It’s hard to describe this, but basically, actress Kathryn Hahn and her family are staging Glengarry Glen Ross with American Girls dolls, filming the results, and uploading them to YouTube. Please, just go watch. – Vulture
Tag: 04.17.20
Speculation: Independent UK Museums Likely Won’t Survive Virus
Independent institutions that usually depend on entrance fees and are not backed by regular grants or funding are thought to be most at risk. London’s Florence Nightingale Museum and Charles Dickens Museum are among those who have appealed for more help. – BBC
There’s Boredom And Then There’s Boredom As A Punishment
For people whose “confinement” looks more like days on end in pajama bottoms, media outlets scramble to provide useful tips for combatting quarantine-induced boredom. Users’ social-media feeds are flooded with content that makes light of how people are responding to the drudgery and how hilariously creative they can be in their attempts to break up monotony. Yes, the boredom of sheltering in place can be stressful, but for incarcerated people, that stress can be deadly. – The Atlantic
Indie Musicians Take To Social Media To Replace Live Gig Income
“Sales do not drive a career the way they used to, so it’s more imperative than ever for artists to stay out on the road. And right now we’re not talking about a diminishment of income, we’re talking about a cessation of it. It’s done. And no one can tell us for how long.” – Washington Post
We’ll Need A New Model For The Arts. The Question Is What
Stephen Hetherington: “I think it unfortunate that the rise in state support has produced its own ideological and political adherents, creating for some a mythological differentiation between art and entertainment, and between the supposed coarseness of commercial motivation and a sacralised, Kantian notion of L’art pour l’art – “without purpose, for all purpose perverts art”. The evidence is quite different: artistic creations move freely between the subsidised and the commercial (but not necessarily profitable) sectors, while neither has a monopoly on quality.” – Arts Professional
Connecting Online: Our Culture Is Moving Online – But Seniors Struggle
Only 26% of internet users 65 years and older said they feel “very confident” when using computers, smartphones or other electronics to do what they need to do online, according to a 2015 study from Pew Research. – CNN
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