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Finance Director, MCC Theater
 MCC Theater seeks a skilled, proactive and creative Director of Finance as an integral part of the organization’s senior leadership team. This newly created position has responsibility for management, reporting and analysis of all financial activities, and will play a key a role in strategic planning. The Director of Finance will report to the Executive […] [READ MORE]
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Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer 
The Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) is responsible for planning, implementing, overseeing, and assessing Jacksonville Symphony’s marketing, branding, public relations, and audience development plans in support of the organization’s strategic vision and growth. Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) as a key member of the leadership team, the CMO will be responsible […] [READ MORE]

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Marketing, Technology and Digital Director 
The Marketing, Technology and Digital Director’s primary responsibility is the strategic development, execution, and deployment of communications, consistent with the growth and impact goals of the ASO’s 5-Year Strategic Initiatives. [READ MORE]

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Sr. Marketing Director, Ambassador Theatre Group, San Antonio 
IN SEARCH OF INSPIRATION? The historic Majestic & Empire Theatres in the heart of downtown San Antonio, Texas have long inspired audiences, artists and team members. [READ MORE]

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Celebrity Series of Boston — Community Performances Manager (Neighborhood Arts) 
An open part time job in the Community department at Celebrity Series [READ MORE]

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Senior Director of Operations & Human Resources 
This position will have broad responsibility for Gibney’s facilities, human resources, and general operations. [READ MORE]

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Vice President, Philanthropy 
Join the global team powering the business of arts and culture! [READ MORE]

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Vancouver Maritime Museum – Executive Director 
For more than 60 years Vancouver Maritime Museum (VMM) has been sharing stories about maritime heritage in British Columbia and the Canadian Arctic that reflect a diverse range of voices. [READ MORE]

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SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVAL Executive Director 
Savannah Music Festival seeks an Executive Director, to provide leadership so the organization can continue to realize its vision, fulfill its mission, and achieve its goals for artistic success, financial stability, and community engagement. [READ MORE]

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Director of Finance, School of American Ballet at Lincoln Center 
The Director of Finance is a key member of the School of American Ballet’s senior leadership team, overseeing the School’s financial strategy and operations and ensuring the fiscal integrity and vitality of the organization [READ MORE]

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OMAHA COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE Artistic Director 
OMAHA COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE (OCP) in Omaha, NE invites qualified candidates to submit applications to become its next Artistic Director. Leading the artistic life of OCP, the nation’s largest community theatre, carries with it the rich traditions of nearly 100 years of history along with community hopes for a future that uses the power of theatre […] [READ MORE]

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Director, Mannes Prep 
Founded in 1916 by the legendary musicians and music educators David and Clara Mannes, Mannes Prep is a vital provider of pre-collegiate music education programs for students ages 4-18. [READ MORE]

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Chief Development Officer, Harlem School of the Arts 
Harlem School of the Arts (HSA) is one of New York City’s pioneering art institutions and a cultural cornerstone of the community. [READ MORE]

FROM TODAY'S ARTSJOURNAL BLOGS
The WPA is history 

New York City has announced a new program, City Artist Corps, inspired by FDR’s Works Progress Administration. There are two major problems with launching a WPA-styled policy in 2021, one in terms of the choice of policy, and one in terms of the very conception of arts policy. Let’s look at these in turn. – Michael Rushton



A Soldier’s Tale for Today — Premiered 

As I put it in a program note: “It’s a COVID-period entertainment: compact, flexible, rejecting Romantic symphonic upholstery in favor of a dry, caustic sonority conducive to bitter entertainments, light-hearted yet not evasive.” – Joseph Horowitz




 
TODAY'S ARTS & CULTURE NEWS ~ 05/12/2021

DANCE
World Dance? Seriously? 
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IDEAS
Want Certainty? (It Might Not Be Good For You)
     - Email/share this  - American Scholar 


ISSUES
New Research: Angkor Wat Population Was Greater Than Modern Boston
     - Email/share this  - Artnet 

How To Grapple With An Artist’s Legacy When You’re Responsible For It?
     - Email/share this  - American Theatre 

Performance Venues And Museums In UK May Reopen Next Monday (Though Many Will Not)
     - Email/share this  - BBC 

UK Government Slashes Funding For “Creative Subjects” In Universities
     - Email/share this  - BBC 


MEDIA
Maybe Hollywood Could Just Give Up On The Golden Globes Entirely
     - Email/share this  - New York Times 

Berlin Film Festival Will Get A Live Version This Year After All — Outdoors
     - Email/share this  - Reuters 

More Trouble For Golden Globes As NBC Drops Broadcast
     - Email/share this  - Variety 


MUSIC
Conductor Christian Thielemann Is Losing His Job
     - Email/share this  - MDR (Leipzig) 

Houston Symphony’s Music Director, Stranded In Europe By Pandemic, Misses Last Two Weeks Of Season
     - Email/share this  - Houston Chronicle 

Songwriters Are Getting Screwed By Streaming Too
     - Email/share this  - The New York Times 


PEOPLE
Balanchine’s Biggest Fan – Nancy Lassalle, 93
     - Email/share this  - The New York Times 

Architect Helmut Jahn, 81, Killed In Bicycle-Car Collision
     - Email/share this  - CNN 


THEATRE
Scotland Says Theatres Can Reopen. Theatres Say “No”
     - Email/share this  - The Guardian 

A Musical About COVID, Titled ‘Breathe’
     - Email/share this  - New York Times 

Andrew Lloyd Webber Restores/Updates London’s Oldest Theatre, Built in 1663
     - Email/share this  - The New Yorker 


VISUAL
‘Irreparable Damage’ — Scholars Protest Newark Museum’s Plan To Deaccession Artworks
     - Email/share this  - Artnet 

Penn State University To Build Largest Art Museum Between Philadelphia And Pittsburgh
     - Email/share this  - Philadelphia Inquirer 


WORDS
 Fear My Book? Ban My Book?
     - Email/share this  - The New York Times 

 Powell’s Books Union Protests Store’s Rehiring Practices
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 The Point Of The Point Magazine
     - Email/share this  - LitHub 

 Setting Of James Joyce’s ‘The Dead’ Is Being Turned Into A Hostel, Sending Literary Folk Into A Tizzy
     - Email/share this  - New York Times 



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