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Do You Want More Audiences and Donors? 2 Arts Marketing, Development & Ticketing Conferences to Choose From!
 New York, March 16-17; Los Angeles, April 14-15. Rocket Boost Your Marketing and Fundraising Into the Next Decade and Beyond! Sign up by Jan. 31 and bring 2 colleagues for FREE! (3-for-1). Digital Marketing Skill-Building Track included! [READ MORE]
 
New Jersey Symphony Orchestra seeks Chief Financial Officer
 The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra seeks a dynamic, data-oriented, and business-minded leader with a strong record of financial planning, analysis, and accounting to serve as CFO. This person will be responsible for all aspects of financial and fiscal management of the NJSO and will be a strategic partner to the President & CEO, providing research and analysis to guide business decisions. [READ MORE]
 
Artistic Director: Australian National Academy of Music
 The Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) wishes to appoint an Artistic Director to provide exceptional leadership to Australia’s pre-eminent music performance training institution. [READ MORE]
 
Call for Applications: Master of Arts in Arts Administration at Florida State University (FSU)
 Are you passionate about the arts? Are you in search of a career full of meaning and opportunity? If so, have you considered a career in Arts Administration? [READ MORE]
 
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]
 
Boston Landmarks Orchestra Seeks Executive Director
 Boston Landmarks Orchestra seeks an inspiring leader to advance the Orchestra’s mission of building community through innovative, free classical musical programming, accessibility and inclusiveness. [READ MORE]
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opportunities
Monhegan Island Watercolor Workshop 
Join us on the beautiful “artist” island off the coast of Maine. Your chance to develop your watercolor painting skills. For beginner/ intermediate level painters. Class size limited to 10 participants [READ MORE]

jobs
Share Our Passion For The Arts! 
Junior publicists work directly under Center Theatre Group’s Head of Publicity and closely with playwrights, directors, actors as well as other theatre artists, producers and arts administrators on all of the earned media. [READ MORE]

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Étude Arts seeks Managerial Assistant/Contract Manager 
We are looking for a self-motivated, master multi-tasker - who is based in NYC - with excellent organizational skills and an upbeat attitude. [READ MORE]

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OPEN CALL FOR BLACK APPLICANTS IN THE FACULTY OF DESIGN, OCAD University 
OCAD U seeks Black candidates who can demonstrate how their lived experiences inform a deep commitment through their work to intersectional Black communities and whose theoretical, technical, and making/design expertise fulfills one or more of the current areas of need within the Faculty. [READ MORE]

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Exceptional Leadership Opportunity Executive Director of the Chicago Sinfonietta 
Since 1987, Chicago Sinfonietta has been a defiantly different kind of orchestra. The orchestra was founded by Maestro Paul Freeman to address the disconnect between the utter lack of diversity in orchestras and the vibrant, nuanced, communities for which they play. For more than 30 years, the organization has made its mission to represent the […] [READ MORE]

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Faculty of Design Associate Dean, Academic Affairs, OCAD University 
The Associate Dean champions the processes of decolonizing, Indigenous Vitalization, and diversifying the Faculty’s curriculum, as proposed in OCAD U’s developing Academic Plan. Commensurate with this opportunity is a Tenured appointment at the rank of Associate Professor. [READ MORE]

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Producer for The Perelman Performing Arts Center 
The Perelman Performing Arts Center is currently under construction at the World Trade Center. Within its three flexible and intimate performance spaces, The Perelman will produce multiple projects in theatre, dance, music and chamber opera, [READ MORE]

FROM TODAY'S ARTSJOURNAL BLOGS
Not just subconscious, but DNA deep 

When we talk about organizations, or other forms of collective action by groups of people, we often speak as if we have dominantly conscious control. But evidence from a range of disciplines suggests that we’re not really in conscious control of much — individually or collectively. – Andrew Taylor



A dip into Mexico City street music and avant-garde 

The metropolis does not have a high profile in generally accepted narrative of jazz and other progressive music, although it should: Mexico City has a thriving community of skilled, sophisticated and risk-taking musicians, having produced and attracted modernists and innovators in all the arts since at least the 1920s. – Howard Mandel




 
TODAY'S ARTS & CULTURE NEWS ~ 01/21/2020

DANCE
Computer Can Tell It’s You By The Way You Dance 
     - Email/share thisPhys.org 


IDEAS
Study: Pop Culture And Nature Seem To Evolve At The Same Rate
     - Email/share this  - Wired 

Small Talk And The Jockeying For Status
     - Email/share this  - The Point 

How Ubiquitous Public Surveillance Is Changing Our Understanding Of Human Behavior
     - Email/share this  - Vice 

Reconsidering Alan Bloom’s “Closed Minds”
     - Email/share this  - The American Interest 


ISSUES
The European Union Is Considering Banning Facial Recognition Technology For Five Years
     - Email/share this  - Fast Company 


MEDIA
Tony Hall To Step Down From Running The BBC At Critical Moment
     - Email/share this  - Washington Post (AP) 

Podcasts are Wildly Popular Right Now. Do We Care If They’re Accurate?
     - Email/share this  - Harper's 

The Quality Versus Opportunity Debate – A Predictable Oscars Ritual
     - Email/share this  - The Atlantic 

At Sundance This Year, One-Fourth Of The Documentaries Come From A New Company
     - Email/share this  - The New York Times 

Wait, ‘1917,’ It Might Be The Year Of ‘Parasite’
     - Email/share this  - Los Angeles Times 

Not Telling The Same Old Story Again And Again And Again And Again And Again
     - Email/share this  - The Guardian (UK) 


MUSIC
A Group Of Musicians Relocate To A Failing Town To Create A New Culture. Townspeople Resist
     - Email/share this  - Van 

How Did The Grammys Go From ‘Step Up’ To This CEO Implosion?
     - Email/share this  - Los Angeles Times 


PEOPLE
Alan Turing And The Shaping Of Artificial Intelligence
     - Email/share this  - The New Yorker 

Jazz Saxophonist Jimmy Heath, 93
     - Email/share this  - The New York Times 

Singer-Songwriter David Olney Says ‘I’m Sorry,’ Closes His Eyes, Drops His Head, And Dies Onstage
     - Email/share this  - The Washington Post 


THEATRE

VISUAL
Canada’s “Prairie Castles” Are Disappearing
     - Email/share this  - The Guardian 

National Archives Blurs Anti-Trump Protest Signs Of 2017 Women’s March In Exhibition
     - Email/share this  - Washington Post 

An Israeli Museum Cancelled An Artist’s Talk Because He Identifies As Palestinian
     - Email/share this  - Hyperallergic 


WORDS
 Is Amazon About To Take Over The Bestseller Book Business?
     - Email/share this  - The New Republic 

 When The Washington Post Talked About The Top Book Trends Of The Last Decade, They Went Kinda Easy On A Big (Sometimes Bad) Player
     - Email/share this  - Inside Higher Ed 

 This Author Says This Moment Isn’t As New As We Like To Think
     - Email/share this  - The Guardian (UK) 



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