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View this email in your browser Visit the ARTSJOURNAL WEBSITE for the latest news AJBlogs | Ideas | Dance | Issues | Media | Music | People | Theatre | Visual | Words | Audience This Week's Newsletter Sunday, February 2, 2025 Skip down to News PREMIUM AJ CLASSIFIEDS Reach our 30,000 subscribers - Advertise on AJ Increase Audiences and Donors in 2025? 3 Arts Marketing, Development & Ticketing Conferences to Choose From! Deadline: February 21 Find out in Toronto, June 24-25; San Francisco, July 22-23; or New York City, August 5-6. Sign up by February 21 to get 3-for1 registration. [READ MORE] Seraphic Fire Seeks Director of Sales and Marketing Nationally recognized choral ensemble seeks to fill this position responsible for driving ticket sales, increasing audience engagement, and enhancing brand visibility to support its mission. [READ MORE] Director of Development – Glimmerglass Festival The Director of Development oversees all aspects of fundraising. [READ MORE] AJ CLASSIFIEDS Reach our 30,000 subscribers - Advertise on ArtsJournal jobs Artistic Programming Manager The Wallis is seeking a highly efficient Artistic Programming Manager [READ MORE] jobs Merola Opera Program seeks Director, Membership & Engagement The Merola Opera Program is hiring a full-time Director, Membership & Engagement to drive growth, enhance relationships, and boost marketing strategies. Send resume/CL to HR@merola.org. [READ MORE] jobs TheatreWorks Silicon Valley seeks Executive Director Apply to co-lead one of the country’s leading professional theatres and the Bay Area’s third-largest non-profit theatre. [READ MORE] jobs Ballet Hispánico seeks Director of Finance and Administration The Director of Finance and Administration (DFA) will lead all financial operations at Ballet Hispánico, establishing strong fiscal procedures and systems, and ensuring compliance with laws and regulations. Reporting directly to the CMD, the DFA will play a critical role in strategic decision-making and operational management, supporting Ballet Hispánico’s growth and capacity-building efforts. Overseeing a […] [READ MORE] jobs PEM, Director of Exhibition Design PEM, Salem, MA, seeks a Director of Exhibition Design to lead its studio, serving as Lead Designer for select exhibitions. [READ MORE] jobs Director of Leadership Gifts – Grand Teton Music Festival Reporting to the Director of Development, the Director of Leadership Gifts is a critical new role responsible for expanding the Festival’s fundraising capacity. [READ MORE] jobs Director of Blume Studios Events Blumenthal Arts seeks an innovative leader and event producer to serve as Director of Blume Studios Events. [READ MORE] MOST RECENT AJBLOGS Elizabeth Sobol talks about creating value for arts ecosystems - Aaron Dworkin What Would a Post-NEA (Arts) America Look Like? - Alan Harrison Allyssa Jones talks about connecting young people with diverse composers - Aaron Dworkin A Kiss Is Still a Kiss - Jan Herman The Tangled Legacy of JFK and the Cultural Cold War: America Needs a New Public Policy for the Arts - Joe Horowitz DANCE Today In Dancing Robots: A Lunar New Year Show In Beijing - Business Insider Royal Ballet School In London Settles With Student Over Body Shaming Suit - BBC Reviving The Original Staging Of The Tchaikovsky Ballet “Sleeping Beauty” - Dance Magazine A Chinese Lion Dance Troupe Resists The Patriarchy - AFP (Yahoo!) Ballets By Female Choreographers Performed By US Companies See Slight Decline - Dance Data Project Australia’s Contemporary Dance Pioneer Is Still Performing At Age 91 - The Guardian What Makes Lion Dancing So Rigorous, And Rewarding - NPR IDEAS We’ve Been Obsessing On The End Of The World Since Time Began - The New Yorker A Life Of Psychological Riches - The Guardian Storytelling And The Art Of Advice - Anonymous A “Vibe Shift” In Our Culture? Maybe Not - Unpopular Front Your Memories — Guided By Your Online Digital Trail - Public Books The Super-Communication Technologies That Separate Us - LA Review of Books Laughing Is Fun. But Anthropologically… - Sapiens How Do We Determine Bad Art From Good? - Salmagundi In A Time Of Relentless Change, What, Artistically Should Stay Consistent? - The New York Times Could AI Be A Way To A Better You? - The New York Times People Who Know Little About AI Are Much Friendlier Toward Using It - Wired How The Von Trapps Actually Got To America Wasn’t Like The Movie - Slate The Death Of The Commons - The Atlantic ISSUES Wired Is Tracking As US Government Websites Disappear - Wired How Hollywood Plans To Help Rebuild LA - Chrictian Science Monitor Using Art To Unlock Potential In A Small City - Christian Science Monitor At Last! Scotland’s Arts Groups Finally Know How Much Funding They’ll Get - The Scotsman Two Cultural Funding Agencies Ask Oregon Legislature To Merge Them - Oregon ArtsWatch US Copyright Office Expands Copyright Law To Include AI-Assisted Creation - The Hill Brands Are Appropriating Our Peak Cultural Moments - Eater Smithsonian To Close Its Diversity Office Following Trump’s Order - The Washington Post (MSN) Texas Public Schools Have Big, Busy Arts Programs. It’s Time They Be Funded Properly. - Texas Monthly Deborah Rutter To Step Down As Head of The Kennedy Center - The New York Times Every Artist In Britain Including Paul McCartney Wants The Government To Stand Up To AI Pressure - BBC As We Get Farther From The Year She Died, What We’re Missing About Anne Frank - The New York Times Hugh Grant Urges British Police To Open A Criminal Investigation Into Tabloid Owners - BBC MEDIA Is There Any Way To Fix The Academy’s International Film Category? - Vulture This Parody Of “Emilia Pérez” Is A Better Work Of Art Than Its Model: J.P. Brammer - Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!) Trump Administration Enemies Lists Have The Feel Of Hollywood’s Blacklist - Deadline Netflix Is Coming For Broadcasters Worldwide - The Conversation Have Karla Sofía Gascón’s Old Tweets Torpedoed The “Emilia Pérez” Oscar Campaign? - Variety Quentin Tarantino Says He’s Writing A Play - The Hollywood Reporter Are Smart Phones Really Ruining Our Children’s Mental Health? - The New Republic Why So Many Architects Detest “The Brutalist” - The Guardian DeepSeek AI Omits Answers About Ai Weiwei And Other Dissident Artists - Hyperallergic Major Layoffs At BBC World Service - Press Association (UK) MUSIC Mark Swed: The Next Generation Of Piano Virtuosi - Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!) Postmortem: What Brought Down The Pitchfork Festival - Chicago Sun-Times Opera Australia Chief Abruptly Resigns - Sydney Morning Herald Minnesota Orchestra Posts $3.8 Million Deficit But Record Earned Revenue - The Minnesota Star Tribune Reviving The First Known Opera By A Black American Composer - Early Music America The Former Chicago 7-Eleven That Will Now Dispense Classical Music - Chicago Sun-Times Spotify Paid A Record $10 Billion To Music Rights Owners In 2024 - Music Business Worldwide Paul McCartney And Elton John Protest Proposed Changes To UK Copyright - The Guardian Site-Specific New York Company On Site Opera Shuts Down - The New York Times Spotify: The Aural Drug That Flattens Music - The Wall Street Journal Classical Concert Top Tens For 2024: Busiest Orchestras And Performers, Most-Played Composers, Etc. - Bachtrack Spotify And Universal Music Group Reach A Deal That May Help Musicians After Bundling Fiasco - Variety Jessie Grimes Has Been A Successful Classical Musician For Years, And At Last She Feels Comfortable - Irish Times Pittsburgh Symphony, Despite Rising Revenues, Has A Seven Million Dollar Deficit - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette PEOPLE Phyllis Dalton, Oscar-Winning Costume Designer For Historical Epics Doctor Zhivago And Henry V, Has Died At 99 - The New York Times Patti Smith Collapses Onstage In Brazil - AP Marianne Faithful, 78 - The Washington Post (MSN) Kazuyoshi Akiyama, Former Music Director Of Vancouver And Syracuse Symphonies, Is Dead At 84 - Vancouver Sun (MSN) Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Pioneering Native American Artist, Has Died At 85 - Artnet Checking In With Theaster Gates - The Guardian New York’s New Superstar Cultural Philanthropist Couple - The New York Times Felicity Jones Does Not Want To See Herself In Her Movies - The Guardian (UK) This Actor Would Like For The Next Season Of The Traitors To Star, Well, Actors - The New York Times THEATRE Two Seattle Theatre Companies To Merge - Seattle Times Musical Theatre Adaptation Of Neil Gaiman’s “Coraline” Cancelled Following Sexual Misconduct Allegations - The Guardian Climate-Protesting Theatre Vandals Interrupt West End “Tempest” - The Standard (London) Artistic Director Of Toronto’s Soulpepper Theatre To Step Down - Canadian Press (MSN) This Broadway Play About Fighting Over Vaccines Is Very Tricky — Because The Audience Is Laughing So Hard - The New York Times “Hamlet” And “Grand Theft Auto.” Okay. - The New Yorker Chicago’s Lookingglass Theatre Co., Now Reopened, Has Ambitious Plans - Chicago Tribune (Yahoo!) When A Theatre Critic Stands At Performances (He Sees More) - Washington Post Theatre Critics, Tear Down That Wall - The Stage (UK) VISUAL Over $200 Million Worth Of Stolen Paintings Recovered By French Authorities - Artnet Design For 2025 Serpentine Pavilion In London Revealed - Dezeen Three Suspects Arrested In Theft Of Ancient Gold From Dutch Museum - AP English Heritage Sites To See Layoffs And Winter-Season Closures - The Guardian Frick Collection In New York Sets Official Reopening Date For This Spring - Artnet Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art Starts Charging Admission For The First Time - ArtsHub Sotheby’s Reports Declined Sales - Artnet Louvre’s Decision To Move “Mona Lisa”: Misguided? - The Guardian French Protest Macron’s Stained Glass For Notre Dame - The Wall Street Journal Is This Really A Forgotten Van Gogh? - The Wall Street Journal (MSN) Mona Lisa To Get Its Own Room In Extensive Renovation At Louvre - AP Little-Known Bernini Sculpture Is On Public View For First Time In Centuries - Artnet Will The Smithsonian Have To Obey Trump’s Anti-DEI Orders? - ARTnews Leaked Memo: The Damage Overcrowding Is Doing To The Louvre - ARTnews The Louvre Has Become Overwhelmed By Visitors - The Guardian British Museum Was Partly Closed This Weekend Following Cyber-Vandalism By Ex-Employee - ARTnews Washington’s National Gallery Ends DEI Programs - Hyperallergic The Architecturally Important Houses Lost In The LA Fires - The Wall Street Journal WORDS This May Be America’s Very Last Store Selling Real Typewriters - Broad Street Review (Philadelphia) US Authors Guild Offers Certification Label For Books Created By Real Writers And Not AI - The Guardian What Happens To Our Culture When The Skill Of Handwriting Disappears? - The Guardian Simon & Schuster Will Stop Requiring Book Blurbs For Its Books - Publishers Weekly Another Evildoers-With-AI Problem: Fake Author Profiles On Social Media - The Bookseller (UK) Superstar Fantasy Author George R.R. Martin Has Co-Authored A Peer-Reviewed Physics Paper - Ars Technica The Small Publishers Shaking Up Africa’s Books Culture - The Guardian Want To Understand Good Poetry? Study The Bad Stuff - 3 Quarks Daily Indie Bookstore Service Launches E-Reader Platform - USA Today WH Smith To Sell Its Non-Airport Bookstores - Publishers Weekly Department of Education Will No Longer Investigate Book Bans - The New York Times Why Reading Lolita In Tehran Still Holds Up - The Atlantic Which Author Better Predicted, Or Can Help Us Deal With, The Fires In Los Angeles? - The Stranger (Seattle) There’s No One Better Than Jane Austen - The Guardian (UK) Happy reading! Got a story recommendation? We love to hear them. Send tips to artsbeat@artsjournal.com. We'll see you tomorrow. AJBlogs | Ideas | Dance | Issues | Media | Music | People | Theatre | Visual | Words | Audience Copyright © 2025 ArtsJournal, All rights reserved. You subscribed to this list. Our mailing address is: ArtsJournal117 E. 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