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 Antenna is seeking a full-time executive director for its office in New Orleans, LA. An ideal candidate will possess knowledge and experience in contemporary art and artist-run spaces, an exceptional capacity for strategic direction, and willingness for on-the-ground action. [READ MORE]
 
Executive Director – The Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
 The Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra & Chorus invites applications and nominations for the position of Executive Director, available in the Summer of 2021. [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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Director of Marketing and Patron Services 
The Reser is seeking an energetic, skilled, and experienced marketing professional to join our growing team prior to opening. [READ MORE]

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Mixed Blood Artistic Director 
Mixed Blood is seeking a full-time Artistic Director to succeed the founding director and lead the organization into its next iteration. [READ MORE]

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Director of Marketing and Communications, Stamford Symphony 
Stamford Symphony seeks an exceptional marketing and communications professional to join the Orchestra at one of the most creative and developmental periods in its history. [READ MORE]

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Regional Arts Organization Looking for Traditional Arts Program Assistant Director 
This is an opportunity for an experienced professional to help lead and develop programs at a dynamic regional arts organization. [READ MORE]

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Market Manager, Talmi Entertainment/Moscow Ballet 
Talmi Entertainment - Moscow Ballet - Pittsfield, MA Full-time, Commission - Talmi Entertainment is a leading independent live entertainment Promoter, specializing in producing Moscow Ballet's Great Russian Nutcracker tours across North America. [READ MORE]

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Artistic Director – San Francisco Ballet 
SAN FRANCISCO BALLET (SF Ballet) invites qualified candidates to submit applications to become its next Artistic Director. [READ MORE]

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Director of Finance and Administration 
The Reser is seeking a skilled, experienced, and energetic financial professional to join our growing team prior to opening. [READ MORE]

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Associate Artistic Producer, Milwaukee Rep 
Milwaukee Repertory Theater, a LORT theater located in the heart of Wisconsin’s largest metropolitan area, is currently seeking applicants for the position of Associate Artistic Producer. [READ MORE]

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Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer, Jacksonville Symphony 
The Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) is responsible for planning, implementing, overseeing, and assessing Jacksonville Symphony’s marketing, branding, public relations, and audience development plans in support of the organization’s strategic vision and growth. Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) as a key member of the leadership team, the CMO will be responsible […] [READ MORE]

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Marketing, Technology and Digital Director 
The Marketing, Technology and Digital Director’s primary responsibility is the strategic development, execution, and deployment of communications, consistent with the growth and impact goals of the ASO’s 5-Year Strategic Initiatives. [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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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]


FROM TODAY'S ARTSJOURNAL BLOGS
Record man Koester’s blues and jazz legacy 

Chicagoan Bob Koester, proprietor of the Jazz Record Mart and Delmark Records for nearly 70 years, is a model of music activism and entrepreneurship from an era rapidly receding. – Howard Mandel

 


Newark’s Old Works Offloaded: NJ’s Most Prominent Art Museum Sells “Outdated” Outcasts Tomorrow 

As part of her reinvention and rebranding of the Newark Museum (which, in 2019, added “of Art” to its name, even though it also includes science exhibits and a planetarium), its current director, Linda Harrison, less than three years into her tenure, appears to be running roughshod over its own policies, not to mention the AAMD’s deaccession guidelines. – Lee Rosenbaum

 


Words to live by: Don’t shoehorn grand opera 

The return to the stage (though not their own) of the Met and of Opera Philadelphia, along with a streamed Aïda from the Paris Opera, have a few lessons for us. – David Patrick Stearns

 



 
TODAY'S ARTS & CULTURE NEWS ~ 05/23/2021

DANCE
Meet The Grand Old Man Of Kathakali
     - Email/share this:     - The Hindu (India) 

Gavin Larsen: The Everyday Ballerina
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Chloé Lopes Gomes, Fired From And Reinstated At Berlin State Ballet, Talks About The Effects Of Her Case
     - Email/share this:     - Pointe Magazine 

A Sci-Fi ‘Rite Of Spring’ Set In The Arctic
     - Email/share this:     - Pointe Magazine 

What James Whiteside Has Been Doing With (Or To?) Dance Through The Lockdown
     - Email/share this:     - Fast Company 


IDEAS
This Year’s Kennedy Center Honors Are A Breath Of Fresh Air
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 

The Pitfalls Of Public Philosophers
     - Email/share this:     - Aeon 

Claim: Virtual Reality Is Where The Internet Was 20 Years Ago
     - Email/share this:     - NASDAQ.com 

The Literature Professor Who Foresaw Neuroscience 100 Years Ago
     - Email/share this:     - Nautilus 

Study: Aboriginal Memory Technique Improves Recall
     - Email/share this:     - Cosmos 

How Tourism Is Killing Our Favorite Cities
     - Email/share this:     - The Daily Beast 

Still Burning: The Condition of Burnout
     - Email/share this:     - The New Yorker 

What The Pandemic Has Cost The Arts
     - Email/share this:     - Harper's 

Despite Best Efforts, We’re Still Terrible At Predicting The Future
     - Email/share this:     - Wired 


ISSUES
Show Our Arts Orgs The Money, Please
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Dysfunctional DC Arts Commission To Get A New Leader
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 

Eight Ways The Protests After George Floyd’s Death Changed American Culture
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

New TRG Report: Arts Activity Increased In April
     - Email/share this:     - TRG 

Should Arts Organizations Draw More From Their Endowments To Get Through The Pandemic? In Canada, The Argument Heats Up
     - Email/share this:     - The Globe and Mail (Canada) 

The Case For Banning The Unvaccinated From Theatres
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

Study: BIPOC Arts Workers In LA Earn 35 Percent Less
     - Email/share this:     - Artnet 

The Amenities This Developer Is Adding To Apartment Buildings Are Theaters And Gallery Spaces
     - Email/share this:     - Artnet 

UK Culture Minister: I Won’t Allow Our History To Be Cancelled
     - Email/share this:     - The Telegraph (UK) 

Diversity Means Teaching How To Think Rather Than What To Think
     - Email/share this:     - The Atlantic 

Radio City Music Hall Set To Reopen At 100% Capacity, No Masks Required
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

At The Ballpark, In The Concert Hall, A Crowd Feeds Off Itself. But At 25% Full?…
     - Email/share this:     - WGBH 


MEDIA
Former Moonlighting Showrunner Glenn Gordon Caron’s Time At CBS Ends After An Investigation
     - Email/share this:     - The Hollywood Reporter 

Don’t Count Print Newspapers Out Yet
     - Email/share this:     - Irish Times 

When An Actor Agrees To Take A Subject’s Secrets To The Grave
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

Please Stop The Streaming Wars
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

Movie Theatres Are Begging Audiences To Return
     - Email/share this:     - NPR 

How The AI That’s Supposed To Revolutionize Dubbing Foreign Films Actually Works
     - Email/share this:     - Wired 

Why Are Telecom Companies So Bad At Media?
     - Email/share this:     - Om Malik 

Sex Scenes On Screen Aren’t Disappearing. In Fact, They’re Getting Better.
     - Email/share this:     - The Conversation 

Will Audiences Return To Movie Theatres?
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

The Arts’ Digital Era Has Just Begun
     - Email/share this:     - San Francisco Chronicle 

All Arts Are Local? Not Anymore
     - Email/share this:     - San Francisco Chronicle 

Veiled Threats: A New Sitcom About An All-Female Muslim Punk Band (?)
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

Why Do Canadians Like American TV More Than Canadian?
     - Email/share this:     - Toronto Star 

How TV/Movie Costumes Shape Our Perceptions Of Royalty
     - Email/share this:     - The Conversation 

Regulators Eye Warner/Discovery Merger With Skepticism
     - Email/share this:     - Variety 

Jeopardy Contestant’s Innocent Hand Gesture Sends Conspiracists Wild
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Co-Host Bob Garfield Fired From Public Radio’s ‘On The Media’
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

Amazon In Talks To Buy MGM For $9 Billion: Report
     - Email/share this:     - Variety 

It’s Official: AT&T Is Spinning Off WarnerMedia To Merge With Discovery
     - Email/share this:     - Hollywood Reporter 

How The Golden Globes Brought On Its Own Demise
     - Email/share this:     - New York Magazine 


MUSIC
That Viral Band The Linda Lindas Gets A Record Contract
     - Email/share this:     - Variety 

A Japanese Composer, A Burkina Faso Storyteller, And A Congolese Rapper Make Opera
     - Email/share this:     - BBC 

Italy Wins EuroVision
     - Email/share this:     - BBC 

What Might Opera Look Like In A Post-Pandemic World?
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

Honey, I Found A Guarneri In The Attic
     - Email/share this:     - The Strad 

After 66 Years, There’s A Professional Orchestra In Yorkshire Again
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

Opera Philadelphia Gives Up This Year’s O Festival
     - Email/share this:     - Philadelphia Inquirer 

How Glyndebourne Didn’t Miss A Step
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

Seeing How Musical Instruments Actually Get Made
     - Email/share this:     - San Francisco Classical Voice 

Using Public Domain Songs As Fodder For Something New
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

The Year Of Singing Dangerously
     - Email/share this:     - KQED 

On The Rediscovery Of Black Composers Of The Past
     - Email/share this:     - Classical Voice North America 

How The Met Opera’s Telemarketing Strategy Backfires On Itself
     - Email/share this:     - David Rohde 

The Mystery Man Who Now Controls The World’s Largest Classical Music Management Company
     - Email/share this:     - Billboard 

Simon Rattle Asks UK Ministers For Help With Brexit And The London Symphony Orchestra
     - Email/share this:     - The Observer (UK) 

The Video Game Platform That Spawned Its Own Music Genre
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 


PEOPLE
Kathleen Andrews, The Woman Who Helped Bring Us Ziggy, Cathy, And Doonesbury, 84
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Librarian Ruth Freitag, Who Helped Isaac Asimov And Carl Sagan With Research, 96
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Alix Dobkin, ‘Head Lesbian’ And First Star Of Womyn’s Music, Dead At 80
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 

The Enduring Influence Of Midori
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 

Debora Chase-Hicks, Pioneering Dancer With Ailey And Philadanco, Dead At 63
     - Email/share this:     - Philadelphia Inquirer 

Dr. Aaron Stern, Psychiatrist Who Headed Hollywood’s Ratings Board, Dead At 96
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

Art Gensler, Who Founded World’s Largest Architectural Firm, Dead At 85
     - Email/share this:     - CNN 

Actor Charles Grodin, 86
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 

Dick Van Dyke Is 95, And He Really Wants To Get Back On Stage
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 

Lois Lew, The Woman Who Mastered IBM’s 5400-Character Typewriter
     - Email/share this:     - Fast Company 

Katherine Barber, Founding Editor Of The Canadian English Dictionary, 61
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 


THEATRE
Adapting A Bestselling Historical Novel For The Stage During A Global Pandemic Isn’t Easy
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian (UK) 

How Colonial Williamsburg Is Producing Progressive Theatre
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 

‘This American Wife’: When Yale Drama Grads Take On The ‘Real Housewives’ Franchise
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

New York’s Drama Book Shop, Saved By ‘Hamilton’, Set To Reopen
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

Meet The Mother Of LA’s Inner City Shakespeare
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

Critic And Comic: Sarah Silverman And AO Scott Talk About A Provocative Review
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

If You’re Incorporating ASL In Your Play, Please, Please Don’t Do These Things
     - Email/share this:     - American Theatre 

Garth Drabinsky — Back On Broadway
     - Email/share this:     - Theatre Mania 

London’s West End Reopens Yet Again, Hoping This Time Will Stick
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

Britain’s Stages Are Not Reopening With Theatrical Comfort Food
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

Can The Golden Ratio Predict Hit Musicals?
     - Email/share this:     - The Conversation 


VISUAL
Should We Call Great Women Artists By Their First Names?
     - Email/share this:     - Hyperallergic 

And Now Tattoos Will Be Sold As NFTs
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Want To Sponsor Artwork In The Notre Dame Restoration?
     - Email/share this:     - Artnet 

A Film That Takes Us Inside The Met Museum In A Difficult Year
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Sometimes The Best Way To Preserve Ancient Mosaics Is To Rebury Them
     - Email/share this:     - Hyperallergic 

This Is What Banksy Gets For Saying ‘Copyright Is For Losers’
     - Email/share this:     - World Trademark Review 

Manhattan Gets A Cool New Little Island
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

The New Gehry Towering Over Arles
     - Email/share this:     - Smithsonian 

A Strong Art Auction Season, Featuring Controversial Museum Sales
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Six Stolen Roman Frescoes Returned To Pompeii
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

Final Suspect In Dresden Jewel Robbery Arrested
     - Email/share this:     - Artnet 

A Years-Long Argument Over Conceptual Art, Capitalism, Classism, And Stir-Fried Noodles
     - Email/share this:     - South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) 

Inside One Texas Museum’s Controversial COVID Response
     - Email/share this:     - Texas Observer 

Asking The Museums That Have Benin Bronzes About Repatriation
     - Email/share this:     - Artnet 

At Last, Bourse de Commerce—Pinault Collection Opens In Paris
     - Email/share this:     - Reuters 

V&A Museum Union Warns Job Cuts Would Cost “1,000 Years Of Expertise”
     - Email/share this:     - Evening Standard 

Uffizi Gallery Is Making Up Its Pandemic Cash Shortfall By Releasing NFTs Of Its Collection
     - Email/share this:     - Artnet 

World’s Oldest Cave Art Is Being Damaged By Climate Change
     - Email/share this:     - CNN 

A Design Challenge To Densify Los Angeles
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

Why Workers At The Walters Museum Are Organizing A Union
     - Email/share this:     - BMore Art 

It’s A Golden Age For Chinese Archaeology. Why Isn’t The West Paying Attention?
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 

There’s A Brief Post-Lockdown Window For Britons To See Their Museums Devoid Of Tourist Throngs
     - Email/share this:     - The Observer (UK) 


WORDS
 How Jane Rogers Took On Britain’s Very Male Literary Establishment In The 80s
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian (UK) 

 An Israeli Airstrike Has Destroyed Gaza’s Largest Bookstore
     - Email/share this:     - LitHub 

 How A Book Gets Adapted For A Movie
     - Email/share this:     - LitHub 

 Do Away With Classics Because They’re Imperialist?
     - Email/share this:     - The New Yorker 

 ‘The French Author Is No Longer Just The White Man Over 50’; The Gallic Literary World Is Finally Diversifying
     - Email/share this:     - Christian Science Monitor 

 A Poetry Slam, Moved From The Apollo Theatre To A Clothing Boutique
     - Email/share this:     - The New Yorker 

 Amazon Makes Deal To Lend Books Through The Digital Public Library of America
     - Email/share this:     - Publishers Weekly 

 Why People Hate The Sound Of Their Own Voices
     - Email/share this:     - The Conversation 

 The Hidden Treasures Of The St. Louis Central Library
     - Email/share this:     - The Daily Beast 

 Blake Bailey’s Philip Roth Biography, Withdrawn By W.W. Norton, Picked Up By New Publisher
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

 The Guardian Newspaper Was Founded The Year Napoleon Died. It’s Been A Singular Enterprise Ever Since
     - Email/share this:     - New York Review of Books 

 And The Dylan Thomas Prize Goes To
     - Email/share this:     - LitHub 

 Chicago Had The Most Radical Advice Columnist Of The Roaring ’20s
     - Email/share this:     - Slate 



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