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Michigan Opera Theatre seeks Director of Marketing and Communication
 With the appointment of Artistic Director Yuval Sharon and Associate Artistic Director Christine Goerke, MOT’s Director of Marketing and Communications is crucial in expressing the company's commitment to re-define the experience of opera in Detroit. [READ MORE]
 
Position Available: Chief Financial Officer, Washington Performing Arts
 Washington Performing Arts, one of the nation’s premier performing arts producers and presenters, seeks a Chief Financial Officer who is a strong financial manager, collaborator, and strategic thinker. [READ MORE]
 
Manager of Corporate Relations, TN Performing Arts Center
 Now Hiring: Manager of Corporate Relations [READ MORE]
 
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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Enrollment and Engagement Lead, Evening Division position available at The Juilliard School 
The Enrollment and Engagement Lead is responsible for the enrollment and student recruitment of the Evening Division, and supports the leadership, management, and artistic direction of Juilliard ’s continuing education and non-matriculating programs throughout the year. Only candidates that submit a resume and cover letter, indicating salary requirements will be considered. Responsibilities (essential functions): Ensures […] [READ MORE]

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National Dance Institute – Executive Director 
National Dance Institute (NDI) believes that the arts have a unique power to engage all children and motivate them toward excellence. [READ MORE]

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Exceptional Opportunity in Human Resource Leadership 
The Director of Human Resources will develop and coordinate all policies and activities of Human Resources, encouraging a collaborative culture and supportive environment. [READ MORE]

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PlayPenn – Artistic Director 
Since its inception in 2004, PlayPenn has been nationally recognized for its dedication to the development of new plays and playwrights in the heart of Philadelphia. [READ MORE]

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Capitol Center for the Arts – Executive Director 
Located in the state capital of Concord, the Capitol Center for the Arts (CCA) has grown to become New Hampshire’s premier center for the performing arts. [READ MORE]

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Marcus Performing Arts Center – Vice President of Venue Operations 
Established in 1969, the Marcus Performing Arts Center (Marcus Center) is the premier performing arts community gathering space in Southeastern Wisconsin [READ MORE]

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Mixed Blood Artistic Director 
Mixed Blood is seeking a full-time Artistic Director to succeed the founding director and lead the organization into its next iteration. [READ MORE]

FROM TODAY'S ARTSJOURNAL BLOGS
At last! Live music, pure and uncompromised 

My first visit to the kind of concert that could’ve happened before March of 2020: the bold pianist Beth Levin at Bargemusic in Brooklyn. – David Patrick Stearns



Malik Robinson discusses the important role of dance 

The Executive Director of Cleo Parker Robinson Dance and Chair of the Board of DanceUSA speaks about the place of the art form in our ever-changing world. – Aaron Dworkin



Arts Business Ownership – Statistics on Race, Ethnicity, and Gender 

In the U.S. there are limited public data on the demographics of leadership and staff (as opposed to artists and participants) at arts organizations. Absent these statistics, one of our analysts turned to the Annual Business Survey (ABS), a collaboration between the U.S. Census Bureau and the National Science Foundation. – Sunil Iyengar



Meddling With Medici at the Met: Provocations & Proclamations 

The Medici: Portraits and Politics, at the Metropolitan Museum to Oct. 11, is a curatorial tour de force that only a scholar like Keith Christiansen could pull off. With his retirement today today after 43 years at the Met, this show is his swansong at the museum. – Lee Rosenbaum



Tania León interview, 1989 

The 2021 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for music composition has not often been interviewed in the popular press, so here’s a Q&A I conducted with her as published in 1989 by Ear magazine. – Howard Mandel




 
TODAY'S ARTS & CULTURE NEWS ~ 07/06/2021

DANCE
Yeah, Well — We’re A Sucker For Those Dancing Robot Videos – This Time With BTS 
     - Email/share thisThe Verge 

The New Hotness In Exotic Dance? Lesbian Doms Performing For Straight Women 
     - Email/share thisSlate 

Lucinda Childs At ’81 On Paper’ 
     - Email/share thisThe Guardian 

San Francisco Ballet’s Executive Director Up And Quits 
     - Email/share thisSan Francisco Chronicle 

Inside The Workshop Where Some Of The World’s Best Pointe Shoes Are Made 
     - Email/share thisBusiness Insider 

Choreographer Jan Fabre To Stand Trial For Abuse Of Power, Sexual Harassment 
     - Email/share thisThe Bulletin (Belgium) 

They’re Back To Dancing At Jacob’s Pillow, Even If It’s All Outdoors 
     - Email/share thisMSN (Washington Post) 

Sudden Move: Oregon Ballet Theatre Ousts Artistic Director 
     - Email/share thisOregon Arts Watch 

Diverse Dance Companies Suddenly Have A Wealthy New Benefactor 
     - Email/share thisThe New York Times 


IDEAS
Martha Nussbaum And The Striving In Structures
     - Email/share this  - New York Review of Books 

Why We Need Distrust In Our Civic Discourse
     - Email/share this  - Psyche 

Memory Champ: Trick Your Brain To Remember
     - Email/share this  - Wired 

How Ancient Humans Adapted To Be Smart
     - Email/share this  - Nautilus 

How To Tell If You’re Part Of A Cult
     - Email/share this  - The New Republic 

How People Come To Deny Science
     - Email/share this  - The Conversation 

The Internet Is Rotting. What To Do?
     - Email/share this  - The Atlantic 

Using Novels To Predict The Next War
     - Email/share this  - The Guardian 

Turns Out AI Can Be Pretty Easily Fooled By Patterns
     - Email/share this  - Quanta 

Suffering Under The Weight Of Happiness
     - Email/share this  - The Atlantic 


ISSUES
Does It Matter Where Arts Funding Comes From?
     - Email/share this  - ArtsHub 

How Charleston Is Finally Reckoning With Its History In The Slave Trade
     - Email/share this  - National Geographic 

It’s The Chinese Communist Party’s 100th Birthday, And Socialist Realism Is Back
     - Email/share this  - The New York Times 

An NFT Of The Internet’s Source Code Sells For $5.4 Million
     - Email/share this  - ARTnews 

New York’s First Queer History Museum Will Be Hosted By New York’s First Museum Of Any Kind
     - Email/share this  - The New York Times 

David Frum: Why Are States Turning Against Academic Testing?
     - Email/share this  - The Atlantic 

How Artists Are Using Tech/How Tech Is Art
     - Email/share this  - NEA 

Why The Minister Who Slashed Britain’s Funding Of Museums Is Now Chairman Of Its Biggest One
     - Email/share this  - The Guardian 

YouTube Buys Naming Rights For New 6000-Seat Theatre In LA
     - Email/share this  - Variety 

Philadelphia’s Annenberg Center Changes Name
     - Email/share this  - MSN (Philadelphia Inquirer) 


MEDIA
Tik Tok – Now Three Times As Long?
     - Email/share this  - The Hollywood Reporter 

Hollywood Battles With Insurers Over COVID Claims
     - Email/share this  - The Hollywood Reporter 

Bollywood Isn’t Nimble Enough To Have Made COVID Films Already, But This Indian Film Industry Is
     - Email/share this  - The Guardian 

Let’s Talk About Green Things In Movies (Fascinating)
     - Email/share this  - The New York Times 

No Surprise: European Movie Box Office Down 70 Percent Last Year
     - Email/share this  - The Hollywood Reporter 

Let’s Give Mae West Credit As The Auteur She Was
     - Email/share this  - The New York Times 

Steady And Strong: The State Of Public Media Over The Past Decade
     - Email/share this  - Inside Radio 

Fox News To Pay $1 Million Fine To New York City
     - Email/share this  - The Daily Beast 

An Intimacy Coordinator Explains How Exactly He Works On Set
     - Email/share this  - Slate 

Judge Strikes Down Feds’ Monopoly Case Against Facebook
     - Email/share this  - The New York Times 


MUSIC
San Diego Opera In Its Best Financial Shape Ever
     - Email/share this  - San Diego Union-Tribune 

How Do You Prove Opera Singers Can Act? Put Them In ‘King Lear’
     - Email/share this  - The Guardian 

Daniele Gatti To Succeed Zubin Mehta In Florence
     - Email/share this  - Opera Wire 

The Maestro Who’s Bringing Period Instruments To Ravel, Mahler, And Stravinsky
     - Email/share this  - The New York Times 

Storm Blows Roof Off Stuttgart’s Opera House
     - Email/share this  - AP 

Houston Grand Opera Names New General Director, Opera San Jose’s Khori Dastoor
     - Email/share this  - San Francisco Chronicle 

Juilliard Pulls Video Of Zukerman’s Racist Masterclass
     - Email/share this  - The New York Times 

Watching Pinchas Zukerman’s Offensive Juilliard Masterclass In Real Time
     - Email/share this  - Violinist.com 

To Protect Your Orchestra Players From COVID, Change Their Layout: Study
     - Email/share this  - Smithsonian Magazine 

Lyric Opera Of Chicago Sees Reason, Will Have Intermissions
     - Email/share this  - Yahoo! (Chicago Tribune) 


PEOPLE
Discovered: Evidence Van Gogh Was A Founder Of A Brass Band (Still Playing Today)
     - Email/share this  - The Art Newspaper 

Composer Louis Andriessen Dead At 82
     - Email/share this  - NPR 

‘La Madre De La Telenovela’, Delia Fiallo, Dead At 96
     - Email/share this  - MSN (Washington Post) 

This Is The Reason Bill Cosby Got To Walk Out Of Prison
     - Email/share this  - The New York Times 

James Cuno Steps Down As Head Of Getty
     - Email/share this  - ARTnews 

Children’s Author Patricia Reilly Giff, Who Wrote The Kids Of The Polk Street School Series, Dead At 86
     - Email/share this  - MSN (Washington Post) 

Louise Bourgeois And Her Exploration Of Pain
     - Email/share this  - The Yale Review 

Pulitzer-Winning Poet Stephen Dunn Dead At 82
     - Email/share this  - MSN (Washington Post) 

Jon Hassell, Trumpeter And Composer, 84
     - Email/share this  - The New York Times 


THEATRE
What Makes Aristophanes Relevant Today? Call It ‘Patriotic Obscenity’
     - Email/share this  - Los Angeles Review of Books 

So Yale Theatre School Tuition Will Be Free. Is This A Good Thing?
     - Email/share this  - Chicago Tribune  

How Do You Prove Opera Singers Can Act? Put Them In ‘King Lear’
     - Email/share this  - The Guardian 

Chicago Tribune Puts Theater Critic Chris Jones In Charge Of Editorial Page
     - Email/share this  - Robert Feder 

Co-Founder Of Philly’s Wilma Theater To Depart After 40 Years
     - Email/share this  - Philadelphia Inquirer 

Here’s What Will Be At The First Post-COVID Edinburgh Fringe
     - Email/share this  - BBC 

David Geffen Gives $150 Million To Make Yale Drama School Tuition Free
     - Email/share this  - The New York Times 

‘Hamilton’ Has Grossed $650 Million. Why Did It Get At Least $30 Million In Pandemic Relief?
     - Email/share this  - New York Times 

Broadway’s ‘Harry Potter And The Cursed Child’ To Be Cut By Half
     - Email/share this  - New York Times 

LA’s Echo Theater: 25 Years As A Hotbed Of Offbeat New Work
     - Email/share this  - Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times) 


VISUAL
Gap In Museum Pay Is Widening
     - Email/share this  - Hyperallergic 

A Deep Dive Into The Ancient Egyptian Tombs At Saqqara
     - Email/share this  - Smithsonian Magazine 

Stolen Picasso, Mondrian Found In Ravine In Greece
     - Email/share this  - The New York Times 

How The Pandemic Has/Is Changing The Ways We Look At Art
     - Email/share this  - Artnet 

Florida Man Says He’s The One Who Invented Invisible Sculpture, May Sue Artist Who Just Sold One
     - Email/share this  - Artnet 

Banksy “Adjustment” Of Mount Rainier Painting Sells For $6 Million
     - Email/share this  - Seattle Times 

Artworks Leaving UK As Museums Deal With Cash Shortage
     - Email/share this  - The Art Newspaper 

What To Do With All Those Empty NYC Storefronts? Put Art In Them
     - Email/share this  - Christian Science Monitor 

The Shed Wants You To Play Pokémon Go On The High Line, But With Art And Not Cartoons
     - Email/share this  - New York Times 

Dutch Government Makes Big Change In Restitution Of Nazi-Looted Art
     - Email/share this  - Artnet 


WORDS
 New York Times Experiments With Insta/Twitter To Focus Stories
     - Email/share this  - NiemanLab 

 This Flight Attendant Wrote A Hair-Raising Novel By Jotting It On Cocktail Napkins
     - Email/share this  - The New York Times 

 Why Writers Need Agents
     - Email/share this  - The Guardian 

 A Battle Between Under-40s And Over-40s At Publishing Houses
     - Email/share this  - The Observer 

 Donald Barthelme, Maybe The Least Likely New Yorker Writer Ever
     - Email/share this  - Literary Hub 

 Book Sales Soar Year-Over-Year (Duh!)
     - Email/share this  - Publishers Weekly 

 A New American Heroine: Sapphire’s ‘Push’ At 25
     - Email/share this  - The Guardian 

 Louis Menand Takes On O. Henry
     - Email/share this  - The New Yorker 

 A Social History Of The Asterisk
     - Email/share this  - Lapham's Quarterly 



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