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Seeking Principal Ballet Instructor
 The Ballet Academy at Suzanne’s School of Dance, located in College Station, TX is seeking a Principal Ballet Instructor beginning August 2020. [READ MORE]
 
Managing Director/Associate Dean
 Managing Director/Associate Dean– Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre (YSD/YRT) seek a dynamic, visionary collaborator to serve as Managing Director and Associate Dean and teach courses as an Assistant or Associate Professor Adjunct in Theater Management. [READ MORE]
 
Call for Applications: Master of Science in Leadership for Creative Enterprises at Northwestern University
 The 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]
 
The Peace Center seeks a Vice President, Operations
 DHR International has been exclusively retained to conduct the search for Vice President, Operations for the Peace Center in Greenville, SC. [READ MORE]
 
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Master’s in Arts Administration & Museum Leadership
 Accelerate your career with Drexel’s flexible graduate program tailored to your needs. Online, on-campus, or hybrid programs. Complete your degree in 15 months or on your own schedule in a program with 45+ years of success. Assistantships and Fellowships available. [READ MORE]
 
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL, ASHLAND, OR
 Oregon Shakespeare Festival invites applicants and nominations for this leadership position at one of nation’s leading regional theatres. The Executive Director will join Artistic Director Nataki Garrett in a co-leadership role to guide OSF’s vision and strategy. [READ MORE]
 
Executive Director opportunity with South Carolina State Museum
 DHR International has been exclusively retained to conduct the search for Executive Director of the South Carolina State Museum, the state's largest and most comprehensive museum. [READ MORE]
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Executive Director – Arts Council of Princeton 
The Arts Council of Princeton (ACP) seeks a visionary and dynamic Executive Director to lead the organization’s strategic planning, programming, administration, fundraising and community outreach. [READ MORE]

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City of Thousand Oaks, Cultural Affairs Director 
The Cultural Affairs Director will be the chief visionary, strategic, and operational leader and will guide the Cultural Affairs Department and TOARTS as a champion for the varied programs and cultural offerings in Thousand Oaks. [READ MORE]

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Director of Social Impact 
Working across the Center’s activities, with a focus on development, education and artistic planning teams, the Director of Creative Leadership and Social Impact Initiatives [READ MORE]

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Director, Theater Producing and Programming 
The Director, Theater Producing and Programming works with VP, Theater Producing and Programming to create, develop, and manage all aspects of program administration for the Theater department. [READ MORE]

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Upstate NY’s Adirondack Experience seeks a Director of Marketing & Public Relations 
Adirondack Experience, a museum of history and wilderness with an annual operating budget of $5 million, including earned revenue goals of just over $1.1 million, is entering an exciting period of growth as it seeks to increase visitor engagement and retention. [READ MORE]

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FULL-TIME VISITING FACULTY POSITION IN THE DEPARTMENT OF ARTS ADMINISTRATION & POLICY 
The Department of Arts Administration and Policy at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) invites applications for a two-year visiting faculty position, beginning August 2020. [READ MORE]

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Madison School District – Executive Director of Madison Center for the Arts 
Madison School District in Phoenix, AZ seeks Executive Director for The Madison Center for the Arts. Apply now for this great opportunity! [READ MORE]

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Dean, Ira Brind School of Theater Arts 
The new dean will play a key role in formulating and enacting strategies to position the School of Theater as a global leader for unique and distinctive programs reflective and inclusive of diverse ideas, people and perspectives. [READ MORE]

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Director of Sales & Customer Relations 
The Director, Sales & Customer Relations leads all sales and customer relations functions of the Miami City Ballet to achieve both short and long-term budget, revenue and customer relations goals. [READ MORE]

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Director of Development 
San Juan Community Theatre seeks a Director of Development to join our team in Friday Harbor. [READ MORE]


FROM TODAY'S ARTSJOURNAL BLOGS
A Traditional ‘Straight Up’ Thanksgiving 

Our Thanksgiving team of William S. Burroughs and Norman O. Mustill has been a longtime happy pairing. It still is. So here they are again, sweetened by Heathcote Williams’s words in a narration-cum-montage by Alan Cox. – Jan Herman

 


Propwatch: the climbing tackle in ‘Touching the Void’ 

How do you capture the scale, the struggle, the elemental extremity of mountain climbing? In the theatre? It’s simpler than you think. After all, they both use the same kit. – David Jays

 


How Do We Know It’s Creative Placemaking? 

Some major organizations have been trying to figure out how to help communities use the arts and culture to create strong, shared values. – Margy Waller

 



 
TODAY'S ARTS & CULTURE NEWS ~ 12/01/2019

DANCE
Can Dance Make a More Just America? Donald Byrd Is Working on It
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

The English National Ballet Has Severed Ties With Prince Andrew
     - Email/share this:     - The Stage (UK) 

Employee Steals Nearly $800,000 From DC-Area Ballet Academy
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IDEAS
As Fines Head To The Scrap Heap, Libraries Tear Down (Self-Inflicted) Barriers For Low-Income Patrons
     - Email/share this:     - NPR 

Social Media Has Made Our Democracy More Toxic. But We Can Fix It
     - Email/share this:     - The Atlantic 

What Passes For A Soul (Or Conscience) In Silicon Valley
     - Email/share this:     - The Baffler 

Research: Extraordinary People Are More Likely To Be Polymaths
     - Email/share this:     - BBC 

The New Mr. Rogers Movie Isn’t Really About Mr. Rogers
     - Email/share this:     - BezzFeed 


ISSUES
Study: Art Therapy Helps Fight Symptoms Of Dementia
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UK Conservative Party Plans £120 Million Cultural ‘Festival Of Brexit’
     - Email/share this:     - The Art Newspaper 

Bumbershoot Was The Iconic Seattle Festival. Then It Became Generic. Now It Needs To Reinvent
     - Email/share this:     - Post Alley Seattle 

Boris Johnson Promises Conservatives Will Spend £250 Million On Culture (One Quarter Of What Labour Promises)
     - Email/share this:     - The Art Newspaper 

StubHub Sold To Viagogo For $4 Billion
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

Jeremy Corbyn Pledges New UK Charter For The Arts And Funding Of £1 Billion
     - Email/share this:     - The Stage 

In 1988 The Shroud Of Turin Was Declared A Fraud. But…
     - Email/share this:     - The Daily Beast 

The Inventor Of The World-Wide Web Thinks We Can Fix The Internet
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

The Gutting Of Local Newsrooms Is Leading To A Civic Crisis
     - Email/share this:     - NiemanLab 

Documenting ‘Old L.A.’ As Developers Destroy More And More Craftsmen Houses For Apartment Buildings
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

Apple Pulls ‘The Banker’ From Theatrical Release As Allegations About Producer Emerge
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MEDIA
A Decade After ‘The L Word’ Ended, It Returns To Get More Things Right This Time
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

It’s The Most Wonderful Time To Dig Into The Economic Push Behind Media Gift Guides
     - Email/share this:     - The Atlantic 

The 100 Greatest Films Directed By Women (An International Critics’ Poll)
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Why Netflix Bought New York’s Paris Theatre
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

The 10 Most Influential Films Of The Decade (Per The New York Times)
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After Five Years, Are We Really Sure We Know Who Hacked Sony Pictures?
     - Email/share this:     - Hollywood Reporter 

Netflix Buys Manhattan’s Last Single-Screen Movie Theatre
     - Email/share this:     - New York Magazine 

Hollywood’s Blockbusters Are Squeezing Out Everything Else
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Has Instagram Killed The Job Of The Paparazzi?
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

The Astonishing Breadth Of Turn-Of-The-Century French Director Alice Guy-Blache’s Career
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Review of Books 

In Italy, Voice Actors Can Win Dubbing Oscars
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Mid-Level Movies Are Dying
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 


MUSIC
What Does Music Mean?
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Pink Martini’s Thomas Lauderdale Once Wanted To Be Mayor Of Portland, But Rally Music ‘Really Sucked’
     - Email/share this:     - Monterey County Weekly 

Why Do Music Fans Want ‘Constant Content’ From Singers Even After The Musicians Are Dead?
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian (UK) 

Can Music Be A-Cultural?
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Alex Ross: An Iconic Recording Label Turns 50
     - Email/share this:     - The New Yorker 

Every Society On Earth Has Music, Confirm Scientists, And It’s Used In ‘Strikingly Similar Ways’ Throughout The World
     - Email/share this:     - Newsweek 

Hearing Octaves As The Same Note Is Culturally Learned, Not Hardwired In Brain: Research
     - Email/share this:     - Quanta Magazine 

Still Trying To Pin Down The Effects On The Brain Of Studying Music
     - Email/share this:     - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 

Vienna State Opera Finally Stages Work Written By A Woman (It Only Took 150 Years)
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

Metropolitan Opera Will Keep Peter Gelb Through 2027
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

Kanye West Popped-Up An Opera – So How Was It?
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

How Taylor Swift Took On Equity Firms Over Ownership Of Her Music
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Survey: Three-Quarters Of UK Youth Have Never Heard Of Mozart
     - Email/share this:     - The Daily Mail 

Music Tourism, Inventive And Identity-Affirming, Soars
     - Email/share this:     - The Observer (UK) 

The Philadelphia Orchestra Is Expanding Its Relationship With China Despite U.S.-China Tensions
     - Email/share this:     - The Philadelphia Inquirer 

These Two Sisters Meld Inuit Throat Singing With Christmas Carols
     - Email/share this:     - CBC 

The Detailed Sociological Layers Of Musicians In Marching Band
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Anne Midgette: National Symphony Is On The Brink Of…
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 

Is Los Angeles’ Community Of Musicians A Vision Of Orchestra 2.0?
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PEOPLE
Marilyn Yalom, Who Wrote About The History Of The Breast And The History Of Wives, Has Died At 87
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

An Actor Afraid Of Singing And Dancing?
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

Marion McClinton, Vital Interpreter Of August Wilson, Has Died At 65
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Clive James, 80 – Invented a Genre Of Modern TV Criticism
     - Email/share this:     - Irish Times 

The Creative Class In The Bay Area: Meaningfully Employed And Living In A Shack
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Director Jonathan Miller, 85
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Roger Cardinal, Scholar Who Coined Term ‘Outsider Art’, Dead At 79
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

How Mike Nichols And Elaine May Met (An Oral History)
     - Email/share this:     - Tablet 

Wrestling With The Complicated Theatre Criticism Of John Simon
     - Email/share this:     - American Theatre 

Dorothy Seiberling, Editor Who Explained Avant-Garde Art To The Public, Dead At 97
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

Longtime Theatre Critic John Simon, 94
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Another Young K-Pop Singer, Goo Hara, Has Died
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Raymond Kappe, Who Profoundly Influenced Southern California Architecture, Has Died At 92
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

Gahan Wilson, Cartoonist Of The Macabre, Dies At 89
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

André De Shields, Blazing A Path To ‘Hadestown’
     - Email/share this:     - American Theatre 

Longtime King’s College Choir Director Stephen Cleobury Has Died At 70
     - Email/share this:     - BBC 


THEATRE
Aleshea Harris Is A Young Playwright Fiercely Confronting U.S. Audiences On Race, History, And Power
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

What’s Happening On Broadway After Dark
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Study Refutes Longstanding Claim That Molière Didn’t Write The Plays Attributed To Him
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

Audible Is Becoming A Serious Theatre Company
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 

‘Star Wars’ Saga As Kabuki, Literally
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

This Year’s Evening Standard Theatre Award Winners
     - Email/share this:     - London Evening Standard 

A New Theatre Company Especially For Trans And Non-Binary Actors
     - Email/share this:     - The Stage 

American Theatre Is Traumatizing Its Own Practitioners
     - Email/share this:     - HowlRound 

As Arya Learned In Game Of Thrones, Swordplay Is A Lot Like Choreography
     - Email/share this:     - San Diego Union-Tribune 

A Conversation Between Lynn Nottage, Pulitzer Prize-Winner For ‘Sweat,’ And Jeremy Harris, Who Wrote ‘Slave Play’
     - Email/share this:     - Vogue 


VISUAL
The Kehinde Wiley Statue In Times Square Has Given Security Officers A Lot Of Extra Emotional Labor
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

The Boundary-Pushing Artwork Of 93-Year-Old Artist Zilla Sanchez
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Climate Change Christmas At The Tate
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian (UK) 

Ski Architecture That’s Meant To Be Egalitarian And Perhaps Has Aged Better Than It Began
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian (UK) 

London’s Dulwich Gallery Reopens After Brazen Attempt To Steal Rembrandts
     - Email/share this:     - BBC 

How A Stolen Native American Artifact Ended Up For Sale In Paris
     - Email/share this:     - Hyperallergic 

Why Museum Workers Across America Are Unionizing
     - Email/share this:     - Artnet 

Surge In Black Art Is ‘Exhilarating Sea Change’ That Made 2010s ‘Thrilling’: New York Times
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

Police To Impound Rotterdam Museum Sculptures After Church Says They Were Stolen
     - Email/share this:     - Artnet 

How The Art World Morphed Into The Art Industry
     - Email/share this:     - Artnet 

Bad Form: Company That Commissioned “Fearless Girl” Sculpture On Wall Street Sues Artist, Others Making Replicas
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Togo Has Opened Its First Major Contemporary Art Center
     - Email/share this:     - The Art Newspaper 

France Pledged Restitution Of African Artifacts. Little Has Happened Since
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Men Use Metal Detectors To Find Millions In Viking Treasure
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 

Artist’s Light Installation Lets People On Either Side Of The US/Mexico Border Talk To One Another
     - Email/share this:     - CBC 

A Massive Art Theft In Dresden Is The Biggest Heist Since WWII
     - Email/share this:     - Slate 

Making Sculpture Out Of An Ubiquitous Material – Bullets
     - Email/share this:     - The Economist 

The Talented And Busy Street Artists Of Dakar
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

This Is Gross: Severe Flooding Is Now A Tourist Attraction In Venice
     - Email/share this:     - Slate 

Finding The Art Of The ‘Real’ Moscow In Its Grim Suburbs
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MacArthur ‘Genius’ Lynda Barry Is Using Her Grant To Explore Brain Creativity
     - Email/share this:     - The Washington Post 

Origami Makes A Small, Crinkly Return
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

The Painters Reviving A 500-Year-Old Indian Art Form [VIDEO]
     - Email/share this:     - BBC 

Two UK Treasure Hunters Found A Huge Viking Hoard – And Stole It
     - Email/share this:     - The Washington Post (AP) 

Walls And Barricades Are Going Up Fast, But Just As Quickly, Artists Are Making Them Into Huge Canvases
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WORDS
 In Kodiak, Alaska, Fed-Up Residents Open Their Own Bookstore
     - Email/share this:     - Anchorage Daily News (Kodiak Daily Mirror) 

 Has Anything Truly Changed For Women Since The Shockingly Subversive Novel ‘In The Cut’?
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian (UK) 

 The Latin Dictionary That’s Been Underway For 125 Years And Isn’t Finished Yet
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

 Who Actually Wrote, Or Wrote Down, The Epic Of Gilgamesh?
     - Email/share this:     - Literary Hub 

 Heirs Of Nobel-Winning Author Naguib Mahfouz Have Been Fighting His Publisher For Years
     - Email/share this:     - Literary Hub 

 Translated Fiction Is Finding Bigger Audiences
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

 The One-Man Publisher Who’s Found An Audience For Forgotten Classics
     - Email/share this:     - Publishers Weekly 

 Women Writers Still Don’t Get Respect For Their Work
     - Email/share this:     - Irish Times 

 Struggling To Make Sense Of Today’s Politics? Fan-Fiction Might Help
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

 George Eliot Was A Translator As Well As A Novelist – And That Profoundly Affected Her Fiction
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian (UK) 

 A Bookstore Whose Nooks And Crannies Are Practically The Key To Narnia
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