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The New School launches multidisciplinary MFA in Contemporary Theatre and Performance
 Launching in Fall 2021 and currently accepting applications, the Master of Fine Arts in Contemporary Theatre and Performance at the School of Drama at The New School in NYC reimagines traditional conservatory training to prepare young artists to thrive as theater-makers in a changed world. The School of Drama at The New School in NYC […] [READ MORE]
 
Lucas Museum of Narrative Art seeks Chief Strategy and Administration Officer
 Reporting to the Director/CEO, the CSAO will work with Trustees, other senior leadership, and varied teams across the museum to develop and implement strategy, DEIAB, and people-centered policies and practices for a first-of-its-kind museum being built in Los Angeles. [READ MORE]
 
Brevard Music Center – Marketing & Communications Manager
 The Brevard Music Center seeks a qualified job candidate to serve as our new, full-time Marketing & Communications Manager. Interested applicants can learn more at http://www.brevardmusic.org and apply via Indeed. [READ MORE]
 
Call for Applications: Master of Science in Leadership for Creative Enterprises at Northwestern University
 Northwestern University’s MS in Leadership for Creative Enterprises program develops leaders in business, innovation, and entrepreneurship across Entertainment, Media and the Arts. Earn your Master’s in One Year. [READ MORE]
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DIRECTOR OF CURATORIAL AFFAIRS 
The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, (NPG) seeks a creative museum leader with expertise in art history at the doctoral / Ph.D. level or equivalent masters-level with a minimum of 10 years of active curatorial practice and management-level museum experience. [READ MORE]

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Hubbard Street Dance Chicago – Artistic Director 
As one of the world’s leading contemporary dance companies whose ensemble knows no boundaries, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago (Hubbard Street) brings artists, art, and audiences together to enrich, engage, educate, and change lives through the experience of dance. [READ MORE]

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Marketing & Communications Manager 
Want to be challenged ... ISC is the right place for you! [READ MORE]

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The Philadelphia Orchestra Seeks to Recruit Several Key Team Members 
Through innovative programming, robust educational initiatives, and commitment to the community, the Philadelphia Orchestra is on a path to create an expansive future for classical music, and to further the place of the arts in an open and democratic society. [READ MORE]

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Clark Art Institute seeks a Communications Manager 
The Clark Art Institute is looking to hire a Communications Manager to promote and raise awareness of the Clark Art Institute on regional, national and international levels using public relations, marketing, social media, the Clark’s website, and advertising to achieve goals. [READ MORE]

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Dean Stetson University School of Music – DeLand, Florida 
The Stetson University School of Music seeks a visionary leader to guide an artistic community of dedicated faculty, staff, students, and concertgoers in advancing our mission of fostering a broad educational experience and enhancing the positive impact of music-making in our world. [READ MORE]

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Seeking innovative leader 
Creative leadership position with an active arts membership organization [READ MORE]

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Chief Executive Officer 
Over 30+ years, Artscape has evolved from a Toronto-based provider of affordable artist studios to a globally-renowned group of not-for-profit organizations with a mission to make space for creativity and transform communities. [READ MORE]

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PRESIDENT SEARCH, ARTS IN STARK 
We are pleased to represent ArtsinStark (AIS), the county arts council and sponsor of the annual fund drive for the arts, located approximately 60 miles south of Cleveland in Canton, Ohio. [READ MORE]

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Astral Artists seeks Executive Director 
Astral Artists is seeking a dynamic and innovative Executive Director to build on the extraordinary work that has been done on behalf of aspiring performing artists. [READ MORE]


FROM TODAY'S ARTSJOURNAL BLOGS
Bronx Cheer! Hall of Fame for Great Americans (Championed Here) Gets an NEH Chairman’s Grant 

As an mild antidote to severe post-election anxiety, let’s savor a morsel of good news from the federal government: Although it falls short of what I’d hoped for, I’d like to think I may have had something to do with this announcement last week from the NEH. – Lee Rosenbaum

 


Two Hours of Twenty-Four 

I’ve been e-mailed a rich, if daunting array of hour-long videos that make up Yoshiko Chuma’s Love Story, the School of Hard Knocks.There are twenty-four of them in all. Think about it. No, don’t. I’m about to try writing about just two of them. – Deborah Jowitt

 


Deaccession Deactivation: Fallout from Baltimore Museum’s Pullout from Sotheby’s (& other pratfalls) 

The misadventures of Sotheby’s David Galperin, hyping four anticipated highlights of Sotheby’s Oct. 28 Contemporary Art sale, would be ripe for parody if the underlying issues weren’t serious. – Lee Rosenbaum

 



 
TODAY'S ARTS & CULTURE NEWS ~ 11/08/2020

DANCE
Dancer And Choreographer Akram Khan Embraces A New Physical Challenge
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian (UK) 

Choreographing Differently-Abled Dancers
     - Email/share this:     - Dance Magazine 

Choreographers Now Making Dance With A.I. And Robotics
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

A Robot Choreographer Explains Why Her Job Is Necessary
     - Email/share this:     - Dance Magazine 

The Modern Dance Collective That Was Like A Rock Band, Right Down To The Groupies
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

Nasty Fight Breaks Out Between Joffrey School, Former Director
     - Email/share this:     - New York Post 

Anna Pavlova And The White Russians Who Transformed Dance In China
     - Email/share this:     - South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) 

NY City Ballet Uses Lincoln Center As A Set, But…
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 


IDEAS
How To Market To Millennials And Zoomers?
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

How Archaeology Regards Layers And Order
     - Email/share this:     - Psyche 

The “Me Industrial Complex”
     - Email/share this:     - Sydney Review of Books 

Why Should Art Need To Be “Relevant”?
     - Email/share this:     - Harper's 

Why Anxiety Is Essential To Our Wellbeing
     - Email/share this:     - Psyche 

How To Tell When Societies Are On The Verge Of Collapse
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

How To Stay Creative During COVID Lockdown
     - Email/share this:     - Harvard Business Review 

What Exactly Is “Theory” In The Humanities (And Why Should We Care?)
     - Email/share this:     - The Millions 

Calculating The Value Of A Single Vote (Precisely)
     - Email/share this:     - 80000 Hours 

Scientists Are Applying Electricity To The Brain Again In Search Of Therapies
     - Email/share this:     - Psyche 

Creating DeepFakes To Make Controversial People Confess
     - Email/share this:     - Forbes 

Why Americans Think It’s All About Us
     - Email/share this:     - New Statesman 


ISSUES
Is Requiring Ethnic Studies In Universities A Good Idea?
     - Email/share this:     - The Conversation 

For Arts Workers In Europe, This Second COVID Lockdown Feels Different
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

The Fantasy Of QAnon (But A Sick One)
     - Email/share this:     - ArtForum 

Jersey City Voters Approve Dedicated Arts Tax
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

Virus And Lockdown Will Clear Out ‘A Bit Of Dead Wood’ From The Arts, Says Artist
     - Email/share this:     - BBC 

Artists And Our Cultural Divide
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

Venice’s Guidelines For New Flood Barrier Will Sacrifice St. Mark’s For Sake Of Container Port
     - Email/share this:     - The Art Newspaper 

A Recap of Trump’s, Pence’s, Biden’s, And Harris’s Records On the Arts
     - Email/share this:     - Artnet 

Rehearsals And Streamed Performances May Continue Under New Lockdown In UK
     - Email/share this:     - Yahoo! (Press Association UK) 

Unions And Arts Orgs Argue About Renegotiating Contracts
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 

Milwaukee’s Pabst Theatre Protests COVID Restrictions
     - Email/share this:     - WISN (Milwaukee) 


MEDIA
Watching Women Who Wallop
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

After Losing Libel Case In Britain, Johnny Depp Is Asked To Leave The ‘Fantastic Beasts’ Franchise
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

The Great British Bake Off’s Famous Illustrator Has A Secret
     - Email/share this:     - BBC 

Shooting A Pivotal Plot Moment, Changed By The Pandemic, During The Pandemic
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

The New GBBO Is All About Flowers
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

The Viral Video That Captures America Just Now Is A Snowball Fight In 1897 France
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times Magazine 

Where Was Commercial Radio In Britain Born? In Biscuit Factories
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

All That Campaign Money Saved The TV Ad Business’s Bacon
     - Email/share this:     - Variety 

Pandemic Could Permanently Change How Movie Box Office Figures Are Reported
     - Email/share this:     - Hollywood Reporter 

Canada Proposes Treating Streaming Like Broadcast Services
     - Email/share this:     - CBC 

Jeremy O. Harris Has Gotten HBO To Pay For Experimental Theater Stagings
     - Email/share this:     - Vulture 

AMC Theatres Report 90 Percent Decline In Revenue
     - Email/share this:     - Variety 

Quibi’s Closure Announcement ‘Blindsided’ People Who Actually Make Its Content
     - Email/share this:     - Hollywood Reporter 

Streaming Services Likely To Dominate This Year’s Oscars
     - Email/share this:     - HuffPost 

Prognosis For Cable TV Is Even Worse Than You Think
     - Email/share this:     - Protocol 

Cable TV Is Falling Off A Cliff
     - Email/share this:     - CNBC 

Johnny Depp Loses Libel Case Against British Tabloid
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian (UK) 


MUSIC
Don’t Let The Orchestra Become A Museum piece
     - Email/share this:     - The Strad 

The Woman Who Built Beethoven’s Pianos
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Chicago Jazz Clubs Flounder Under New Shutdown
     - Email/share this:     - Chicago Tribune 

Researchers Link Peak Music Moments To Brain Stimulation
     - Email/share this:     - Psychology Today 

Alan Pierson On Rehearsing New Music With Conventional Orchestras Vs. Specialists
     - Email/share this:     - Van 

A Radical Rethink Of San Francisco State University’s Music Program
     - Email/share this:     - San Francisco Classical Voice 

Mass Layoffs And Orchestra Rebellion As Opera Australia Prepares To Reopen
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

La Scala Cancels Opening Night After COVID Hits Company
     - Email/share this:     - AP 

Classical Concerts Under COVID: Where Things Stand In Asia, Australia/New Zealand, And the Americas
     - Email/share this:     - Bachtrack 

San Francisco Symphony Musicians Accept 30% Salary Reduction
     - Email/share this:     - San Francisco Chronicle 

“Fullnaming” Famous Composers Is Silly
     - Email/share this:     - The Bulwark 

Researchers Have Some Good News About Indoor Concerts And COVID
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

COVID Has Orchestras Rethinking The Need For Music Directors
     - Email/share this:     - The Critic 


PEOPLE
Elsa Raven, Character Actress Extraordinaire, Has Died At 91
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Marguerite Littman, Truman Capote’s Inspiration For Holly Golightly, Has Died At 90
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Betty Dodson, Evangelist Of Female Sexual Pleasure, Dead At 91
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

Composer Osvaldo Golijov Was A Rising Star. Then Ten Years Of Silence
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Architecture Critic Wins Pennsylvania State Senate Seat
     - Email/share this:     - Curbed 

Jan Myrdal, Radical Writer Son Of Legendary Parents, Dead At 93
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 

Enzo Mari, Who Brought Radical Politics To Everyday Design, Dead Of COVID At 88
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

Fierce Debate About Whether Iowa Senate Candidate Should Have A Wikipedia Entry
     - Email/share this:     - Wired 

Daniel Menaker, Author And Editor, Dead At 79
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 


THEATRE
Penumbra Theatre Is 44, And In Middle-Age It’s Sitting Pretty Even During The Pandemic
     - Email/share this:     - Minneapolis Star-Tribune 

Historical Interpreter At A Heritage Site Is One Of The Most Challenging Acting Jobs Around
     - Email/share this:     - The Stage 

Could VR Help Save Theatre?
     - Email/share this:     - Arts Professional 

Of Racism And What’s Left Of Institutions
     - Email/share this:     - Howlround 

Ben Brantley Predicts That, Before Long, Theater Critics As We Know Them Won’t Exist
     - Email/share this:     - The Stage 

D.C. Begins Pilot Program To Restart Live Theatre
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 

The Traditional Japanese Theater Genre That’s Like ‘Rocky Horror’
     - Email/share this:     - Atlas Obscura 

Hollywood Likes Broadway Again
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

When Bernstein, Sondheim, And Robbins Tried To Adapt Brecht
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

Jeremy O. Harris Has Gotten HBO To Pay For Experimental Theater Stagings
     - Email/share this:     - Vulture 

Magicians Sure Wish They Could Wave A Wand And Make This Virus Disappear
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 


VISUAL
How A Black Art Library Grew From Idea To Reality
     - Email/share this:     - Hyperallergic 

Portraits Of First-Wave NHS Workers Helped Both Artists And Frontline Medical Staff
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian (UK) 

How To Look (In Detail) At A Durer Self-Portrait
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Dutch Museums Launch Comprehensive Van Gogh Database
     - Email/share this:     - ARTnews 

What The American Election Means For The Art Market
     - Email/share this:     - The Art Newspaper 

French Senate Approves Return Of Artworks To Benin And Senegal
     - Email/share this:     - ARTnews 

Sinkholes Threaten To Swallow Historic Churches In Naples
     - Email/share this:     - The Art Newspaper 

Photographers Play Key Role In Nigerian Protests Against Police Violence And Extortion
     - Email/share this:     - Artnet 

Construction Of Ancient Mega-Stone Henge Might Have Been Resistance To Progress
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

How Times Square Became A Hotbed Of Resistance Art
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

The Guston Show Problem: Racist Images Versus Depicting Racists
     - Email/share this:     - The Nation 

Prominent Director At NY Gagosian Gallery Fired
     - Email/share this:     - ARTnet 

Approved And Then Dropped By San Francisco, Design Of Maya Angelou Monument Is Approved Again
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

Australia Will Spend Millions To Buy Back Indigenous Artifacts From Foreign Museums And Collectors
     - Email/share this:     - ARTnews 

New Research: Van Gogh’s Mental Illness
     - Email/share this:     - BBC 

China Has Wrecked Two-Thirds Of Uyghur Mosques: Report
     - Email/share this:     - The Art Newspaper 

Unethical Museums Are Unsustainable
     - Email/share this:     - MoMUS 

Which Museums Have Closed As Europe’s Second Wave Of COVID Worsens
     - Email/share this:     - ARTnews 

Zoom Reveals Architecture Is Even More Important
     - Email/share this:     - ArchDaily 

Why We Need More African Archaeologists
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

What The Drawings Show About New LACMA Building
     - Email/share this:     - CityWatch LA 

Are You Stuck Missing Galleries And Museums?
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian (UK) 


WORDS
 Hundreds Of Authors Come Together To Support Indie Bookstores In The UK
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian (UK) 

 Claire Messud On Observing The Heady Mixture Of Life, But Only Observing, As A Writer
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian (UK) 

 Back In Lockdown In Europe, What To Read?
     - Email/share this:     - Irish Times 

 Sure, Yes, Why Not Open A New Indie Bookstore In The Fall Of 2020?
     - Email/share this:     - The Oregonian 

 Will Paris’ Booksellers Along The Seine Survive?
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

 Don DeLillo And Martin Amis Were Literary Lions Of The 1980s. Now, Not So Much
     - Email/share this:     - New York Magazine 

 The First Mughal Emperor Wrote One Of History’s Great Autobiographies
     - Email/share this:     - Literary Hub 

 A Brief History Of The Ballpoint Pen (It’s Older Than You Think)
     - Email/share this:     - BBC 

 Time To Take Out The “Word Trash”
     - Email/share this:     - Fast Company 

 Using Found Language Is An Avant-Garde Literary Technique That’s Centuries Old
     - Email/share this:     - Literary Hub 

 A Conversation On Editing-Driven Writing
     - Email/share this:     - Commentary 

 Book Festival Bosses Talk About How They Turned Their Events Digital On Almost No Lead Time
     - Email/share this:     - Literary Hub 

 Is Kenyan Literature Finally Finding Its Footing?
     - Email/share this:     - Guernica 

 The Mark Twain Election Story That Was Required Reading In Communist Chinese Schools
     - Email/share this:     - Buffalo News 



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