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Sunday, August 25, 2024
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How can you make a difference?


 The Master of Arts Management program at Carnegie Mellon University empowers you to make an impact on your community through the arts. [READ MORE]
 

 

Managing Director – Syracuse Stage


 Syracuse Stage (“Stage”), Central New York’s premier professional theatre, seeks its next Managing Director, who will join Artistic Director Robert M. Hupp to lead this storied organization. [READ MORE]
 

 

Executive Director – Urban Bush Women


 Urban Bush Women (UBW) seeks an experienced, strategic, and deeply collaborative individual to serve as the acclaimed dance ensemble’s Executive Director. [READ MORE]
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Executive Director – Colonial Theatre Group 

The Executive Director of the Colonial Performing Arts Center will report directly to the Board of Directors and serve as the Colonial’s chief executive officer. [READ MORE]

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Executive Director & CEO – Museum of the Shenandoah Valley 

The Executive Director and CEO will provide visionary leadership for the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley and lead the current strategic and master plans to advance the mission, vision, and goals of MSV. [READ MORE]

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Director of Major Gifts – Jacksonville Symphony 

The Jacksonville Symphony Advancement Department raises funds through donations from individuals, corporations, foundations, the public sector, and special events to support artistic and educational programming and general operating expenses. [READ MORE]

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Managing Director – New York Theatre Workshop 

The Managing Director is responsible for the overall business, administrative, and operational management of the organization. [READ MORE]

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Director of Marketing – Austin Opera 

Austin Opera is seeking a Director of Marketing to lead its audience-building initiatives. [READ MORE]

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Director, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth 

The Modern’s next Director will engage in a strategic planning process to create and implement a vision and plan that galvanizes the passion, dedication, and efforts of the staff, Board leadership, and community for the Modern’s next exciting chapter. [READ MORE]

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Executive Director, Fargo-Moorhead Symphony Orchestra 

Fargo-Moorhead Symphony Orchestra (FMSO) invites applications and recommendations for the full-time position of Executive Director. [READ MORE]

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Director of Learning and Civic Engagement – Peabody Essex Museum 

Position Summary The Director of Learning and Civic Engagement (DLCE) is a member of the Executive Leadership Team, which is responsible for developing the overarching strategy of the institution, in collaboration with the Board of Trustees. Reporting to the Executive Director and CEO, the DLCE will be a spokesperson for the value of educational programming […] [READ MORE]

 

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DANCE

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IDEAS

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ISSUES

Is Burning Man Burning Itself Out?

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Scottish Arts Organizations Protest Deep Funding Cuts

- The Guardian


Turmoil At Spoleto Festival USA: Exodus Of Board Members And Major Staff Turnover

- The Post and Courier (Charleston)


Soaring Ticket Prices At Bolshoi Theater Leave Muscovites Furious

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Seattle Exhibit On Confronting Hate Spawns More Of It

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Disney Avoids Getting Publicly Sued By Adding Arbitration Clauses To Absolutely Everything

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Battle Of The Theme-Park Titans

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Lisa Nandy May Not Be An Artist, But She May Be The Culture Minister Britain Needs

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Barcelona Is Being Crushed By Overtourism

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Not Just The Seine: Cities Are Reclaiming Their Waterways For Swimming

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Educators Still Don’t Know How To Deal With AI And Students

- The Atlantic


Artists Claim Progress In Case Against AI Image Generators

- ArsTechnica


How The Russian Avant Garde Tried To Unite Art And Life

- The Wall Street Journal



 

MEDIA

Disney Is Fined A Trifling Amount For The Death Of A Worker On A Marvel Set

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Did Google Get Off Easy In California’s New Media Law?

- Fast Company


Takeaways On The TV Industry From This Year’s Edinburgh TV Conference

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Only Eight Percent Of UK TV Workers Are Working Class –What’s The Solution?

- The Conversation


Is Cable TV Dying Or Not? And How Might That Play Out Either Way?

- TheWrap (MSN)


Now Even Chick-fil-A Is Getting Into The Streaming Video Business

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Greek Filmmakers Pull Films From Oscar Contention

- Deadline


What Edgar Bronfman’s Offer For Paramount Would Give Shareholders That The Skydance Bid Doesn’t

- TheWrap (MSN)


Edgar Bronfman Raises His Bid For Paramount Global To $6 Billion

- Los Angeles Times (MSN)


Studio Trailer For Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis” Is Withdrawn Because It Used Fake Quotes From Critics

- Vulture (MSN)



 

MUSIC

What Republican, Democratic Pop Music Choices At Conventions Says About Them

- Washington Post


Conducting An Orchestra Made Up Entirely Of Traditional Chinese Instruments

- Classical Music (UK)


Sarasota Orchestra Appoints Nashville Symphony’s Giancarlo Guerrero As Music Director

- Sarasota Observer


Intimate Opera On The Prairies

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What The Grooves Of A Vinyl Record Look Like At 1000x Magnification

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New Jersey Symphony To Move To New Concert Hall And HQ In Jersey City

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What Have We Done To Beethoven’s Ninth, And What Has It Done To Us?

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Rethinking A Culture Of Innovation For Opera

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Pittsburgh Symphony Musicians Agree On New Contract

- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette


Melbourne Symphony Musicians Vote No Confidence In Management

- Limelight (Australia)


The Accursed Culture Of Noise-Canceling Headphones

- The New Yorker


Has Technology Caused Us To Have The Same Musical Taste?

- The Guardian


People Are Speeding Up Playback Of Songs. But The Music Sounds Different From How They Were Conceived

- BBC


Can Music Festivals Help Revive San Francisco?

- Los Angeles Times


Trend: Couples Are Asking For “Bridgerton” Music For Their Weddings

- The Guardian


The Band Trying To Get Its Fan To Do Something About Climate Change

- NPR


Claim: Tchaikovsky’s Biographers Got Him Wrong

- The Guardian



 

PEOPLE

Did Brian Eno Really Use Marcel Duchamp’s “Fountain” As The Urinal It Was Originally Manufactured To Be?

- Artnet


Walking Around The Bronx With Ian Frazier

- Slate (MSN)


Ian McKellen Says His Fat Suit Saved Him From Injury During Recent Stage Fall

- Saga


Publisher Is Selling George Orwell Papers, Breaking Up Valuable Collection

- The Guardian


Harold Meltzer, Composer And Contemporary Classical Evangelist, Has Died At 58

- The New York Times


French Actor Alain Delon, 88

- Washington Post (MSN)


Phil Donahue, 88

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THEATRE

How Did Chicago’s Improv Comedian Masters Deal With The DNC?

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- The New York Times


Lessons For Theatre From This Year’s Edinburgh Festivals

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The Politics Of, And In, Indonesia’s Traditional Shadow-Puppet Theater

- Tablet


Director Ivo van Hove Fired By Theater Where He Made His Career

- The New York Times


How A Play About Depression Became A Worldwide Phenomenon

- The Guardian


The Company That Invented The Portable Pop-Up Theater And Locked Writers In A Room Until They Drafted A Play

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Too Many New Plays, Too Few Producers

- The Stage


Geffen Playhouse Expands Its Audience To Include Prisoners And Their Families

- The New York Times


Streaming Service Aims To Expand Live Theatre Audience

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VISUAL

Washington Post Kills Its Galleries Column

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The Museum Of London’s New Logo (A Pooping Pigeon): Weird? Or Inspired?

- The Conversation


Immersive Art Shows Have Become Big Business. Can Museums Get In On It? Should They?

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Washington Post Axes “In The Galleries” Local Art Review Column

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The Genius Of Banksy’s London Animal Murals

- The Conversation


Anatomy Of An Artworld Fraud

- The New Yorker


Mark Zuckerberg’s Epically Bad Statue Of His Wife

- Washington Post


Attendance At The Louvre Sank During The Paris Olympics

- ARTnews


Do We Now Know Where The Long-Lost Leonardo “Salvator Mundi” Has Been Stashed?

- Euronews


Artists Using AI For Images Of A More Sustainable Climate

- Los Angeles Times


Why So Much Renaissance Art Turned Up In American Museums

- JStor


Why AI Art Looks So Much “Of A Type”

- The Atlantic


The Not Insignificant Costs Of “Hosting” A Banksy

- The Guardian


How Collapsing Art Sales Prices Have Brought Young Artists Down

- The New York Times


A Massive Ancient Monument 500 Years Older Than The Pyramids

- Artnet


Netflix Founder Plans To Turn Utah Ski Area Into Sculpture Park

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Goldberger: Architecture Criticism Is In “Chaos”

- Dezeen


Malaysia’s Government Says It’s Done Building Big Skyscrapers

- Dezeen



 

WORDS

A Librarian Targeted By Hate After She Defended Access To Books

- Los Angeles Times (MSN)


Why “Weird” Works As A Critique

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Louis Menand: What Is A Book Store These Days?

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AI Has Come For Translators

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The Glacial Pace Of Book Publishing Is Killing It

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Book On AI Mistakenly Flagged By Publisher’s Filters As AI

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