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Jacksonville Symphony seeks Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer
 The VP & CMO works in close collaboration with the President & CEO, Senior Leadership Team, Marketing Committee, and the Music Director. [READ MORE]
 
Camerata Pacifica Seeks Executive Director
 Camerata Pacifica seeks an experienced and innovative leader to join Southern California’s premier chamber music ensemble as Executive Director. [READ MORE]
 
Jacksonville Symphony seeks Vice President & Chief Advancement Officer
 Join the Jacksonville Symphony and help us in planning, implementing, overseeing, and assessing the Symphony's development plans in support of our organization's strategic vision and growth. [READ MORE]
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Tenure-Track Africanist Dance Specialist 
The University of Akron School of Dance, Theatre, and Arts Administration seeks a dance practitioner in African Diaspora dance with the skillset to drive UA Dance to new heights. [READ MORE]

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Chief Executive Officer, Chamber Music America 
Chamber Music America (CMA) is the national service organization for the chamber music profession. [READ MORE]

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Director of Operations, Dallas Opera 
One of the leading opera companies in the country, The Dallas Opera has an extraordinary legacy of world-class productions and thrilling premieres featuring the greatest operatic artists of our time. Inaugurated in 1957 with a concert featuring the incomparable Maria Callas, The Dallas Opera is known for the notable U.S. debuts of a host of […] [READ MORE]

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Stages – Managing Director 
Stages was founded in 1978 and has grown to become one of Houston’s largest nonprofit performing arts organizations and the largest outside the downtown theater district, offering an average of 12 productions each season to more than 75,000 visitors. [READ MORE]

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Louisville Ballet seeks Executive Director 
Louisville Ballet invites applications and nominations for this important co-leadership position. [READ MORE]

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Folger Shakespeare Library – Director of Programming 
An international hub for Shakespeare scholarship and the study of the early modern period, the Folger Shakespeare Library (Folger) connects the 21st century with William Shakespeare’s work, ideas, and times in which he lived. [READ MORE]

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Director, Mannes Prep 
Founded in 1916 by the legendary musicians and music educators David and Clara Mannes, Mannes Prep is a vital provider of pre-collegiate music education programs for students ages 4-18. [READ MORE]

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The Public Theater of San Antonio 
The Public Theater of San Antonio (The Public) is San Antonio’s largest producing theater, currently celebrating its 109th consecutive year of production. [READ MORE]

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Director of Marketing, Sarasota Opera 
The Director of Marketing, a member of the senior management team, reports to the Executive Director and is accountable for the strategy, implementation, evaluation, and achievement of the $3,000,000 earned revenue goals. [READ MORE]

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Professor of Graphic Design 
Teach beginning to advanced Graphic Design courses including contemporary theories and methods in ideation, design, production, distribution, typography, portfolio development, and self-promotion, using industry standard tools and practices. [READ MORE]

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Chief Development Officer, Harlem School of the Arts 
Harlem School of the Arts (HSA) is one of New York City’s pioneering art institutions and a cultural cornerstone of the community. [READ MORE]

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VP, Lyric Unlimited – Lyric Opera of Chicago 
Lyric Opera of Chicago seeks a Vice President of Lyric Unlimited to be the senior leader for this vital department, dedicated to education and community initiatives that connect Lyric Opera to the city of Chicago through collaborative programming. [READ MORE]


FROM TODAY'S ARTSJOURNAL BLOGS
The STEEP Road Back 

The many threats and threads around reopening social spaces for live performance can easily blur together. Focused problem-solving and readiness require that we tease them apart. One way to do so might be the age-old approach to environmental scanning: the acronym STEEP. – Andrew Taylor

 


Rare Book Collecting: Connecting Brion Gysin and Paul-Armand Gette 

To rate collectors by the use they make of their collections rather than simply by completeness or the rarity and excellence of individual items makes great sense. – Jan Herman

 


Clive Gillinson Talks Leadership in a Digital World 

The Executive & Artistic Director of Carnegie Hall shares the importance of the digital landscape and leadership teams. – Aaron Dworkin

 



 
TODAY'S ARTS & CULTURE NEWS ~ 03/28/2021

DANCE
After Three Decades As Artistic Director, Kevin McKenzie To Retire From ABT
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

Connecting Dance And Nursing
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

She Took Over A Ballet Company In The Middle Of The Pandemic
     - Email/share this:     - Dance Magazine 

The Unusual Places Dance Went Out This Year
     - Email/share this:     - Dance Magazine 

Dance Was An Integral Part of Christian Worship For Centuries
     - Email/share this:     - The Conversation 

How “Dance Marketing” Helped An Indian Clothing Company Flourish
     - Email/share this:     - Media Insider 

How Did This Ballet Company Keep Its Dancers Working Throughout The Pandemic? Giving Them Other Jobs
     - Email/share this:     - Pointe Magazine 

Twyla Tharp @80
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 


IDEAS
As Animal Crossing Turns One, A Writer Contemplates How Its Look And Sounds Have Accompanied The Pandemic
     - Email/share this:     - NPR 

In Isolated, Dark, Solitary Times, Lighthouse Keepers Know How To Survive
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian (UK) 

Some Artists Actually Made Money During The Pandemic
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

Dream Big, Sure. But It Can Paralyze You
     - Email/share this:     - The Atlantic 

Can We Preserve Brains? Can We Preserve You?
     - Email/share this:     - Aeon 

Are We At A Creative Reckoning?(It’s All Good)
     - Email/share this:     - Howlround 

How Our Stories Frame Our Issues
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

The Genius Of Natural Selection. Will AI Wreck It?
     - Email/share this:     - Nautilus 

Imagination Is A Superpower
     - Email/share this:     - Aeon 

The Strange Concept Of The Polymath
     - Email/share this:     - Commentary 

How Clubhouse Took Off
     - Email/share this:     - Wired 

How Artists, The Arts, And The Culture In General Are Surviving After A Shutdown Pandemic Year In The UK
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian (UK) 


ISSUES
LA’s Music Center Is First Arts Center To Get “Healthy Building” Designation
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

San Francisco Starts Program Providing Guaranteed Basic Income To Artists
     - Email/share this:     - San Francisco Chronicle 

UK Arts Organizations Have Bled Memberships During COVID. What To Do?
     - Email/share this:     - Arts Professional 

Australia Promises More Arts Relief Money, But Still Hasn’t Given Out Most Of What It Promised Before
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

Mills College Will Shut Itself Down
     - Email/share this:     - San Francisco Chronicle 

Canadian Arts Leaders Call For Guaranteed Income For Artists
     - Email/share this:     - Ludwig Van 

Berlin Does Series Of Dry Runs For Reopening Performance Venues
     - Email/share this:     - Deutsche Welle 


MEDIA
Hey Amazon, What’s Your Problem Admitting That Leonardo Was Gay?
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian (UK) 

Hint To BAFTA: You Can’t Fix A Diversity Problem With Racist Casting Directors
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian (UK) 

Hollywood Stylists Want Their Zoom Oscars Back
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian (UK) 

Hollywood Has Failed Asian American Women For Decades
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 

Regal Theatres Owner Cineworld Posts $3 Billion Loss
     - Email/share this:     - The Hollywood Reporter 

Google Podcasts Has An Extremism Problem
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

How The Pandemic Has Changed Audio Quality On Public Radio
     - Email/share this:     - Current 

Spain’s Drive-In Movie Theaters Plead For Exemption From COVID Curfew
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

Warner To Start Theatrical Release Of Its Movies Again
     - Email/share this:     - The Verge 

COVID Shutdown Has Wiped Out Entry-Level Hollywood
     - Email/share this:     - The Hollywood Reporter 

Advertisers: If We Can’t Put Commercials On Netflix And Amazon Prime, We’ll Just Have To Make Our Own Movies
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

The Best Character Actors In The Business (Well, Most Of Them)
     - Email/share this:     - Vulture 

COVID Has Changed The Way Hollywood Works For Good
     - Email/share this:     - Variety 

Will The NFL’s New Media Deal Kill Local TV?
     - Email/share this:     - Shelly Palmer 

Good Luck Watching The Oscar Contenders In The UK
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian (UK) 

The Push For Ever More Content For Shondaland
     - Email/share this:     - Variety 


MUSIC
Yseult Is A Chanson Singer Whose Very Existence Is Riling Up The French
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian (UK) 

Now We Truly Have Everything, Including A Playlist Of Jane Austen’s Favorite Music
     - Email/share this:     - Colorado Public Radio 

Even As Life Shifted Dramatically Thanks To The Virus, Mariachi Bands Played On
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Director James Darrah: You Can’t Design Yourself Out of Something That Doesn’t Work
     - Email/share this:     - Voice of Orange County 

‘It Was Bloody Cheek Of Me To Even Try’: The Musicologist Who Dared To Complete Unfinished Mozart
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

Michigan Opera Theatre Charts A Bold New Course
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

The Metropolitan Opera Crashes Into Social Media
     - Email/share this:     - Van 

Berlin Philharmonic Sells Out Tickets In Three Minutes For First Concert Back
     - Email/share this:     - The Local (Germany) 

Black Composer Says Tulsa Opera “Decommissioned’ Him Over Line ‘God Damn America’
     - Email/share this:     - OperaWire 

A COVID-Safe Mask Opera Singers Can Really Sing In
     - Email/share this:     - San Francisco Chronicle 

UK Vinyl Record Sales Hit Highest Level Since 1980s
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

Jean Nouvel Wins Competition For Dramatic New Opera House In Shenzhen
     - Email/share this:     - ArchDaily 

Soprano Christine Goerke Named Associate Artistic Director Of Michigan Opera Theatre
     - Email/share this:     - Detroit Free Press 

Hear For Yourself The Difference Between A $5,000 Cello, A $180K Cello, And A $1 Million Cello
     - Email/share this:     - Digg (YouTube) 

The Return Of Tower Records?
     - Email/share this:     - Slate 

What A Post-COVID UK Classical Music World Might Look Like (Muddled)
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 


PEOPLE
Craig muMs Grant, Actor And Poet, Dies Suddenly At Age 52
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Tony-Award-Winning Lighting Designer Pat Collins Dies
     - Email/share this:     - Live Design 

Author Larry McMurtry Dead At 84
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

Filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier, 79
     - Email/share this:     - Hollywood Reporter 

Actor Jessica Walter Dead At 80
     - Email/share this:     - Rolling Stone 

Modernist Architect Hugh Newell Jacobsen Dead At 91
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

Actor George Segal, 87
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

It Seems We Do Know What Shakespeare Looked Like — ‘A Self-Satisfied Pork Butcher’
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

Harpsichordist Kenneth Cooper, 79
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Adam Zagajewski, ‘Poet Of 9/11’, Dead At 75
     - Email/share this:     - Yahoo! (AP) 

Reports Of James Levine’s Death Are Telling
     - Email/share this:     - San Francisco Chronicle 


THEATRE
New York Theatres Are Dark, But Their Windows Aren’t
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

The Globe Will Reopen This Summer, With Strict Protocols Including No Intermissions
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian (UK) 

How Playwriting Competitions Help The Entire Field Of Theatre
     - Email/share this:     - The Stage 

NYC Mayor Orders Vaccinations For Theatre Workers
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Britain’s Biggest Theatre Owner Buys Three Venues In San Francisco And Detroit
     - Email/share this:     - Deadline 

How Broadway Is Connecting With Fans Through A Virtual Stage Door
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Actors’ Equity Faces Rebellion Of Its Own Members Over COVID Restrictions
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

Two New York Times Critics Discuss Whether They Dare Go To An Indoor Play Yet
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

Equity Actors Would Very Much Like To Go Back To Work
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 


VISUAL
Fake News From Assyria, 2700 Years Ago
     - Email/share this:     - BBC 

The Pandemic Was, For Some, An Inadvertent Artist Residency
     - Email/share this:     - Hyperallergic 

The Boom And Bust Of The TikTok Artist Life
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Leon Black Won’t Run For Re-Election As Chair For, But Will Remain On, MoMA’s Board
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Cancel Philip Johnson? MoMA Tries
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

More Fun With NFTs: Virtual House Sells For $500k
     - Email/share this:     - The Architect's Newspaper 

Restored Ghent Altarpiece Is Finally Back Home — In A $6 Million Bulletproof Display Case
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

Germany Tries To Figure Out How To Go About Returning Benin Bronzes
     - Email/share this:     - Artnet 

China’s Architects Turn Attention To Ailing Villages
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

How Architecture Reinforces Racism
     - Email/share this:     - Bloomberg 

3,000-Year-Old Bronze Bull Unearthed By Rainstorms At Site Of Ancient Olympic Games
     - Email/share this:     - Smithsonian Magazine 

Under Pressure, Chair Promises That Hong Kong’s Big New Contemporary Art Museum Will Obey China’s National Security Law
     - Email/share this:     - South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) 

Unprecedented: The Smithsonian Is Searching For Six Museum Directors
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 

3,000-Year-Old Gold, Silk, Jade Discovered In China Could Rewrite History
     - Email/share this:     - South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) 

After National Backlash, Australian Festival Cancels Artwork That Was A Very Bad Idea
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

How To Understand NFTs And What It Means For The Art World
     - Email/share this:     - The New Yorker 

Is It Wise To Build A $915 Million Museum On A Site That Keeps Flooding?
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

What Do NFTs Mean For The Art World?
     - Email/share this:     - Slate 

Opposition Growing To Proposed Ordinance To Restrict Chicago House Museums
     - Email/share this:     - Chicago Sun-Times 

World’s Oldest Wooden Sculpture Is Far More Ancient Than We’d Thought — 12,500 Years
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

Germany In Talks To Return Benin Bronzes To Nigeria
     - Email/share this:     - Artnet 

The Art World’s Pivot To Digital (How’s It Working Out?)
     - Email/share this:     - The New york Times 

Inside The Cryptocurrency Calculations Of The Beeple Sale
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 

Palm Spring Giant “Marilyn” Is A Step Back
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

The Neglected Pyramids Of Sudan May Be Ready To Shine
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Museum Directors Are Still Divided Over Selling Art During The Pandemic
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 


WORDS
 Beverly Cleary Taught Kids Vital Life Lessons Through Ramona, The Grubby Little Pest
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 

 With More Than 7000 Languages In The World, Google Translate Is Next To Useless
     - Email/share this:     - BBC 

 Here Are The Winners Of This Year’s National Book Critics Circle Awards
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times  

 We Need To Stop Treating Literature As Self-Improvement Projects
     - Email/share this:     - Slate 

 Those Unknown Sappho Poems Discovered Back In 2014? There’s A Problem
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

 Debates Are Roiling The Translation World — Who Gets To Translate?
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 

 How The Meanings Of Words Flip From Negative To Positive
     - Email/share this:     - The American Scholar 

 Literature Of Contagion: When Writers Tell Stories Of Plagues, How Do They End?
     - Email/share this:     - The New Yorker 

 Screens Versus Pages – How We Read Depends On What We Read On
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

 Science Fiction Was Depicting Climate Change More Than A Century Ago
     - Email/share this:     - JSTOR Daily 

 Paris Review Names New Editor (The Second Emily In A Row)
     - Email/share this:     - AP 

 Blurb-Off
     - Email/share this:     - The New Yorker 

 Scavenging For A Library From The Ruins Amidst Syria’s Civil War
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

 How Libraries Are Leading The Way On Digital Equity
     - Email/share this:     - The Atlantic 



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