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Michigan Opera Theatre seeks Box Office Manager

Possessing the highest level of customer service, the Box Office Manager will be instrumental in the success of Michigan Opera Theatre's (MOT) exciting and innovative future productions, as well as the success of other productions, events, and operations at the Detroit Opera House (DOH). [READ MORE]

Michigan Opera Theatre Seeks Digital Media Manager and Storyteller

Detroit's stalwart of opera and dance is hiring for a new position, the Digital Media Manager and Storyteller. This candidate must articulate Michigan Opera Theatre's vision to its audience, and serve as an ambassador to the city of Detroit, to grow the opera and dance audience. [READ MORE]

Faculty Job Openings: USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance

The USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance in Los Angeles, CA invites applications for several full and part-time faculty positions. [READ MORE]

Charleston’s Gaillard Center seeks President and CEO

Home to Spoleto Festival USA and the Charleston Symphony Orchestra, the President and CEO will guide this elegantly designed performance hall and event space into its next phase of institutional growth and performance excellence. [READ MORE]

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FROM TODAY'S ARTSJOURNAL BLOGS

Getting the Question(s) Right

As a blogger, I think I’m supposed to begin the New Year with reflections and projections. But the traumas of 2020 are still too fresh and the way forward is too murky. What I will do is suggest that at least one question I’ve seen raised about the nonprofit arts industry in 2021 is the wrong one. – Doug Borwick

TODAY'S ARTS & CULTURE NEWS ~ 01/10/2021

DANCE

What Dallas Black Dance Theatre Learned About Virtual Performance And Charging For It
- Email/share this:     - Wallace Foundation

Nina Ananiashvili Sent To Siberia (For Her New Job)
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The Dance Of Everyday Life
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The Ballet World In Degas’s Paintings Was A Mean, Sordid Place
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After 40 Years Leading San Francisco Ballet, Helgi Tomasson To Step Down
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Why Doesn’t The Entertainment Biz Give Proper Credit To Its Choreographers?
- Email/share this:     - Dance Magazine

He’s The King, The Grandfather And The Godfather Of Roller Disco
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25 Dancers, Choreographers And Companies To Watch In 2021
- Email/share this:     - Dance Magazine

IDEAS

We’ve Become Much Nicer At Waging War
- Email/share this:     - Nautilus

What Does It Actually Mean To Live In The Now?
- Email/share this:     - Aeon

What If We Put Everyone Into A Giant Multi-Billion City?
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Is America Turning Out Too Many PhD’s?
- Email/share this:     - Bloomberg

How To Use Boredom To Your Benefit
- Email/share this:     - Psyche

What The Reality Of Cows Has To Inform Humans
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What Recent Research Reveals About Narcissists
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In Many Countries, Losing Restaurants Means Losing Community
- Email/share this:     - The New York Times

ISSUES

Yes, Things Might Look Up, But It Will Be A Long Slow Recovery For The Arts
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A New “Arts Worker” Movement
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France’s Cultural Venues Will Be Closed All Month
- Email/share this:     - Variety

‘Obscenities, Inanities And Treason’: A Critic On The Riot At The U.S. Capitol
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MD High Court Rules Rap Lyrics Can Be Used As Evidence Against Defendant
- Email/share this:     - Variety

Ex-Employees Of The California Arts Council Speak Out
- Email/share this:     - Hyperallergic

The Fifteen-Minute City? Sweden Considers The “One-Minute City”
- Email/share this:     - Bloomberg CityLab

Australian Artists: Why Did The National Government Forget Us?
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Arts Organizations Turn To Stars For Fundraising
- Email/share this:     - The Guardian

Michael Bobbitt Is Tired Of Boards. What To Do?
- Email/share this:     - American Theatre

The Current State Of Lockdowns Around Europe
- Email/share this:     - The Guardian

Britain’s Gone Into Another Lockdown. How Are The Arts Affected?
- Email/share this:     - WhatsOnStage (UK)

As Australia’s Arts Festival Season Begins Amid The Pandemic, All Eyes Are On Sydney
- Email/share this:     - The Guardian

Sydney’s Reopening Theatres Say They’re ‘COVID-Safe.’ Are They?
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The Institutions That Used To Support Creative Work
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The Acts Of Art And Creativity Censored In 2020
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MEDIA

How Do Recent And New Films Handle Elder Decline?
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The National Society Of Film Critics Picks Chloe Zhao’s Nomadland As Best Pic
- Email/share this:     - Variety

How Joan Micklin Silver Beat A Path Toward A New Kind Of Romantic Film
- Email/share this:     - The Guardian (UK)

One Of The Coolest Trends That Should Stay Post-Pandemic
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Quibi Sells Its Library To Roku
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‘Star Wars’ Fan Fiction Video Is All Over The Place — And Disney Is Fine With It
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Record Number Of Women Directors For Big Hollywood Movies In 2020
- Email/share this:     - Irish Times

How Pete Docter Is Healing Pixar After #MeToo And #TimesUp
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Analyzing The Fallout From The New York Times’s ‘Caliphate’ Podcast
- Email/share this:     - Vulture

Film Version Of ‘Hamilton’ Is Eligible For Golden Globes And SAG Awards But Not Oscars. Here’s Why
- Email/share this:     - Hollywood Reporter

LA Movie And TV Production Shuts Down
- Email/share this:     - Deadline

Figures Are In: North American Movie Box Office Income Was Down 80% In 2020
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In China, Foreign Films Have Lost Half Their Market Share In One Year
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Quibi Didn’t Last, But Its Shows May Move To Roku
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MUSIC

Los Angeles Loses Its Great Blue Whale Jazz Club
- Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times

Operas Have Tried Everything During The Pandemic, Including Opera-By-Mail
- Email/share this:     - Washington Post

Connecting Learning Music With Medical Workers
- Email/share this:     - Boston Globe

Montreal Symphony’s Next Music Director Is Rafael Payare
- Email/share this:     - AP

After A Year Away, Boston Symphony’s Music Director Is Back
- Email/share this:     - Boston Globe

Record Streaming Music In 2020
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Claim: Our Music Theory Education Is Racist
- Email/share this:     - NewMusicBox

Could Percussion Ensembles Become The String Quartets Of The 21st Century?
- Email/share this:     - San Francisco Classical Voice

Grammy Awards Postponed For Six Weeks Due To Pandemic
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Angela Hewitt Gets Custom-Made Replacement For Her Smashed Piano
- Email/share this:     - The Guardian

Lessons For Classical Music After The Lockdown
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Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Musicians Protest Met Tactics
- Email/share this:     - OperaWire

PEOPLE

Carol Johnson, Whose Landscape Architecture Transformed The Country, 91
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Michael Apted, Director Of Coal Miner’s Daughter And The 7-Up Series, 79
- Email/share this:     - The Guardian (UK)

Neil Sheehan, 84, NYT Vietnam Reporter Who Got The Pentagon Papers
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Why Are A Bunch Of Teens Convinced That Helen Keller Wasn’t Deaf-Blind?
- Email/share this:     - Newsweek

Ellen Burstyn On Her Fame (She’s Been *Very* Fortunate)
- Email/share this:     - The Guardian

Novelist Eric Jerome Dickey Dead At 59
- Email/share this:     - Yahoo! (AP)

Lee Breuer, Experimental Stage Director, Dead At 83
- Email/share this:     - New York Times

IRS: Executors Undervalued Prince’s Estate By $80 Million
- Email/share this:     - The Guardian

Frida Kahlo Has Become An Icon – At The Expense Of Her Art?
- Email/share this:     - The Critic

John Outterbridge, Sculptor Of Cast-Offs And Inspirational Arts Mentor, 87
- Email/share this:     - The New York Times

How A 65-Year-Old Actor Became An Instagram Maven
- Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times

THEATRE

The Royal Shakespeare Company Attempts A Return Of A Midsummer Night’s Sax Comedy
- Email/share this:     - The Guardian (UK)

Dr. Fauci Says That Theatres May Reopen In The Fall If Vaccination Program Is A Success
- Email/share this:     - The New York Times

‘Now I’m Sounding Like One Of My Characters’ — Suzan-Lori Parks On Playwriting
- Email/share this:     - Paris Review

How Equitable Pay Leads To Better Theatre
- Email/share this:     - Howlround

The Stage 100 For 2021 Honors British Theatre’s Response To COVID
- Email/share this:     - The Stage

A New Print Magazine (!) About Theatre Is Here
- Email/share this:     - American Theatre

Film Version Of ‘Hamilton’ Is Eligible For Golden Globes And SAG Awards But Not Oscars. Here’s Why
- Email/share this:     - Hollywood Reporter

When Theatre Comes Back To Stages It Will Be Different. But That’s OK
- Email/share this:     - The Stage

Reverse-Engineering Zoom To Make Online Theater
- Email/share this:     - HowlRound

Progress Report: BIPOC Representation In American Theatre
- Email/share this:     - Inside Philanthropy

The TikTok Musical That’s Already Earned $1 Million
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The Return Of The (High School) Radio Play
- Email/share this:     - Colorado Public Radio

VISUAL

Homage To A Mentor And A Muse
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The Black Photographers Who Changed The World’s Understanding Of Black Life
- Email/share this:     - The Guardian (UK)

The Depopulated Paris Of Young Edward Hopper Feels Like A Mirror Of Our Pandemic Times
- Email/share this:     - Washington Post

Remember The Art Of Multiples? They’re Back
- Email/share this:     - The New York Times

The Artists Secretly Creating Miniature Buildings For Street Mice Across England And Europe
- Email/share this:     - BBC

Why Has Post-War Britain Been Obsessed With Portraiture?
- Email/share this:     - Hyperallergic

The Damages To Art In The Capitol Building
- Email/share this:     - The New York Times

Medieval Silver Hoard Unearthed In Polish Village
- Email/share this:     - New York Observer

Venice’s Mayor Wants Museums To Stay Closed, And Half The Town is Furious
- Email/share this:     - The Art Newspaper

What New Anti-Money-Laundering Rules Will Mean For The U.S. Art And Antiquities Market
- Email/share this:     - Artnet

How The UK Art World Will Change Post-Brexit
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Parisian Billionaire’s Museum Is, At Last, Ready To Open
- Email/share this:     - The Art Newspaper

Orbán Gov’t In Hungary Fans Rightist Backlash Against Black Lives Matter Artwork
- Email/share this:     - The Guardian

The Organization Working To Reimagine Public Monuments
- Email/share this:     - Philadelphia Inquirer

The Art World’s 12 Biggest 2020 Controversies
- Email/share this:     - Artnet

Squatters Invade Site Of Oldest City In Americas And Threaten To Kill Archaeologists
- Email/share this:     - The Guardian

To Save Itself, San Francisco Art Institute Might Sell Its Diego Rivera Mural To George Lucas
- Email/share this:     - Artnet

An Enormous Expansion Of Melbourne Contemporary Museum
- Email/share this:     - The Art Newspaper

Has The Gagosian Gallery Left San Francisco?
- Email/share this:     - San Francisco Chronicle

The Biggest Archaeological Finds Of 2020
- Email/share this:     - Artnet

More Museums Are Presenting “Sponsored Content.” Is This A Problem?
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Inside The Largest Trove Of Nazi Propaganda
- Email/share this:     - The New Yorker

Unknown El Greco Painting Discovered In Spain
- Email/share this:     - ARTnews

Dorms Designed By Louis Kahn In India Saved From Wrecking Ball
- Email/share this:     - Dezeen

Congress Passes New Controls On Antiquities In The Defense Authorization Bill
- Email/share this:     - The New York Times

Study: Was Stonehenge Built As A Giant Amplifier?
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Star Museum Directors Talk The Future Of Museums
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Uncovering – Literally – The Forgotten And Hidden Work Of Italy’s Women Artists
- Email/share this:     - NPR

Painting In Apocalyptic Times
- Email/share this:     - CBC

A 33-Meter Hillside Vagina Sculpture Is Highlighting Brazil’s Cultural And Political Rifts
- Email/share this:     - The Guardian (UK)

WORDS

The Number Of Indie Bookstores In The UK And Ireland Soared In 2020
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Reckoning With Author Patricia Highsmith At 100
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Consider The Word ‘Sedition’
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Simon & Schuster Cancels Sen. Josh Hawley’s Book In Wake Of Capitol Riot
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What Editors Do
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‘One Of Last Great Shared Texts In Our Culture’ (And It’s A 70-Year-Old Comic Strip)
- Email/share this:     - Literary Hub

Who Exactly Invented The Alphabet, And When?
- Email/share this:     - Smithsonian Magazine

How ‘American Dirt’ Went From Hot Title To PR Fiasco And Still Became A Bestseller
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Ray Bradbury’s Outsized Influence On American Culture
- Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Review of Books

Author Of ‘War Horse’ Insists He Wasn’t Trying To Censor Shakespeare’s ‘Merchant of Venice’
- Email/share this:     - The Guardian

For Independent Bookstores, The Long 2020 Nightmare Is Not Nearly Over
- Email/share this:     - The Oregonian

The Writer Who Wants Readers To Feel Like Voyeurs
- Email/share this:     - The Guardian (UK)

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