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Finance Director, MCC Theater
 MCC Theater seeks a skilled, proactive and creative Director of Finance as an integral part of the organization’s senior leadership team. This newly created position has responsibility for management, reporting and analysis of all financial activities, and will play a key a role in strategic planning. The Director of Finance will report to the Executive […] [READ MORE]
 
Master of Arts in Arts Administration – Goucher College
 Designed for the working professional, the M.A. in Arts Administration from Goucher College allows you to live and work anywhere while you learn from national arts leaders. [READ MORE]
 
Applications open for the 2021 National Critics Institute
 Helmed by the Chicago Tribune's Chris Jones, NCI is a one-week virtual boot camp for early and mid-career arts writers to strengthen their skills. Apply by April 29. Full scholarships available, no fee to apply. [READ MORE]
 
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]
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Ordway Center for the Performing Arts – President and CEO 
The Ordway Center for the Performing Arts (Ordway) is one of the leading performing arts centers in the United States, renowned for its welcoming atmosphere and diverse programming. [READ MORE]

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Assistant Professor of Arts Management, College of Charleston 
The College of Charleston Arts Management Program invites applications for the tenure-track position of Assistant Professor of Arts Management. We are seeking a candidate with a specialization in one or more of the following areas: arts marketing, strategic planning, fundraising and grant writing, and/or legal aspects of the arts. Position Description: The Arts Management Program […] [READ MORE]

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The John J Cali School of Music at Montclair State University seeks an Associate Director 
Reporting to the Director of the John J. Cali School of Music, the Associate Director works closely with all members of the School as well as with the College of the Arts Office of the Dean. [READ MORE]

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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater – Artistic Director, Ailey II 
Founded in 1958 by the pioneering dancer, choreographer, and cultural leader Alvin Ailey, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT) has grown to become one of the world’s premier dance companies and the largest modern dance company in the country. [READ MORE]

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Atlanta Ballet – Executive Director 
Atlanta Ballet is one of the premier and oldest dance companies in America and the official state ballet of Georgia. [READ MORE]

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Communications Director, New Music USA 
New Music USA is seeking an exceptional Communications Director who will join our organization during an exciting phase of our development. [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, 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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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]


FROM TODAY'S ARTSJOURNAL BLOGS
Benchmarking? Maybe Not 

A guest post by actor/writer/arts administrator Selena Anguiano, who shares some concerns about the use of benchmarks in the process of pursuing equity in nonprofit arts organizations. – Doug Borwick

 


Filtered 

As I hear my student playing the piano through Zoom, just for a moment, I think I am hearing Paderewski in 1912. The sound is imperfect. At moments it drops out. There are distortions of speed and rhythm. Yet, my ear, my mind is hearing music: completing and linking together the aural information that is there. – Bruce Brubaker

 


Raising the flag 

As it happens, I don’t care at all for Childe Hassam’s better-known etchings — I find them fussy — but lithography brought out a freer, more adventurous streak in his work, and there is one print of his that I have long sought, Avenue of the Allies. Also made in 1918, it is a lithographic monochrome pendant to the well-known series of thirty-odd brightly colored “flag paintings” that Hassam made during and after World War I. – Terry Teachout

 


Doubting Thomas: Greenville County Museum Sells “Alma’s Flower Garden” in a Non-Transparent Transaction 

Taking a page from the problematic playbooks of the Berkshire, Everson and Baltimore museums, the Greenville County Museum of Art, South Carolina, has become the latest poster child for deplorable deaccessions. – Lee Rosenbaum

 


Marshall Marcus Talks the UN and Arts Organizations 

The Secretary General of the European Union Youth Orchestra shares about the connection between the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the mission of arts organizations. – Aaron Dworkin

 



 
TODAY'S ARTS & CULTURE NEWS ~ 04/18/2021

DANCE
What Do The Vaccines Mean For Ballet?
     - Email/share this:     - Pointe Magazine 

Where Dance Is Online
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 

‘Navy Twerking’: Why All Australia Is Arguing About A Dance Clip
     - Email/share this:     - BBC 

A Dance Critic On How The Pandemic Has Changed Her Work
     - Email/share this:     - Dance Magazine 

The College That’s Brought Popping, Breaking, Hip Hop, And Other Urban Dance Styles Into Academia
     - Email/share this:     - Dance Magazine 

Video Now/Live Later — How Pacific Northwest Ballet Approached Its Commissions After COVID Shut Down This Season
     - Email/share this:     - Dance Magazine 

A Year Into The Pandemic, Dancers Talk About How They’ve Adjusted Their Movement And Approach For Online Performance
     - Email/share this:     - Pointe Magazine 

What I’ve Learned Watching Dance Online For A Year
     - Email/share this:     - Oregon Arts Watch 


IDEAS
Fake News As A Virus
     - Email/share this:     - Aeon 

Does Grit Predict Success? Not Much Evidence
     - Email/share this:     - Nautilus 

Most People Think In Images. I Think In Sound
     - Email/share this:     - Aeon 

How Big Tech Has “Weaponized” Design Patents
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

How NFTs Fit Into The Performance Art Tradition
     - Email/share this:     - The Conversation 

How Social Media Has Collapsed Our Expression Of Thoughtful Ideas
     - Email/share this:     - Hedgehog Review 


ISSUES
What Artists Are Missing Most About Live Arts Experiences
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian (UK) 

Calculation: San Francisco Says Arts Venues Can Reopen. But Are Audiences Ready To Return?
     - Email/share this:     - San Francisco Chronicle 

Will NFTs Empower Artists?
     - Email/share this:     - Shelly Palmer 

Venice’s Gondola Tradition Is Endangered
     - Email/share this:     - Apollo 

Singapore’s First Independent Arts Complex Is Closing, And The Arts Community There Is Worried
     - Email/share this:     - South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) 

Community College Enrollment Plunges
     - Email/share this:     - InsideHigherEd 

Respected Actors Doing Commercial Endorsements Used To Be Considered Déclassé. Not Any More.
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

South African Arts Collapse During COVID
     - Email/share this:     - BBC 

Edinburgh International Festival Will Go On This Summer — Outdoors (Yes, In Scotland)
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

What TikTok Has Taught Us About Learning
     - Email/share this:     - Fast Company 

A Lawsuit About AI And Intellectual Property Law Now Involves R2D2 And WALL-E
     - Email/share this:     - Hollywood Reporter 

How To Help Students Catch Up After Lockdown? The Arts
     - Email/share this:     - San Diego Union-Tribune 


MEDIA
Please, Someone, Everyone, Save The ArcLight Hollywood’s Cinerama Dome
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

Game Of Thrones Is Ten Years Old, And It Feels Utterly Irrelevant
     - Email/share this:     - Irish Times 

Oscars Producers Say It’s A Good Thing The Pandemic Has Upended The Evening
     - Email/share this:     - Boston Globe (AP) 

There’s So Much Black Pain Onscreen, Including, Some Say, Way Too Much Painful Fiction
     - Email/share this:     - The Atlantic 

The Accent That Most Actors Won’t Even Half-Try
     - Email/share this:     - Slate 

The Weird Pilots That Didn’t Make It To TV
     - Email/share this:     - Tedium 

Wouldn’t It Have Made More Sense For Netflix To Just Buy Sony Pictures Outright?
     - Email/share this:     - Vulture 

TV Viewing Down? Networks Protest Nielsen Data
     - Email/share this:     - Toronto Star (AP) 

In The Netflix Era Does It Make Sense To Classify Movies?
     - Email/share this:     - Irish Times 

One Of The Movie Theater Chains That’s Closing Also Owns Cinerama Technology. What Happens To That Now?
     - Email/share this:     - Variety 

How A Gentle Little Movie By One Of Pakistan’s Favorite Directors Got Banned For Blasphemy That Isn’t There
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

How Endorsements Took Over Celebrity Culture
     - Email/share this:     - the New York Times 

Univision And Televisa Sign Merger To Create Spanish-Language Media Giant
     - Email/share this:     - Variety 

One Of Australia’s Most Popular Soap Operas Roiled By Accusations Of On-Set Racism
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

What The Closing Of The Arclight Theatres Means For Movie Theatres
     - Email/share this:     - Forbes 

Awards Shows Used To Be Ratings Gold. Now They Struggle
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

Two Beloved California Movie Theatre Chains To Close
     - Email/share this:     - The Hollywood Reporter 

Nature Documentaries Are A Lot More Like Porn Than You’d Like To Think
     - Email/share this:     - The Atlantic 

The Surrealists Would Have Loved TikTok
     - Email/share this:     - Wired 

And Now: Virtual DJ’s Powered By AI
     - Email/share this:     - Protocol 


MUSIC
When John Adams’ Most Playful Piece Was Booed
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

What Does Dudamel’s Paris Opera Appointment Mean For Los Angeles?
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

How Cellphones Power Popular Music In Africa
     - Email/share this:     - New Frame 

Gustavo Dudamel Is Paris Opera’s Next Music Director
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

New Stats: HipHop, Rap Now Account For 22 Percent Of Listening In UK
     - Email/share this:     - BBC 

Is It Really Possible For A Singer To Shatter A Glass With Her Voice? Well …
     - Email/share this:     - Yahoo! (AmazeLab) 

Marketing Opera On TikTok (Maybe It Works!)
     - Email/share this:     - The Telegraph (UK) 

Baltimore City Council Objects To Proposal That Would Expand Live Music
     - Email/share this:     - Baltimore Sun 

Spotify Turns 15 — It Revolutionized The Music Business
     - Email/share this:     - Variety 

How Beethoven (And The Philadelphia Orchestra) Brought The US And China Together
     - Email/share this:     - Philadelphia Inquirer 

Two Years After The Notre-Dame Fire, What’s The State Of The Cathedral’s Organs?
     - Email/share this:     - Vox Humana 

Scientists Map Spider Webs For Their Music
     - Email/share this:     - New Scientist 

Why Would Any Self-Respecting Woman Sing Schumann’s ‘Frauenliebe Und -Leben?’ In 2021? Let This One Tell You Why
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

Singing By Hand: How To Translate Songs Into American Sign Language
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

When 1970s Boston Was A Hotbed Of Contemporary Music
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Fabio Luisi, Dallas Symphony Music Director, Takes A Third Orchestra
     - Email/share this:     - Dallas Morning News 

Top Music Industry People Weigh In On The State Of Streaming
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

Dallas Symphony Invites Out-Of-Work Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Musicians To Play Joint Concert
     - Email/share this:     - Dallas Morning News 

After More Than A Year Apart, Singers Miss Collaborating
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

The Boston Symphony’s Lucia Lin Says Classical Music Is Not Eurocentric
     - Email/share this:     - Boston Globe 


PEOPLE
Joye Hummel, The First Woman To Write ‘Wonder Woman,’ 97
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Vartan Gregorian, Savior Of The New York Public Library, Has Died At 87
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Helen McCrory, Star Of Peaky Blinders And Harry Potter, Has Died At 52
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian (UK) 

The Forgotten Land Artist
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

Key Arts Figure In Belarus Freed From Prison After International Campaign
     - Email/share this:     - Hollywood Reporter 

Louis Menand On The Pragmatism Of Lionel Trilling
     - Email/share this:     - The Point 

Time To Take Bernard Henri Levy Seriously?
     - Email/share this:     - Foreign Policy 

‘The First Great Balanchine Dancer’, Mary Ellen Moylan, Dead At 95
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

‘I’m Just Free, Now That I Don’t Have To Worry About Fees’: Frank Gehry At 92
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

How Gabby Giffords Uses The French Horn To Help Her Recovery
     - Email/share this:     - PBS News Hour 

Benita Raphan, Maker Of Lyrical Short Films That Hover Between Documentary And Experiment, Has Died At 58
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 


THEATRE
In New Jersey, A Closed Theatre Results In An Arts Incubator And Virtual Shows
     - Email/share this:     - Newark Star-Ledger 

After Reports Of Abuse, Scott Rudin Claims He’ll ‘Step Back’ From Broadway
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 

Head Of New York Theatre Workshop To Step Down After 34 Years
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Through Assassination, Official Harassment, And Right-Wing-Media Smears, A Theatre In A West Bank Refugee Camp Keeps Running
     - Email/share this:     - The Stage 

Political Theatre Is Useless If It’s Just Preaching To The Choir – So What To Do About It?
     - Email/share this:     - Howlround 

With Theatres Closed, Regular Folks Have Taken To Doing Play Readings On Zoom
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

On Zoom, Using Ancient Greek Theater To Process Modern Traumas
     - Email/share this:     - On Being 

Where Second City’s New Chief Means To Lead The Improv Institution
     - Email/share this:     - American Theatre 

Steven Leigh Morris On What Did In LA Stage Alliance
     - Email/share this:     - Stage Raw 


VISUAL
Budweiser Paints Lionel Messi Ads Over Iconic Murals In India
     - Email/share this:     - Hyperallergic 

The Brooklyn Art Library Wants Your Filled Sketchbook
     - Email/share this:     - Smithsonian Magazine 

The Teams That Save Spain And Portugal’s Shop Signs, From Neon To Giant Calligraphy Pens
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian (UK) 

The Exploding Market For NFT Art
     - Email/share this:     - New York Magazine 

Now We Know This Wax Bust Is Definitely Not A Leonardo. How Do We Know? Sperm Whales
     - Email/share this:     - The History Blog 

French Court Rules Art Galleries Must Remain Closed (Never Mind The Auction Houses)
     - Email/share this:     - Artnet 

The Louvre’s Director Is Mounting A Public Campaign To Keep His Job
     - Email/share this:     - Artnet 

Sydney’s Major Museums Face Huge Funding Cuts From State Government
     - Email/share this:     - Sydney Morning Herald 

Russian Artist In Obscenity Trial For Her Female Nudes
     - Email/share this:     - Artnet 

France Is Allowing Auction Houses To Keep Operating During Lockdown, But Not Galleries. Galleries Are Suing
     - Email/share this:     - Artnet 

Firsts: Chicago Art Institute Appoints New Board Chair
     - Email/share this:     - Chicago Tribune 

New Director Of Pompeii Talks Culture Of Archaeology
     - Email/share this:     - The Art Newspaper 

The Saga Of The Jefferson Davis Chair Comes To An End (And No, It Wasn’t Really Used As A Toilet)
     - Email/share this:     - Slate 

New Turn In Saudi Arabia-vs.-Louvre ‘Salvator Mundi’ Drama (It’s Still About Spite, Though)
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

Benin Bronzes Are Not Safer Held In The West, Say Researchers
     - Email/share this:     - ARTnews 

Artist Rachel Whiteread Has Changed Her Art, And Her Life
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian (UK) 

We Know Theo, But What About Vincent Van Gogh’s Sisters?
     - Email/share this:     - Hyperallergic 


WORDS
 A French Novelist Wins The LA Times’ Book Prize For Fiction
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

 A Scammer Is Targeting British Literary Prizes Via Paypal
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

 How The 1918 Flu Pandemic Changed America’s Public Libraries
     - Email/share this:     - JSTOR Daily 

 Key Missing Link In History Of Alphabet Identified
     - Email/share this:     - Haaretz (Israel) 

 We Live In The Age Of The Ghostwriter
     - Email/share this:     - The Atlantic 

 For The Guardian, At Least, Charitable Donations To Support News Are Actually Working
     - Email/share this:     - Nieman Lab 

 Why Do Complex, Messy Spelling And Writing Systems So Rarely Get Reformed? Power
     - Email/share this:     - The Economist 

 Make It Stop! Top French Publisher Pleads With Writers To Stop Sending Manuscripts
     - Email/share this:     - Yahoo! 

 Revealed: The Masterful Sophistication Of The Aztec Language
     - Email/share this:     - The Independent (UK) 

 Does Esperanto Have Any Hope Of Ever Catching On As A World Language? Not Really, No.
     - Email/share this:     - 3 Quarks Daily 

 How Did A Cranky Old Scholar Come To Own An Indigenous Language?
     - Email/share this:     - The New Yorker 

 Is The CEO Who Saved Waterstones Turning Around Barnes & Noble, Too? Well, He Says So
     - Email/share this:     - Publishers Weekly 

 Poets Lost A Lot Of Readings, Series, And Opportunities During The Pandemic, So What Do They Think Is Next?
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

 The New Ascendance Of The Nature Memoir
     - Email/share this:     - LitHub 



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