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Five Things I’ve Learned About How Social Justice Really Happens
 Join entrepreneur, professor, MacArthur Fellow, and President Obama’s first appointment to the National Council on the Arts, Aaron Dworkin, as he shares the five things he’s learned about the life-changing power of diversity in the arts. [READ MORE]
 
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]
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Celebrity Series of Boston — Community Performances Manager (Neighborhood Arts) 
An open part time job in the Community department at Celebrity Series [READ MORE]

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Senior Director of Operations & Human Resources 
This position will have broad responsibility for Gibney’s facilities, human resources, and general operations. [READ MORE]

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Vice President, Philanthropy 
Join the global team powering the business of arts and culture! [READ MORE]

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Vancouver Maritime Museum – Executive Director 
For more than 60 years Vancouver Maritime Museum (VMM) has been sharing stories about maritime heritage in British Columbia and the Canadian Arctic that reflect a diverse range of voices. [READ MORE]

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SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVAL Executive Director 
Savannah Music Festival seeks an Executive Director, to provide leadership so the organization can continue to realize its vision, fulfill its mission, and achieve its goals for artistic success, financial stability, and community engagement. [READ MORE]

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Director of Finance, School of American Ballet at Lincoln Center 
The Director of Finance is a key member of the School of American Ballet’s senior leadership team, overseeing the School’s financial strategy and operations and ensuring the fiscal integrity and vitality of the organization [READ MORE]

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Milwaukee Repertory Theater – Director of Finance 
Milwaukee Repertory Theater (Milwaukee Rep) is the premiere producing performing arts organization in Wisconsin and one of the largest professional theaters in the United States. [READ MORE]

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OMAHA COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE Artistic Director 
OMAHA COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE (OCP) in Omaha, NE invites qualified candidates to submit applications to become its next Artistic Director. Leading the artistic life of OCP, the nation’s largest community theatre, carries with it the rich traditions of nearly 100 years of history along with community hopes for a future that uses the power of theatre […] [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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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
The Diversity of Performing Arts Audiences: Weighing Organizational Factors and Business Decisions 

The pursuit of audiences and artists who come from, and speak for, various subgroups can enrich any shared arts experience aesthetically, emotionally, and socially. Longer term, it can translate to broader support and buy-in for arts organizations — in short, to more staying power. Still, it’s not always clear which business decisions can drive this objective. Re-enter SMU DataArts. – Sunil Iyengar

 


Lynda Hartigan, Peabody Essex Museum’s Passed-Over Deputy Director, Belatedly Gets the Top Spot 

Two years ago, when the Salem, Mass. museum named Brian Kennedy, then director of the Toledo Museum, to succeed longtime director Dan Monroe, I wondered why Lynda Hartigan hadn’t gotten the nod. Now, after a brief detour to Toronto as deputy director at the Royal Ontario Museum, Lynda is returning to direct the museum that she so ably served, beginning as chief curator in 2003. – Lee Rosenbaum

 


Charles Grode Shares the Impact of Collaboration 

The President & Executive Director of the Merit School of Music shares about the importance and impact of collaboration between arts organizations. – Aaron Dworkin

 



 
TODAY'S ARTS & CULTURE NEWS ~ 05/09/2021

DANCE
Where Tap Dance Came From, And Where It’s Going
     - Email/share this:     - CBS News 

Matthew Bourne Starts New School To Prepare Minority Dancers For Professional-Level Work
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

A New York City Ballet Principal Writes About Returning To The Studio
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

New York Times Dance Critic On Writing About People’s Bodies
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

Alastair Macaulay Remembers Jacques d’Amboise
     - Email/share this:     - Alastair Macaulay 

How Four Regional Ballet Companies Are Moving Back Into In-Person Performance
     - Email/share this:     - Pointe Magazine 

ABT To Mark End Of Lockdown With Eight-City, 3,100-Mile Tour
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

Blaming Liam Scarlett’s Death On Cancel Culture Is Just Another Way To Shut Victims Up
     - Email/share this:     - Dance Magazine 


IDEAS
The End Of Net Neutrality Was Riddled With Fraud
     - Email/share this:     - Wired 

When Conditions Are Ripe To Fall For Misinformation
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Ross Douthat Sees Mediocrity Everywhere, Laments Paucity Of “Great Thinkers”
     - Email/share this:     - New Statesman 

The Hucksterism Of Selling Culture In The 20th Century
     - Email/share this:     - The Atlantic 

The Perils (And Uneasy Promise) Of Artificial Intelligence
     - Email/share this:     - Commonweal 

The Science Of Victimhood?
     - Email/share this:     - Nautilus 

“Multitasking” Is A Lie
     - Email/share this:     - Fast Company 

What If The Idea Of “The Tragedy Of The Commons” Is All Wrong?
     - Email/share this:     - Aeon 

Why We’re Attracted To Gross Things
     - Email/share this:     - Nautilus 


ISSUES
Doctor Who And Torchwood, And Men Behaving Badly
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian (UK) 

Hollywood Publicists, Netflix, And Amazon Push Golden Globes Group To Reform
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

NYC To Launch $25 Million Artist Corps Program To Hire 1,500 Artists
     - Email/share this:     - Gothamist 

New York Launches $25 Million City Artist Corps
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

Disinfectant Theatre: CDC Says Super-cleaning Surfaces Isn’t Necessary. Theatres Are Doing It Anyway
     - Email/share this:     - Variety 

UK Will Fast-Track Visas For Anyone Who’s Won An Oscar, Grammy, Golden Globe Etc.
     - Email/share this:     - Variety 

Whoosh — Chicago Arts Scramble To Get Back In The Game
     - Email/share this:     - Chicago Tribune (Yahoo!) 

Getting Students To Seriously Wrestle With Cancel Culture And ‘Loving The Art But Hating The Artist’
     - Email/share this:     - Yahoo! (Chicago Tribune) 

Austin’s Arts Funding Down By A Staggering 93%
     - Email/share this:     - Sightlines (Austin) 

How Data Science Is Analyzing The Arts
     - Email/share this:     - Cultural Analytics 

UK Threatens To Cut Funds For University-Level Arts Education By 50%
     - Email/share this:     - The Art Newspaper 

How France Is Managing Reopening Of Arts Venues
     - Email/share this:     - Variety 

Saudi Arabia’s $15 Billion Scheme To Create A Global Cultural Capital Almost From Scratch
     - Email/share this:     - Artnet 

Beleaguered StubHub Ticket Service Will Now Offer Refunds For Canceled Events
     - Email/share this:     - Seattle Times 

A California Appeals Court Holds Amazon Responsible In Third-Party Sales
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

Disney Apparently Decided Not To Pay Some Authors Their Royalties
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian (UK) 


MEDIA
Can These Movies Save The 2022 Oscars?
     - Email/share this:     - Vulture 

Why American Remakes Of Foreign Films Don’t Always Go To Plan
     - Email/share this:     - The Hollywood Reporter 

The Big Screen Experience Is Unparalleled
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian (UK) 

AMC Theatres Loses $567 Million
     - Email/share this:     - Variety 

How, And Why, Barry Jenkins Went Through With Ten Episodes Of ‘The Underground Railroad’
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

Short Opera Videos Are One Pandemic Innovation We Should Keep
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 

Hollywood Is Hiring Rage Coaches To Teach Awful Execs Some Self-Control
     - Email/share this:     - Hollywood Reporter 

‘Sesame Street’ Was A Radical Experiment
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

New AI System Makes Dubbing Of Films In Foreign Languages Less Awful
     - Email/share this:     - Hollywood Reporter 

UK’s Cinema Chains Are Reopening, Despite Shortage Of New Films To Show
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

Verizon Sells The Internet Junkyard (AOL, Yahoo…)
     - Email/share this:     - The Hollywood Reporter 

NewsNation Is Supposed To Be An ‘Unbiased’ Alternative To Fox, MSNBC, And CNN. Almost No One Is Watching It.
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

Layoffs Hit US’s Largest Public Radio Station
     - Email/share this:     - Current 

And The Oscar Goes To South Dakota
     - Email/share this:     - Rapid City Journal 

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association Vowed To Change
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

Returning Moviegoers Are Ready For More
     - Email/share this:     - The Hollywood Reporter 


MUSIC
Nashville Isn’t Coming Through For Women
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

What It’s Like To Play The Violin Of Violins
     - Email/share this:     - Strings 

In Kashmir, Sufi Music Was For Men Only. These Young Women Are Keeping It Alive
     - Email/share this:     - Christian Science Monitor 

Musicians Versus The Streaming Companies – Something’s Gotta Change
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Short Opera Videos Are One Pandemic Innovation We Should Keep
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 

La Scala Begins Construction On New Building
     - Email/share this:     - Gramilano (Milan) 

Investors Are Buying Up Vast Catalogues Of Music
     - Email/share this:     - CBC 

Britain’s NHS Tries Prescribing Song Playlists To Alzheimer’s Patients
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

The First Opera Written For And Produced In Virtual Reality
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

Britain’s Reopening, But A Quarter Of Its Summer Rock Festivals Are Cancelled. Why? Insurance.
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

How A John Denver Song Inspired A Generation Of Asian Immigrants
     - Email/share this:     - The Atlantic 

Backstage Union Warns That Met Opera Will Not Reopen In 2021
     - Email/share this:     - OperaWire 

Music Is The Universal Language? Let’s Reconsider
     - Email/share this:     - Nautilus 

Head Or Heart? How You Listen To Music
     - Email/share this:     - NightingaleSonata 

Music Festivals In The UK Say They’ll Have To Cancel Without Government Help
     - Email/share this:     - BBC 


PEOPLE
Lloyd Price, Whose Smash Hits Prefigured Rock, Dies At 88
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Lyn Macdonald, Who Preserved The Voices Of WWI Soldiers, 91
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Martin Bookspan, The Voice Of The Lincoln Center, 94
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Discovered: When Tennessee Williams Wrote A Fan Letter To Eugene O’Neill
     - Email/share this:     - UKNOW 

Trying Very Hard To Ask Bruce Dern Interview Questions
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

Book Of Antoine De Saint-Exupéry’s Love Letters Marks End Of 18-Year Legal Battle Between His Heirs
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

Celebrate Napoleon? Well, It Is His 200th Birthday…
     - Email/share this:     - The Conversation 

W. Royal Stokes, Washington Post Jazz Critic, Dead At 90
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 

Carey Perloff Remembers Olympia Dukakis
     - Email/share this:     - American Theatre 

Classical Music Broadcaster Martin Bookspan, 94
     - Email/share this:     - Berkshire Eagle 

Jacques d’Amboise, Ballet Dancer, Choreographer, And Teacher, Dead At 86
     - Email/share this:     - Yahoo! (AP) 

Eli Broad, Philanthropic Cautionary Tale
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 

Fred Jordan, Who Defied Censorship And Published The Avant Garde, 95
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

James Prigoff, Who Documented And Championed Street Art, 93
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 


THEATRE
Streaming Theatre Will Do For Now
     - Email/share this:     - Irish Times 

Broadway Reopens In Four Months, But Theatre Workers Still Need Help
     - Email/share this:     - Broadway News 

Young Vic Says “Theatre Has Changed Forever” And Will Livestream Its Work
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

One Of London’s Leading Theatres Says It Will Keep Live-Streaming Productions Permanently
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

Why Broadway Isn’t Restarting Until September
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

Cuomo: Broadway To Reopen Sept. 14
     - Email/share this:     - Deadline 

The World’s Longest-Running Play, Coming Back From Its First Closure In 69 Years
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

Plexiglass, Screens, Headphones — A Return to Theatre Spaces?
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 

Juilliard’s “Slavery Saturday”: A Teaching Moment?
     - Email/share this:     - American Theatre 

Steppenwolf Theater Artistic Director Anna D. Shapiro Resigns
     - Email/share this:     - Yahoo! (Chicago Tribune) 

Re-Entering Community Life In Person — But I Have Stage Fright
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

NYC To Lift COVID Capacity Restrictions May 19. Broadway Back?
     - Email/share this:     - Variety 


VISUAL
Is Drawing In Decline In Britain?
     - Email/share this:     - The Observer (UK) 

What Will Happen To Eli Broad’s Grand Dreams For Los Angeles?
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

Art Frieze New York Is Back, And So Are The Art Parties
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

What If An AI Bot Curated The Whitney Biennial?
     - Email/share this:     - Artnet 

How To Think About Racist Statues That Have Been Taken Down
     - Email/share this:     - Hyperallergic 

For First Time, No Individual Artists Are Finalists For Turner Prize
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

The Museum As Weapon Of War?
     - Email/share this:     - The Baffler 

The Enduring (And Contemporary) Art Of The Tartan
     - Email/share this:     - BBC 

Daniel Libeskind To Redesign Pittsburgh’s Tree Of Life Synagogue, Site Of 2018 Shooting
     - Email/share this:     - Artnet 

Did Kim Kardashian Traffic A Looted Antiquity?
     - Email/share this:     - ARTnews 

Fifty Years Ago Photography Was Barely Considered Art. Now…
     - Email/share this:     - American Scholar 

A Mysterious Group Of Ancient Monuments In Saudi Arabia Older Than The Pyramids
     - Email/share this:     - Artnet 

Meet The Detective Who’s Recovered Half A Billion Dollars’ Worth of Stolen Art
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

How To Spend COVID Relief Money? Japanese Town Buys A Giant Squid Statue
     - Email/share this:     - BBC 

Redefining Monuments In Philadelphia Neighborhoods
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

How The Sackler Family Got Its Own Art Storage Gallery At The Metropolitan Museum
     - Email/share this:     - Artnet 

Will LA MOCA Recover Its Footing?
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

The Great Mural Wall Of Los Angeles Gets An Extension
     - Email/share this:     - Hyperallergic 

Can This Modernist Gem Be Saved?
     - Email/share this:     - The Observer (UK) 


WORDS
 Writing, It Turns Out, Can Be Rather Difficult
     - Email/share this:     - LitHub 

 Emma Donoghue ‘Toned Down The Horror’ In Room
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian (UK) 

 The Birth Of Newsletters, 600 Years Before Substack
     - Email/share this:     - JSTOR Daily 

 Power Of The Press? From Op-Ed To Federal Writers Project Bill In Congress
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

 The Heated Battle Over ‘Hooked On Phonics’ (Yes, There Was One)
     - Email/share this:     - Tedium 

 Book Of Antoine De Saint-Exupéry’s Love Letters Marks End Of 18-Year Legal Battle Between His Heirs
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

 Great Writers On Their Best- And Least-Loved Punctuation Marks
     - Email/share this:     - Literary Hub 

 The Rage Fueling The New Campus Novels
     - Email/share this:     - The Nation 

 Novels Can Be Any Length. So Why Are They This Long?
     - Email/share this:     - Countercraft 

 Finally, A Decent App For Borrowing Ebooks From The Library
     - Email/share this:     - Engadget 

 Book Publishing Is About Free Speech? Ideas? Well That Myth Is Gone
     - Email/share this:     - The New Republic 

 What It Feels Like To Finish A Project During The Pandemic
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian (UK) 



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