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July 21, 2020

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Headlines from July 21, 2020

Gavin Brown Closes His Gallery and Joins Forces With Barbara Gladstone

By Jason Farago

The British art dealer will become a partner in Gladstone Gallery, which will now represent 10 of his artists.

Culture988 words

E.U. Adopts Groundbreaking Stimulus to Fight Coronavirus Recession

By Matina Stevis-Gridneff

The $857 billion package includes unprecedented steps to help less wealthy countries, including selling collective debt and giving much of the money as grants, not loans.

Foreign1501 words

Coronavirus Threatens the Luster of Superstar Cities

By Eduardo Porter

Urban centers, with a dynamism that feeds innovation, have long been resilient. But the pandemic could drive a shift away from density.

Business1439 words

This Hospital Cost $52 Million. It Treated 79 Virus Patients.

By Brian M. Rosenthal

Red tape and turf battles marked the race to create temporary hospitals for the coronavirus onslaught in New York.

Metro1761 words

A Company Backs a Cause. It Funds a Politician Who Doesn’t. What Gives?

By Andrew Ross Sorkin

As the world expects more of corporations, it is untenable to support social and environmental causes while giving money, even indirectly, to candidates who oppose them.

Business1117 words

Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 15, 2020, covering July 21, 2020.

1
Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon
Pop Smoke
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Peak
1
Weeks
1
2
Hamilton: An American Musical
Original Broadway Cast
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14
Peak
2
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250
3
My Turn
Lil Baby
Last week
1
Peak
1
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19
4
BLAME IT ON BABY
DaBaby
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3
Peak
1
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12
5
Hollywood's Bleeding
Post Malone
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4
Peak
1
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44

Notable Deaths

2020Annie Ross, Scottish-American singer and actress (born 1930)^[†]

Annie Ross was a British-American singer and actress, best known as a member of the influential jazz vocal trio Lambert, Hendricks & Ross. She helped pioneer the vocalese style of jazz singing, with a style described by critic Dave Gelly as "a kind of dreamy watchfulness that is a definition of 1950s hip." In 2010, she was named a Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts.

2020Andrew Mlangeni, South African political activist (born 1925)^[†]

Andrew Mokete Mlangeni, also known as Percy Mokoena, Mokete Mokoena, and Rev. Mokete Mokoena, was a South African political activist and anti-apartheid campaigner who, along with Nelson Mandela and others, was imprisoned after the Rivonia Trial.

Historical Context for July 21, 2020

In 2020, the world population was approximately 7,887,001,292 people^[†]

Headlines from July 21, 2020

Gavin Brown Closes His Gallery and Joins Forces With Barbara Gladstone

E.U. Adopts Groundbreaking Stimulus to Fight Coronavirus Recession

Coronavirus Threatens the Luster of Superstar Cities

This Hospital Cost $52 Million. It Treated 79 Virus Patients.

A Company Backs a Cause. It Funds a Politician Who Doesn’t. What Gives?

Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon

Hamilton: An American Musical

My Turn

BLAME IT ON BABY

Hollywood's Bleeding

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for July 21, 2020