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Director of Marketing and Communications, Celebrity Series
 Celebrity Series of Boston (CSB) seeks a Director of Marketing and Communications to provide leadership, strategic direction, and overall management [READ MORE]
 
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 Totally True Things is a weekly live-streamed show featuring award-winning storytellers focusing on mental health or social issues, followed by a rich thematic discussion that includes a specialist on the topic, moderated by Jude Treder-Wolff [READ MORE]
 
The Future of Music Faculty Fellowship – Apply by May 1
 CIM’s Future of Music Faculty Fellowship is a first-of-its-kind career development initiative for Black and Latinx music professionals considering and/or pursuing an academic career. By spotlighting and preparing exceptional future faculty leaders, the competitive fellowship takes aim at the representation gap on music faculties nationwide. The Future of Music Faculty Fellowship is a first-of-its-kind career […] [READ MORE]
 
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Camerata Pacifica Seeks Senior Executive of Administration
 Strongly positioned to surge forward once the pandemic eases, Camerata Pacifica seeks a leader to rebuild the administrative infrastructure to support live performances beginning in the Fall. [READ MORE]
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Wichita Symphony Seeks Manager of Marketing and Communications 
Join a dynamic, small team of creative innovators open to the possibilities of a symphony orchestra [READ MORE]

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Technical Director, NFA Virtual Convention 2021 
The Technical Director is responsible for all aspects of operations and implementation for the 4-day NFA Virtual Convention, Aug. 12-15, 2021. [READ MORE]

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Seattle Chamber Music Society – Executive Director 
Seattle Chamber Music Society (SCMS) presents outstanding chamber music in the Pacific Northwest with festivals in January and July and... [READ MORE]

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Stratford Festival: Director, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion 
Are you an influencer and collaborator? Thought leader? Have experience with equity, diversity and inclusion work? [READ MORE]

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Creative Industries, Professors of the Practice, Tulane University 
Be Part of a Team to Foster Future Leaders in Media, Performance, Arts [READ MORE]

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Saint Paul Conservatory of Music seeks Executive Director 
SPCM, one of our community’s premier independent music schools, seeks a creative and thoughtful leader with a deep commitment to music education, experience working with the community, and a passion for social justice opportunities through music. [READ MORE]

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Artistic Director at Salt Creek Ballet 
The Salt Creek Ballet Company and School is seeking an Artistic Director to conceive, develop, and implement the artistic vision and focus of Salt Creek Ballet. [READ MORE]

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Global Arts Live – Executive Director 
Global Arts Live is the leading presenter of international performing arts in New England, bringing global music, contemporary dance, and jazz from around the world [READ MORE]

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Digital Marketing and E-Commerce Manager, Dallas Opera 
Reporting to the Director of Marketing, Sales, and Patron Services, the Digital Marketing and E-Commerce Manager works collaboratively within the Advancement team... [READ MORE]

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Director of Finance 
Looking for a Director of Finance excited to work with a Nonprofit Organization [READ MORE]

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Director of Development – Annapolis Symphony Orchestra 
The Director of Development’s primary responsibility is to lead annual operating, special campaigns, and planned giving revenue goals. [READ MORE]


FROM TODAY'S ARTSJOURNAL BLOGS
The Five Flavors of Strategy 

As the chaos and confusion of the global pandemic shows distant glimpses of something less chaotic, the question of “strategy” is emerging once again. Now that arts organizations are making space to imagine the “next normal,” it’s worth remembering what “strategy” actually is and does. – Andrew Taylor

 


Reimagine Yourself 

The failure to lift our eyes and see that our core work can and should be connecting people with art is the principal source of the problems we have experienced over the last 20-30 years. – Doug Borwick

 


Liz Lerman Talks Movement & Discord 

The choreographer, performer, writer, educator, and speaker shares her creative process and the connection between movement and discord. – Aaron Dworkin

 



 
TODAY'S ARTS & CULTURE NEWS ~ 02/21/2021

DANCE
Black Ballerina In Utah Are Helping Change Ballet Culture
     - Email/share this:     - Salt Lake Tribune 

ABT Alum Takes Reins At Uruguay’s National Ballet
     - Email/share this:     - Pointe Magazine 

(Un)Daunted: Crystal Pite On Choreographing For The Paris Opera Ballet
     - Email/share this:     - Ludwig Van 

How The Bay Area’s Hip-Hop Dance Crews Have Kept On Through COVID
     - Email/share this:     - San Francisco Chronicle 

Black Dancers And Dance Companies Worry They Won’t Be Able To Survive Pandemic
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 

The Latest Dance Craze Sweeping The World
     - Email/share this:     - ITV 

The Five-Second Error In The “Nutcracker” Score
     - Email/share this:     - San Diego Union-Tribune 


IDEAS
Breakthrough: Scientists Figure Out How To Talk To Dreamers In Their Sleep
     - Email/share this:     - Vice 

Why “Noisy” Brains Are So Attractive (And More Difficult)
     - Email/share this:     - Nautilus 

How Big Tech Subverted The Public Square
     - Email/share this:     - Aeon 

AI Researchers Are Increasingly Worried About The Ethical Implications Of Their Work
     - Email/share this:     - The New Yorker 

Can Historians Be Traumatized By What They Study?
     - Email/share this:     - The New Republic 

Struggling With The Meaning Of Cultural Appropriation
     - Email/share this:     - LitHub 

Why We Have Difficulty Trusting Science
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Review of Books 

To Understand The Problems With Big Tech Platforms We Need To Understand What’s At Risk
     - Email/share this:     - 3 Quarks Daily 

Was Some Of Ravel’s Best Music The Product Of A Brain Disorder?
     - Email/share this:     - San Francisco Classical Voice 

Are American Progressive Ideas A Threat To France’s Identity?
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

We Worried About Children On The Internet And Completely Forgot About Adults
     - Email/share this:     - Slate 


ISSUES
The Latest Front In A Music Copyright Battle: Superhero Cartoons
     - Email/share this:     - Slate 

That Podcast Exposing One Media Empire’s Bigotry And Workplace Bullying Came Under Fire For The Same Behavior
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

Consider The Ushers…
     - Email/share this:     - Van 

The Real Failures Of Our Cultural Policies
     - Email/share this:     - Arts Professional 

Finally, The Obama Presidential Center Is Underway
     - Email/share this:     - Chicago Reader 

Arts Groups Get Snagged In Facebook’s Australia News Ban
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

Charge: UK Government Has Forgotten Culture Post-Brexit
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

Why It’s Important To Make Art With Your Kids
     - Email/share this:     - The Conversation 

Marfa, Texas Is Getting An(other) Arts Center
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

What Better Use For An Empty IKEA Store Than As An Arts Center?
     - Email/share this:     - BBC 

Keeping Up Live Performance As The World Goes Virtual
     - Email/share this:     - Philadelphia Inquirer 


MEDIA
Director Lee Daniels Says His Movies Are Independent Because Hollywood Studios Don’t Fund Black Films
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian (UK) 

The Golden Globes’ Parent Organization Is A Mess, Including Accusations Of Corruption And Tax Evasion
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

Where Did All Of Hollywood’s Women Go?
     - Email/share this:     - Irish Times 

Scorsese Says Streaming Algorithms Are Ruining Film
     - Email/share this:     - BBC 

Pigs Have Learned To Play Video Games
     - Email/share this:     - BBC 

How Hollywood Has Shaped Our Views Of The Presidency
     - Email/share this:     - JStor 

Could This Series Be The ‘Schoolhouse Rock’ For The 14th Amendment?
     - Email/share this:     - Mic 

Nielsen Will Begin To Track Diversity Alongside Ratings Numbers
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

Research Paper Linking Violence To Video Games Is Retracted
     - Email/share this:     - Science 

Why It’s Time To Reopen Movie Theaters
     - Email/share this:     - The Atlantic 

YouTube Chief Talks About What’s Next, Misinformation, And New Features
     - Email/share this:     - Fast Company 

Martin Scorsese: How Streaming Is Killing The Movie Art
     - Email/share this:     - Harper's 

Hollywood’s Hottest Young Director Is A Chinese Woman Who Makes Westerns
     - Email/share this:     - New York Magazine 

Why Disney Really Fired Gina Carano From ‘The Mandalorian’
     - Email/share this:     - Hollywood Reporter 

‘Drenching Richness’: Alex Ross Revisits The Films Of Andrei Tarkovsky
     - Email/share this:     - The New Yorker 

The Agents Behind Hollywood’s Book-To-Movie Boom
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

Playing The Man Who Betrayed Fred Hampton Sent Lakeith Stanfield Into Therapy
     - Email/share this:     - Level 


MUSIC
A Reckoning With Racism In Canada’s Country Music Industry
     - Email/share this:     - CBC 

The Music And Life Lessons Of Piano Teacher Cornelia Vertenstein
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Cancellation Of New London Concert Hall Adds To UK Musicians’ Woes
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

City Of London Abandons Plan For New Concert Hall
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

New Concert Hall For London Was A Doomed Project
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

Boston Symphony Finds Its New CEO At The LA Phil
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

For First Time, Boston Symphony Will Have Female CEO
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

This Summer’s Glyndebourne Opera Festival Will Happen (Almost) As Normal
     - Email/share this:     - Harper's Bazaar 

Now We Know What New Orleans Without Mardi Gras Music Is
     - Email/share this:     - The Daily Beast 

How Bang On A Can Changed Contemporary Music
     - Email/share this:     - San Francisco Chronicle 

Opera Singers Help Long-Term COVID Patients Get Their Breath Back
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

San Francisco Opera Is Returning To Live Performance With A Drive-In Show
     - Email/share this:     - San Francisco Chronicle 

San Francisco Opera To Return To The Stage With Drive-In Opera
     - Email/share this:     - San Francisco Chronicle 

Composer Gets No Play Until She Puts Her Music Out Under Male Pseudonym
     - Email/share this:     - The Times (UK) 

Everyone’s Pivoting – Here’s What’s Relevant To Classical Music
     - Email/share this:     - Ludwig Van 

Documentary: Could It Be Years Before Big Music Festivals Return?
     - Email/share this:     - Chicago Tribune 

Music Critic Peter G. Davis, 84
     - Email/share this:     - The Rest is Noise 

Santa Fe Opera Hires New Boss With New Title
     - Email/share this:     - Santa Fe New Mexican 

Here’s What A British Musician Now Has To Go Through To Work In Europe
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

How A Young Pianist Learns About The Liszt Sonata From Historic Recordings
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

The Chamber Music Series Getting Ten Times Its Usual Audience (And Making Money)
     - Email/share this:     - Philadelphia Inquirer 


PEOPLE
Peter G. Davis, Classical Music Critic For The New York Times And New York Magazine, 84
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

When Anthony Haden-Guest Met The Christos
     - Email/share this:     - White Hot Magazine 

Dolly Parton To Tennessee: Please Don’t Put A Statue Of Me In The State Capitol
     - Email/share this:     - CBS News 

The Woman Who Saved Samba, Back When It Was Outlawed
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

Paul Ganson, Who Saved Detroit’s Orchestra Hall, Dead At 79
     - Email/share this:     - Detroit Free Press 

Jorge Morel, Classical Guitarist And Composer, Dead At 89
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 

Johnny Pacheco, Giant Of Latin Jazz And Salsa, Dead At 85
     - Email/share this:     - Billboard 

Rauschenberg, Twombly And Johns – A Great Art Love Triangle
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

Rupert Neve, ‘The Man Who Made The Recording Console,’ 94
     - Email/share this:     - Variety 


THEATRE
Phoebe Waller-Bridge Of ‘Fleabag’ Fame Is Now The President Of Edinburgh Fringe Society
     - Email/share this:     - BBC 

The Show’s Going On Down Under
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 

As The Tonys Remain Undetermined, Where Are Previous Nominees Now?
     - Email/share this:     - NPR 

American Shakespeare Center Loses Director, Will Be Actor-led
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 

When Thornton Wilder Came Up With An Act Four Of ‘Our Town’
     - Email/share this:     - Literary Hub 

What’s At Stake For Chicago With The Sale Of Second City (To A New Yorker)
     - Email/share this:     - Yahoo! (Chicago Tribune) 

Now: Better Theatre Than Yesterday
     - Email/share this:     - HowlRound 

UK’s National Theatre Ends Tours To Europe
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

Second City Has A Buyer
     - Email/share this:     - Financial Times 

Actress Fired From ‘The Color Purple’ After Anti-Gay Posts Loses Lawsuit
     - Email/share this:     - WhatsOnStage (UK) 

Finally: More Money, Resources For Black Theatre?
     - Email/share this:     - American Theatre 

Claim: The COVID Shutdown Has Revolutionized And Democratized Theatre
     - Email/share this:     - The Stage 

COVID Has Shown Us That Theatre Is Too Dependent On Its Buildings
     - Email/share this:     - The Stage 

How A Bad Joke Ended Up In Canada’s Top Court
     - Email/share this:     - BBC 

How Can ‘Our Town’ Still Feel Utterly Contemporary, 80 Years After Its Opening?
     - Email/share this:     - NPR 


VISUAL
The Remarkable, And Continuing, Artistic Career Of Lorraine O’Grady
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Bust Of Black Member Of Lewis And Clark Expedition Appears In A Park In Portland
     - Email/share this:     - The Oregonian 

Art House Pulls 19th Century Romanian Jewish Community’s Burial Register From Auction
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Shifts In How Kids Play Mean Playground Design Needs To Follow
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian (UK) 

Is There A Way To Change, And Improve, Arts Nonprofits?
     - Email/share this:     - Hyperallergic 

Why Do We Have Such Trouble Getting Monuments Of Women Right?
     - Email/share this:     - T — The New York Times Style Magazine 

Thousands Are Angry About New Bronze Doors For 800-Year-Old Cathedral
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

Met Museum Director Defends Deaccessioning To Pay Expenses
     - Email/share this:     - The Art Newspaper 

London’s Frieze Fair Will Rent Its Space For Pop-Up Galleries
     - Email/share this:     - Artnet 

12th-Century Moorish Bathhouse Uncovered In Seville Beer Hall
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

Did The Louvre Just Ruin Its Cy Twombly Mural?
     - Email/share this:     - ARTnews 

‘Like The Metro At Rush Hour’: Vatican Museums Reopen To The Public, And It’s A Mess
     - Email/share this:     - The Art Newspaper 

Indianapolis Museum/Newfields CEO Resigns After Week Of Outcry
     - Email/share this:     - ARTnews 

Indianapolis Museum Staff Demand CEO Resign Over Job Posting
     - Email/share this:     - Indianapolis Star 

French Mayor Ordered Museums Reopened, COVID Be Damned. French Court Orders Them Closed Again
     - Email/share this:     - Artnet 

1,000-Year-Old Murals Identified In German Cathedral
     - Email/share this:     - The Art Newspaper 

Italy’s Art Museums Emerge From Lockdown, And They Have Lessons For The Rest Of Us
     - Email/share this:     - Frieze 

The Problem With Museums
     - Email/share this:     - ArtForum 

In Britain, A Dig Reveals A Lot Of Detail About Home Life In The Iron Age
     - Email/share this:     - The Observer (UK) 


WORDS
 Getting In The Archive Sub-Basements To Discover How Librarians In Paris Resisted The Nazis
     - Email/share this:     - LitHub 

 Why Are So Many Writers Having Difficulty Writing During COVID?
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

 How To Spot A Forged Dead Sea Scroll Fragment
     - Email/share this:     - Harper's 

 Book Sales Are Up 20 Percent In Australia. And Book Subscriptions Are Booming
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

 U.S. Newspapers Are Starting To Accept The ‘Right To Be Forgotten’
     - Email/share this:     - Slate 

 Study: Are “Minor” Literatures More Nationalistic?
     - Email/share this:     - Cultural Analytics 

 Getting A Grip On Australia(s) Through Graphic Novels
     - Email/share this:     - ArtsHub (Australia) 

 The Cultural Significance Of Magazines
     - Email/share this:     - The New Yorker 

 ‘A Thunderclap”, Says Publisher: Unknown Work By Proust Coming This Spring
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

 The Line Between Audiobook And Theatrical Play
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 



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