This is especially true at (now-online) universities, reports Emma Pettit, for students and professors alike. And as professors find themselves unable to focus on the reading they need to do for their research, they’re becoming more understanding of their students’ difficulties — and their requests to ditch the textbooks for the rest of the semester. – The Chronicle of Higher Education
Author: Matthew Westphal
More Regional, Less Global, Fewer Massive Fairs: The Art Market Post-COVID
Tim Schneider: “An art market justifiably paranoid about frequent international travel is an art market incentivized to fracture into regional and local interests. Short distances won’t just be advantageous on the other side of this mess because of convenience. They’ll also appeal because of the greater protection they afford. It’s the same calculus driving distributors in so many other industries to consider restructuring from largely global supply chains to ones centered closer to their actual end consumers.” – Artnet
New York City Ballet Announces A Virtual Spring Season
“Less than a month after canceling its spring season because of the coronavirus pandemic, New York City Ballet is back with a six-week slate of online programming. The company announced on Monday that it would broadcast full ballets and excerpts twice a week, from Tuesday through May 29, for free on its YouTube channel, Facebook page and website.” – The New York Times
Kenneth Gilbert, Harpsichordist And Scholar, Dead At 88
In addition to performing and recording a great deal of early keyboard repertoire, he prepared and published a new edition of Domenico Scarlatti’s 555 sonatas, became the first North American given a full professorship at the Paris Conservatoire, and taught many of the leading harpsichordists and early music conductors working today. – Gramophone
Everything Pina
Pina Bausch’s work has been a delight and compulsion throughout my theatregoing lifetime. I’ve seen every piece I can, several of them more than once. And it turns out I’ve written quite a bit about her work, so have collected some of it here. – David Jays
Juice, Tomato
Of course, I had to grow, pluck my own and juice them. I even bit one on the vine like an animal — I am an animal — and sucked and chewed, thinking of another writer who acted on the same impulse before I was born, though with a different lure. – Jeff Weinstein
Revered jazz elders, deceased: portraits by Sánta István Csaba
As a generation of jazz elders leaves our world — some hastened by the pandemic — their faces as photographed by Sánta István Csaba become even more luminous, haunting, iconic. – Howard Mandel
Art? Or ‘A Pre-Raphaelite Wet T-Shirt Competition’? ArtActivistBarbie Hits The Museums And Calls Out The Male Gaze
“Posing in her most glamorous handmade outfits, ArtActivistBarbie has been calling into question the representation of women on gallery walls” — the blonde doll is photographed in front of an artwork, generally one of a nude or topless woman such as Charles Mengin’s Sappho (1877), holding a sign saying, for instance, “Yet another painting where the male gaze is legitimised by fine painting & brushwork & a scholarly reference to Classical history.” – The Guardian
A New York Times And Guardian Critic Tries Out ‘Remote Immersive Theater’ At Home
Alexis Soloski got texts from Romeo (who’s a bit of a jerk), helped someone held hostage in Venezuela undo handcuffs, failed to help a pilot land a 747, told an inspector for the Misplaced Keepsakes Division about her long-lost Piaget watch, and (“because I am a terrible props mistress”) scalded herself while attempting Play in a Bathtub. – The New York Times
New York’s Public Theater Cancels Shakespeare In The Park, Faces $10-20 Million Shortfall — But Still Has New Work Coming
Artistic director Oskar Eustis said that “there’s no way we can responsibly prepare, build and rehearse to get shows open in a timing that might match the quarantine’s timing.” 70% of full-time staff will be furloughed through the summer, with the rest taking pay cuts. Even so, the Public is now producing a videoconferencing play that Eustis calls “the best thing about how we live now in quarantine that I’ve read in any medium.” – The New York Times