I’m overjoyed to report that her condition has improved significantly since yesterday. The internal bleeding has stopped, she is resting comfortably, and her doctors are completely satisfied with her progress to date. – Terry Teachout
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Another COVID Casualty: Art Dubai Postponed
Fair organisers say they will instead hold a programme of exhibitions, events and talks tailored to Dubai-based galleries, museums and artists from 25 to 28 March, when the fair was due to take place. Parts of the fair including the Global Art Forum, Residents section and Campus Art Dubai are still expected to go ahead. No alternative dates for Art Dubai to be held later in the year have so far been offered. – The Art Newspaper
Two Veteran Chicago Tribune Reporters Search For Someone To Buy The Paper
Late last year, a one-third share of the Tribune was purchased by Alden Global Capital, an equity firm notorious for buying newspapers and stripping them bare. Contractual issues prevent Alden from acquiring a controlling share until June — so a pair of Tribune investigative reporters is using every tool they have to find some other, more sympathetic buyer. Are they having any success? – The New Yorker
Grammys Make It Official – Fire Deborah Dugan
The academy announced Ms. Dugan’s removal in a letter from its executive committee, sent to the organization’s members. “We placed our trust in her and believed she would effectively lead the organization,” the committee wrote in the letter. “Unfortunately, that is not what happened.” – The New York Times
Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s ‘The Gates’, 15 Years Later
Kriston Capps reviews the 26-year-long process of convincing the City of New York to allow the project to happen in Central Park — and allows as how, when it was over, the biggest question was why anyone had ever objected. – CityLab
Yes, Hitler Wrote An Opera (A Bad One)
Long speculated about, but never before seen in public, the manuscript was apparently written after Hitler had had only a few months of piano lessons. And it clearly demonstrated the future dictator’s “inflated sense of his own abilities. The single sheet is believed to be the only surviving page of an ambitious project based on Germanic mythology that closely apes an unfinished work of the same name by Wagner himself. – The Local AT
Two Playwrights Embedded In A Newsroom. They Had To Rewrite Their Play When The Paper Started Laying Off Reporters.
“Janielle Kastner and Brigham Mosley thought they had finished writing their play about journalism when The Dallas Morning News announced layoffs in January 2019. They had spent more than a year and hundreds of hours embedded in the newsroom, interviewing and shadowing the paper’s staff to come up with what Mosley calls ‘a really beautiful, clean play.'” – Dallas Morning News
Inside The Actors Studio Host James Lipton, 93
The show featured an A-list roster of Hollywood and Broadway royalty, including Paul Newman, Barbra Streisand, Robin Williams, Spike Lee and Steven Spielberg. In exchange for their appearance, Mr. Lipton provided a relatively safe space for sometimes guarded celebrities to reveal themselves more personally before a live audience. – Washington Post
Despite Ten Years Of Economic Disaster, Athens Has Become A Hotbed Of Live Theatre
Michael Billington: “A decade described as a manageable catastrophe saw an explosion in theatre, even if artists didn’t always get paid. You can see the effects today in that money is tight but ticket prices are low. … Where does one start in such a hyperactive scene?” – The Guardian
The Very Tricky Art Of Making Five-Minute Series Episodes For Snapchat
Quibi has been getting all the press for its plans to make video series expressly to be watched on smartphones. But Snapchat has been doing that for years, creating 95 Snap Originals (as they’re called) so far. It isn’t easy to do; short running times and vertical screens are only the start of the challenges. – New York Magazine