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Sunday, November 28, 2021
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Executive Director – 4A Arts


 The Executive Director will support and implement the vision and goals of 4A Arts. [READ MORE]
 

 

Development Director Position


 Working in partnership with the Executive Director, the development team and the Board, the Director of Development has primary responsibility for creating, planning, and implementing SAL’s annual development plan to raise $1.5M in FY2021/22. [READ MORE]
 

 

Development Manager, Stamford Symphony, CT


 Stamford Symphony Location: Stamford, CTType: Full TimeReports to: President and CEOSalary: In the range $80,000-$100,000 depending on experience DEVELOPMENT MANAGER Context of the PositionThe Development Manager’s primary responsibilities are to manage fundraising operations, research potential donors for the Orchestra’s five-year, $5m Crescendo Campaign for the Future of the Stamford Symphony and manage a portfolio of […] [READ MORE]
 

 

Managing Director – Village Theatre


 The MD is expected to be a critical civic partner with the AD, being both a strong internal manager with an obvious and enthusiastic external presence in the Puget Sound area. [READ MORE]
 

 

Patron Services Director at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival


 The Patron Services Director manages all aspects of customer service and patron experiences in this year-round position. [READ MORE]
 

 

Director, Opening Nights at Florida State University


 The Director, Opening Nights (ON) directs all aspects of the organization by administering and implementing strategies that advance the organization. [READ MORE]
 

 

Artistic Director – Village Theatre


 VILLAGE THEATRE seeks its next Artistic Director (AD) to lead the organization’s overall artistic operations. The Artistic Director will serve in a co-equal partnership with a Managing Director to be named after the AD is selected. Each will report to the Board through its President. [READ MORE]
 

 

Winter and Fall 2022 Applications Open for MS in Leadership for Creative Enterprises


 Northwestern University’s MS in Leadership for Creative Enterprises program develops leaders in business, innovation, and entrepreneurship across Entertainment, Media and the Arts. [READ MORE]
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Assistant Professor/Associate Professor of Theatre 

The successful candidate will play a key cross-disciplinary role in a complex and multi-faceted MFA program with concentrations in Acting, Directing, Dramaturgy, Playwriting, Theatre Management and Producing, and Stage Management. [READ MORE]

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PRESIDENT/CEO – DAVID A. STRAZ, JR. CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS 

The President & Chief Executive Officer provides the overall institutional and creative vision. [READ MORE]

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Director of Marketing & Communications, Theatre for a New Audience 

The Director leads the team on traditional and digital advertising, CRM, direct mail and email marketing, data analysis, and reporting. [READ MORE]

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Vice President of Philanthropy 

As one of the greater Phoenix area’s largest and most iconic cultural institutions, we seek dynamic, outgoing, goal-oriented team members to join our institution to help propel the Symphony into its next phase of artistic and organizational growth. [READ MORE]

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Pace University – Program Head of Musical Theater 

Pace invites applications for the position of a tenure-track Assistant Professor and Program Head of Musical Theater (PHMT). [READ MORE]

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Emelin Theatre – Executive Director 

Reporting to the board of directors, the Executive Director will be responsible for the overall administration and management of the Emelin. [READ MORE]

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Department Chair, Drama – Tisch School of the Arts, New York University 

The Chair provides artistic and academic leadership for a large faculty and student body of 1500. [READ MORE]

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PRESIDENT/CEO CENTRAL CITY OPERA 

Central City Opera (CCO) seeks a dynamic leader to be its first President & CEO (CEO). [READ MORE]

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University of the Arts seeks two Deans 

The University of the Arts is accepting applications and nominations for two crucial dean roles—Dean, School of Art and Dean, School of Film. [READ MORE]

 

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DANCE

A Surge In Ballroom Dance In South America. But…

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IDEAS

An Artificial Reality Of Self-Improvement?

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Diversifying Your Emotional States

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End Of Times – Identifying The Anthropocene

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Why Elementary Schoolkids Need This Adaptation Of The 1619 Project

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The Cultures Of Science And Art Aren’t So Different After All

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ISSUES

The Man Trying To Fix DC’s Broken Arts Commission

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Is The Working Class Shut Out Of Today’s Art?

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Shortened Comic-Con Returns, But Many Dealers Won’t Attend

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Kafkaesque US Visa System Wreaking Havoc With The Arts

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The Real Threat To Academic Freedom Isn’t Cancel Culture, It’s This…

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School Protests From A Century Ago Set The Tone For Today’s Controversies

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How Right-Wingers Tried To Turn Thanksgiving Into A Celebration Of Free Enterprise And Rejection Of Socialism

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Italy’s “Netflix For The Arts” Is Now Open Across Europe

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Africa’s Cultural Institutions Can Teach Us A Few Things About Audience Development

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Is The Problem With Culture That There’s Too Damn Much Of It? Actually, No.

- The Guardian


We’ve Made Progress. But The Thing About Progress Is It Has To Progress…

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What If We Stripped Humanities Education Back To First Principles?

- Hedgehog Review


Facebook, Via Instagram, Experiments On Teen Girls

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Come On, Britain: Give The Marbles Back

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MEDIA

Labor Unrest Grows: Near-IATSE Strike Is Sign Of Things To Come

- Los Angeles Times


Nope: Tolkien Estate Blocks Crypto Coin “JRR Token”

- The Guardian


The Problem With Piling Prosthetics On Actors To Make Them Look Like The Famous Real People They’re Playing

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Japan’s Grand Old Man Of Anime Is Making One Last Film

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Why Did An Australian TV Network Pay $1 Million For An Interview With Adele?

- The Age (Melbourne)


After George Floyd And Breanna Taylor, Do We Need TV Cop Shows To Change?

- BBC


Grandmaster Sues Netflix Over “Queen’s Gambit” Portrayal

- NPR


Kevin Spacey Ordered To Pay ‘House Of Cards’ Producers $31 Million

- Variety


How Saturday Night Live Turned Itself Into The Internet

- The Atlantic


This Year, Says The Palme D’Or Winner, Women Kicked ‘Serious Ass’ In Film

- The Observer (UK)



 

MUSIC

Sondheim Fans Gather To Mourn, Together, At Piano Bars Across Manhattan

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How Music For The Movies Is Evolving

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This Virtuoso Horn Player Works The Valves With His Left Foot

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African Diaspora Music Project Collects 1,200 Symphonies By Black Composers

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Roger Norrington, Period Practice Pioneer, Has Conducted His Last Concert

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Brit Awards Scrap Male/Female Categories

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New Facility Signals San Francisco Conservatory Community Attitude

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Opera As Mountains To Be Summited

- The New Yorker


Pianist Stephen Hough: Music Isn’t Icing On The Cake Of Life, It Is Life

- The Observer (UK)


San Antonio Symphony Musicians Strike To Prevent Personnel And Pay Cuts

- Spectrum News (San Antonio)


How Pianist Bruce Liu Won The Chopin Competition

- CBC


Lockdown Band The Verinos Tells Middle-Aged Women It’s Time To Make More Music

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Adele Changed Spotify This Weekend

- Washington Post


Decades Of Success As An Arts Administrator Requires Flexibility And Nimble Responses

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The Joys Of Playing In The Long-Locked Beatles Vault

- The Guardian (UK)


Spain Says UK Musicians Will No Longer Need Visas To Perform There

- The Guardian


The Software That Changed How Music Is Produced

- Billboard


A Worldwide Vinyl Shortage

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PEOPLE

Composer And Lyricist Stephen Sondheim, Master Of Musical Theatre, 91

- Washington Post


“Superstar” Actor Arrested In Connection With Jan. 6 Riot

- Deadline


Magnus Carlsen Has Been World Chess Champion Since His Teens. The World Of Chess Has Changed Since Then

- London Review of Books


He Was A Child Laborer, Then A Homeless Migrant. Now He’s A Prizewinning Filmmaker Who Could Get An Oscar.

- The Guardian


The Musicians, Dancers Killed In The Wisconsin Holiday Parade

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How A Lifetime Of Cross-Dressing Helped Aurore Dupin Dudevant Become George Sand

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Remembering Dave Hickey, The Renegade Critic

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Eddie Redmayne: Playing “Danish Girl” Trans Character Was A Mistake

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Writer Robert Bly, 94

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THEATRE

Stephen Sondheim Solved Puzzles Of Theatre, And Much More

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Using Medieval Mystery Plays To Revive The Cornish Language

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Study: Disparities In The Ways Theatres Are Funded

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Theatre Norms: Always Changing

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Lin-Manuel Miranda Turned Jonathan Larson’s Solo Show Into A Filmed Rock Opera

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Cary Grant, Aldous Huxley, And Clare Boothe Luce Dropping Acid Together: The Musical (We’re Not Making This Up)

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VISUAL

Filter Me This, Batman: Yassify Takes On Famous Images

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Rethink: Why Shouldn’t Shelter For Homeless People Be Beautiful?

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With Big Ceremony, Egypt Reopens Ancient Avenue Of The Sphinxes

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Our Ancient Attraction To Glass

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True Crime: Manhattan’s Art Theft Police

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Anderson Cooper Visits Caligula’s Pleasure Garden

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Why Artists Should Have Resale Rights

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How An Ancient Roman Mosaic Spent Fifty Years As A Coffee Table In A New York Apartment

- The Guardian


Zaha Hadid’s Final Buildings Are Opening Across The Arab World

- Vanity Fair


This French Town Has An Art Library That Lends To Residents. Turns Out It Also Has A €3 Million Gerhard Richter

- Artnet


NYC To Give Brooklyn Museum $50 Million

- The New York Times


The Deep Emotional Appeal Of Nature Photos

- Hyperallergic


A Man Who Helped Loot Cambodia Wants To Atone, And Recover The Artifacts

- The New York Times


Why Are Online Art Shows Phoning It In?

- Hyperallergic


An Archconservative Flips Out About The Met

- Hyperallergic


A Planned Virginia Woolf Statue Is Getting Pushback Because It’s By The Thames

- The Guardian (UK)


Lubaina Himid Won The Turner When She Was 63

- The Guardian (UK)


TR (And The Horse He’s Riding On) Heading To North Dakota

- The New York Times



 

WORDS

US Libraries See Surge In Demands To Ban Books

- The Guardian


The Spanglification Of Languages

- The New York Times


This AI Algorithm Could Help Us Figure Out Shakespeare

- The New York Times Book Review


Britain’s Collins Dictionary Declares “NFT” Word Of The Year 2021

- The Guardian


400,000 Books Burned In Bookstore Fire

- BBC


NYT’s 100 Notable Books For 2021

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An Ancient Book’s Journey From Irish Bog To Museum

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US Publishing Discovers That It Skews Rather White

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The Influential Librarian Who Was Not A Goodnight Moon Fan

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