all forgot more than we remember.” Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia Continue reading Almanac: Thomas Fuller on memory at About Last Night.... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-01-19
  • Just because: Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli plays Ravel
    Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli plays the slow movement of Ravel’s G Major Piano Concerto, accompanied by Sergiu Celidibache and the London Symphony:  (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday) Continue reading Just because: Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-01-18
  • Almanac: Jean Anouilh on beauty
    “Things are beautiful if you love them.” Jean Anouilh, Mademoiselle Colombe (trans. Louis Kronenberger) Continue reading Almanac: Jean Anouilh on beauty at About Last Night.... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-01-18
  • Trey Devey share his passion for Arts Education
    “If we are empowered with creativity, with collaboration, with all of the skills that come from practicing the arts… that will lead to the breakthrough ideas.” Trey Devey, President of the Interlochen Center for the Arts, speaks to the power of arts education.... Read more
    Source: Aaron Dworkin Published on: 2021-01-16
  • The pandemic process
    A new episode of Three on the Aisle, the podcast in which Peter Marks, Elisabeth Vincentelli, and I talk about theater in America, is now available on line for listening or downloading. Here’s American Theatre’s “official” summary of the proceedings:  This month, as the scale of the economic devastation facing arts professionals continues to... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-01-15
  • Classics for free
    In today’s Wall Street Journal drama column, I review two theatrical webcasts drawn from important New York productions of the past by the Hunter Theater Project and Shakespeare in the Park. Here’s an excerpt. *  *  * Sometimes you have to dig to find the best theatrical webcasts, while others are hiding... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-01-15
  • Replay: Laurence Olivier in Uncle Vanya
    A scene from the 1963 film of Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya,” directed by Laurence Olivier and starring Olivier, Rosemary Harris, and Michael Redgrave: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday) Continue reading Replay: Laurence Olivier in... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-01-15
  • Almanac: Chekhov on friendship between men and women
    “A woman can be a man’s friend only in this sequence: first an acquaintance, then a mistress, and after that a friend.” Anton Chekhov, Uncle Vanya Continue reading Almanac: Chekhov on friendship between men and women at About Last Night.... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-01-15
  • Capitol Offense: Metropolitan Museum Blasts “Domestic Terrorism” by “Treasonous Rioters”
    Throwing caution to the winds, the Metropolitan Museum today went beyond the more measured words of a few other museums in its angry call to “bring to justice those responsible” for the “criminal actions” at the Capitol on Jan. 6. The Met’s official Statement on Capitol Desecration, signed by Daniel... Read more
    Source: CultureGrrl Published on: 2021-01-14
  • Matthew Loden discusses the mission of orchestras
    “There’s a fundamental mission drive and, in many instances, I think a moral imperative to actually do what we’re doing for as many people as possible and to do it intelligently and in a way that is actually going to bring some kind of either musical relief or solace.” Matthew... Read more
    Source: Aaron Dworkin Published on: 2021-01-14
  • Let’s Talk About Literary Exposure
    Some would call it visibility. If you’re talking books, how about millions upon millions of Youtube views for a reading from Supervert’s "Necrophilia Variations.' A dozen years ago when that video had two million views, I called it “viral reading.” Three years later, on Dec. 30, 2015, the video had... Read more
    Source: Straight|Up Published on: 2021-01-14
  • Almanac: Will and Ariel Durant on revolution
    “The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionaries are philosophers and saints.” Will and Ariel Durant, The Lessons of History Continue reading Almanac: Will and Ariel Durant on revolution at About Last... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-01-14
  • Snapshot: James Earl Jones in Fences
    James Earl Jones appears in a scene from the original Broadway production of August Wilson’s Fences, performed on the 1987 Tony Awards telecast: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday) Continue reading Snapshot: James Earl Jones... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-01-13
  • Connect
    The viability of our industry depends upon developing relationships–making connections–with many new communities. The bases for success are respect and humility.... Read more
    Source: Engaging Matters Published on: 2021-01-12
  • Jim Haynes, RIP
    Brad Spurgeon memorializes him: "End of an Era, but not of a Philosophy of Life." I never met Jim. But he was extraordinarily welcoming when we corresponded by email about the strange case of Orwell's typewriter.... Read more
    Source: Straight|Up Published on: 2021-01-12
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