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The Phoenix Chorale seeks an Executive Director

The Phoenix Chorale seeks an individual with a passion for the arts with vision and commitment to bring the Chorale to new and lasting vitality to serve as its new Executive Director. The Executive Director will work alongside the Artistic Director to drive the mission of the organization and to help further the artistic vision and goals of the Artistic Director. The Executive Director is responsible for the management of all development and administrative functions related to the daily opera...
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Director, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

Are you an influencer and collaborator? Thought leader? Have experience with equity, diversity and inclusion work? We are looking for candidates who are excited about organizational culture change and can be a leader in this effort for North America’s largest theatre company – the Stratford Festival. DIRECTOR, EQUITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION Are you an influencer and collaborator? Thought leader? Have experience with equity, diversity and inclusion work? We are looking for candidates who a...
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Creative Industries, Professors of the Practice, Tulane University

Be Part of a Team to Foster Future Leaders in Media, Performance, Arts The School of Liberal Arts seeks to hire up to three faculty to join one of the fastest growing undergraduate programs at Tulane. The newly rebranded Strategy, Leadership and Analytics Minor (SLAM) is an interdisciplinary program that helps prepare liberal arts students for careers of the future. We are looking for dynamic faculty with a range of professional experiences and committed to a liberal arts approach to help stu...
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Books: Oudolf Update

Even if you already have the original of this book, you'll want to consider this new, expanded paperback version that includes 13 recent projects shown here for the first time, along with Piet Oudolf's new strategies for design and plant selection. Among the new gardens featured in Hummelo: A Journey... [Author: Jane Berger]
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What “Hamlet” Suggests About Trump’s Impeachment Trial

Rereading “Hamlet” after the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, I was struck by how fears of insurrection permeate the play. Every age sees itself in Shakespeare’s tragedy, but little did I expect to be reminded of the recent uprising and its poisonous politics when returning to this most philosophical of revenge dramas. – Los Angeles Times
Tags: Art, Theatre, Los Angeles, Shakespeare, 02.07.21

Our Inner Critics – Ignore Or Be Guided?

“The inner voice, which is also an inward-turning voice, tends to linger over negative content. What’s more, it can call our attention to processes that run more smoothly in the dark, deconstructing what should be seamless movement into a broken jumble of steps.” – The New Yorker
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Indie Bookstores Invested In Online Sales… And It Has Paid Off

Their embrace of internet sales appears to have paid off, allowing them to meet surging demand spurred by the Black Lives Matter movement and the holiday shopping season, cementing the loyalty of longtime customers while reaching new ones, and succeeding in taking back dollars that were previously lost to online competitors. – Publishers Weekly
Tags: Art, Words, 02.05.21

Why The California Attorney General Is Investigating The San Francisco Art Institute

The attorney general does not comment on ongoing audits, but Hyperallergic has acquired documents raising questions about board member self-interest and misuse of tax-exempt bonds that nonprofit attorneys interviewed by Hyperallergic say are within the office’s investigative scope. The documents shed light on the school’s debt-financed expansion into Fort Mason that jeopardized SFAI’s original campus on Chestnut Street and its prized Diego Rivera mural. – Hyperallergic
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Cricut Explore Air 2 Cutting Machine with Starter Kit only $235.97 Shipped at QVC! (reg. $275.97)

  If you love Cricut, don’t miss this deal! Get the Cricut Explore Air 2 Cutting Machine with Starter Kit Bundle for only $235.97 Shipped at QVC with this Weekly Special Value (reg. $275.97) This bundle is priced at $229 (reg. $259), plus reduced shipping of $6.97 (reg. $16.97)! Available in Blue or Mint. Plus,... Read More
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Oscar-Winning Screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière Dead At 89

He wrote the screenplays for a remarkable number of important films: Luis Buñuel’s The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Belle de Jour, and That Obscure Object of Desire; The Tin Drum; The Unbearable Lightness of Being; Cyrano de Bergerac; The Return of Martin Guerre; ulian Schnabel’s Vincent van Gogh biopic At Eternity’s Gate. In addition, he was a professor, a novelist, and the playwright responsible for director Peter Brook’s nine-hour stage adaptation of the Hindu epic Mahabharata. – The H...
Tags: Art, People, Peter Brook, Vincent Van Gogh, Martin Guerre, Jean Claude Carrière, Cyrano de Bergerac, Belle de Jour, Luis Buñuel, Schnabel, 02.08.21

Famed Broadway Restaurateur Joe Allen, 87

In a city that devours restaurants the way diners down hamburgers, Mr. Allen founded and ran not just one successful New York restaurant but two: Joe Allen and Orso, next to each other on West 46th Street, between Eighth and Ninth Avenues. The street would later develop a certain cachet and even got its own name: Restaurant Row. But when Mr. Allen opened Joe Allen in 1965, the neighborhood, close to a then-squalid Times Square, was hardly a prime location. – The New York Times
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An ‘Intersectional Trainwreck’ — Alex Ross On ‘The Great Gay Jewish Poetry Brawl Of 1821’

“In the shouty Valhalla of pointlessly destructive literary feuds, a place of honor must go to the verbal duel between the poets Heinrich Heine and August von Platen, which amused and disgusted the German literary world in 1829. Two outsiders — a Jew and a homosexual — resorted to crude stereotypes as they attempted to eject each other from an establishment that might rather have dispensed with both of them.” – The New Yorker
Tags: Art, Words, Alex Ross, Valhalla, Heinrich Heine, 02.05.21

In Seattle, Music Venues Can Now Reopen. Few Are Choosing To Do So

Thus far, only a few local music venues have signaled their interest in reopening under present conditions. In a statement on its website, the Washington Nightlife Music Association — a coalition of independent club owners — said many venues will opt to remain closed, citing safety concerns and a number of requirements, including a 25% capacity limit that “is not cost-effective for most venue operations or equitable” for ticket pricing. – Seattle Times
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Fox News’s Response To Smartmatic’s $2.7 Billion Lawsuit: Don’t Blame Us, Blame Trump’s Lawyers (And Besides, First Amendment)

In the network’s motion to dismiss the voting company’s defamation lawsuit — which alleges that Fox News and three of its hosts knowingly spread a false conspiracy theory that Smartmatic’s tabulation software (with the help of the late Hugo Chávez) changed vote totals — Fox’s attorneys argue that any allegation, no matter how bizarre, by a President or his representatives is inherently newsworthy and the network has a protected right and duty to present it. – The Hollywood Reporter
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NY Governor Cuomo Says Broadway May Reopen Soon

“Would I go see a play and sit in a playhouse with 150 people? If the 150 people were tested, and they were all negative, yes, I would do that,” Cuomo said during a press briefing. “I think reopening with testing is going to be the key.” – CNBC
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Pianist Lara Downes Is Reviving The Work Of Black Composers And Reframing The History Of American Classical Music

Her project, called Rising Sun Music, “is a series of newly recorded works written by black composers — including many works that have never been recorded before — performed by Downes with guest artists. She plans to release one song per week to streaming platforms, with a new theme every month, beginning February 5.” – Smithsonian Magazine
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California’s Gig Worker Law Is Hurting Artists

Used to hiring artists who work as independent contractors in exchange for program or project fees, it’s been tough for these small nonprofit arts groups in particular to adapt to AB5, the labor law intended to give the state’s workers more benefits by preventing employers from misclassifying them as contractors in order to save money. – KQED
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Governor And Mayor Announce Programs To Revive New York’s Live Performance Industry

And, given the notorious personal relationship between the two men, it’s no surprise that their plans are entirely separate. Governor Cuomo’s scheme, called NY PopsUp, will consist of 300 free events over the next 100 days and 1,000 by Labor Day, many featuring very well-known artists, at “existing landscapes” throughout the state. Mayor de Blasio’s program, called Open Culture NYC, is a streamlined permitting program for institutions to present outdoor performances (socially distanced, of cour...
Tags: Art, New York, De Blasio, Issues, Cuomo, 02.08.21

First Arab Woman To Direct A Feature Film, Moufida Tlatli, Dead At 73

“[She] remains best known for her breakthrough 1994 feature The Silences of the Palace, a lyrical study of a woman’s return to an abandoned royal residence, which tackled the themes of exploitation and trauma as experienced across generations of Arab women. It won a string of international awards.” – The Guardian
Tags: Art, People, 02.09.21

To Deaccession Or Not, And Why? Museum World’s Long Argument About This Is Now Playing Out In Public

Once the AAMD, looking at the financial carnage wrought by COVID, relaxed its strict rule about museums selling their art only in order to acquire other art, the sales started — with major museums in Brooklyn, Syracuse, the Berkshires, and, above all, Baltimore drawing a huge amount of scrutiny, more than a little condemnation, and even (though it’s not loud) some support. Andrew Russeth reports. – ARTnews
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The Problem With Hygiene Theatre

If hygiene theater were actual theater, it would exist in the genre of catastrophic improv. Hundreds of millions of people are ad-libbing their way through a crisis in the absence of a clear script. That script could begin something like this: The best defenses against an airborne virus are masks, social distancing, and ventilation—at least until you can get a vaccine—not gloves and bleach. – The Atlantic
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Germany Earmarks Another €1 Billion In COVID Relief To Its Arts Sector

“This marks the second chapter of the so-called ‘Neustart Kultur’ program (New Start Culture), which was first launched last July with a bailout of €1 billion dispersed across cultural sectors in the nation of 83 million. The program consists over 60 sub-programs and supports cinemas, museums, theaters, and other venues and creatives.” – Artnet
Tags: Art, Germany, Issues, 02.04.21

Louvre’s New Conservation Facility Will Hold One-Third Of The Museum’s Entire Collection

The Louvre Conservation Center, located in Liévin (20 miles or so southwest of Lille), “has six storage areas, including dry, low-humidity areas for metalworks, a photography studio, workshop rooms, a varnishing booth, and study space. The center has large windows for natural light, and the rooftop garden features 27 seed varieties. More than 5,000 plants have been sown around the building.” – Architectural Digest
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Paris Opera Ballet Publishes Report On Race In Company, And Management Will Act On It

“‘There will be no blackface, or yellowface,’ [Paris Opera artistic director Alexander] Neef told reporters, but works like La Bayadère and The Nutcracker would remain, with possible further changes in choreography and costumes. Behind the scenes, there will be efforts to increase the number of dancers of color who enter the ballet’s ranks.” – The New York Times
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Broadway’s Shutdown Has A Long Economic Reach

“By one count, Broadway is directly responsible for nearly 100,000 jobs in New York City alone and, as a leading attraction for people who travel to the city, it has an economic impact of nearly $15 billion.” (video plus transcript) – PBS NewsHour
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How Norman Rockwell Used Photographs to Create His Famous Paintings: See Side-by-Side Comparisons

More than 40 years after Norman Rockwell’s death, the question of whether his paintings are realistic or unrealistic remains open for debate. On one hand, critical opinion has long dismissed his Saturday Evening Post-adorning visions of American life as sheerest fantasy. “A little girl with a black eye, an elderly woman saying grace with her grandson, a boy going to war: Rockwellian scenes represent a certain sentimental America — an ideal America, or at least Rockwell’s ideal,” says a 2009 NPR...
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Robert Spano Appointed Music Director The Fort Worth Symphony

Spano, 59, is best known for his 20 seasons as music director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, a position he’s leaving in June. Since 2011 he has also been music director of the prestigious Aspen Music Festival and School in Colorado. Before Atlanta, he quickly rose to national attention as music director of the Brooklyn Philharmonic in New York, where his adventurous programming drew critical acclaim. – Dallas Morning News
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Inspirational quotes from famous people on the autism spectrum

Autism (commonly referred to as ASD, autism spectrum disorder) refers to a broad range of conditions characterized by challenges with social skills, repetitive behaviors, speech, and nonverbal communication.The effects of ASD and the severity of symptoms can be very different in each person. Additionally, these things can also change over time. This is why it's considered a spectrum.Many people with ASD gift the world with inventions or new ways of thinking. Judy Singer, for example, is the woma...
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Rembrandt and slavery: did the great painter have links to this abhorrent trade?

No artist is more celebrated for their compassion and empathy. So why has the Dutch master’s work been included in a shocking new show linking art and the slave trade?The title of the show is simple and stark: Slavery. Due to open this spring at the mighty Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, this bold exhibition documents the importance of this abhorrent trade in the rise and wealth of the Netherlands, by juxtaposing shackles and slave inventories with works of art. There is a metal ring that has been in ...
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‘How many husbands have I had? Not enough!’ Vanessa Redgrave meets Miriam Margolyes

They have been friends for 50 years. With theatres closed, they reflect on the joy – and hidden drama – of a life in actingTheatres around the UK have been kept dark by Covid, and it could be months before they are able to open. So we’re celebrating the stage by bringing together some of our greatest actors to share highs and lows from their careers, what they have learned from performing and how they feel about theatre’s precarious future. Vanessa Redgrave and Miriam Margolyes, mates for 50-odd...
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