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View this email in your browser Visit the ARTSJOURNAL WEBSITE for the latest news AJBlogs | Ideas | Dance | Issues | Media | Music | People | Theatre | Visual | Words | Audience This Week's Newsletter Sunday, January 12, 2025 Skip down to News PREMIUM AJ CLASSIFIEDS Reach our 30,000 subscribers - Advertise on AJ Director of Development – Glimmerglass Festival The Director of Development oversees all aspects of fundraising. [READ MORE] AJ CLASSIFIEDS Reach our 30,000 subscribers - Advertise on ArtsJournal jobs Join GTMF’s Summer Seasonal Team – MULTIPLE POSITIONS OPEN The Grand Teton Music Festival is hiring multiple seasonal employees to support our summer season! [READ MORE] jobs Executive Assistant & Board Liaison The Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF) seeks an interested individual to join its year-round staff as the Executive Assistant & Board Liaison. [READ MORE] jobs Director of Leadership Gifts – Grand Teton Music Festival Reporting to the Director of Development, the Director of Leadership Gifts is a critical new role responsible for expanding the Festival’s fundraising capacity. [READ MORE] jobs Theatre for a New Audience seeks Executive Director The Executive Director, in co-partnership with the Artistic Director, will jointly lead TFANA as it builds on its artistic vision and mission. [READ MORE] jobs Adirondack Experience seeks Director of Advancement The Director of Advancement will serve as the museum’s principal development strategist and fundraiser and will report to the Executive Director while building a network of new support for the mission of ADKX and stewarding its longtime donors. [READ MORE] jobs Associate Producer Associate Producers (APs) act as project managers and primary points of communication for a portfolio of BMP productions in development, in production, and on tour. [READ MORE] jobs Director of Blume Studios Events Blumenthal Arts seeks an innovative leader and event producer to serve as Director of Blume Studios Events. [READ MORE] jobs Technical & Facilities Manager – Brannan Center (Napa Valley) Brannan Center, a new community and performing arts center currently under construction in California's Napa Valley, is seeking a Technical & Facilities Manager [READ MORE] jobs Apply Now: Canada’s National Arts Centre Mentorship Program Play in section with Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra: June 12 to July 1, 2025 [READ MORE] jobs Senior Program Officer, Arts and Culture The Fred and Barbara Erb Family Foundation invite nominations and applications for the position of Senior Program Officer to lead strategy and management for their Arts and Culture grantmaking portfolio. [READ MORE] MOST RECENT AJBLOGS Getty Center Under Mandatory Evacuation Order As Fires Get Frighteningly Close - CultureGrrl Marianne James shares how to build intimate experiences with extraordinary artists - Aaron Dworkin New in French Translation Sinclair Beiles’s Selected Catastrophies & Other Poems - Jan Herman The Men-Women Split in Reading is Real—and Persists Amid Historical Rate Declines - Sunil Iyengar The Fires Near the Getty: Too Close for Comfort - CultureGrrl DANCE Dance Was Everywhere In Ancient Rome - Aeon Brooklyn Mack Leaves Helm Of His Hometown Ballet Company After Severe Funding Cuts - Free Times (Columbia, SC) Sadler’s Wells East, The Buzzy New Dance Venue Opening In London’s Olympic Park - The Guardian Dance Is “At An Inflection Point” In Minnesota’s Twin Cities - The Minnesota Star Tribune Women Are Losing Ground As U.S. Dance Companies Hire New Artistic Directors - Dance Data Project A Star NYCB Dancer Gets Her Hearing Back - The New York Times IDEAS Globalization Gets A Bad Rap Now. 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The Decline Of Its Audience. - Persuasion Sherlock Holmes: The Case Of The Broken Copyright System - The Atlantic The Netherlands Is Converting Its Panopticon Prisons Into Arts Hubs - The Guardian Report: Getty Villa Museum Gardens in Palisades Are On Fire - Los Angeles Times Edinburgh Festival Warns That Funding Cuts Puts Festival At Risk - The Guardian Berkeley Arts Organizations Are In Distress - BerkeleySide Ushers Vote To Authorize Strike At Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center - The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN) TikTok Creators Are In Limbo, Wondering What’s Going To Happen Next - Seattle Times (AP) Animation Seems Ripe For AI, But That’s Not To Say It’s Going To Be OK For Animators - Variety MEDIA Audiences Are Singing Along, Acting Out At “Wicked” Movie Showings - APNews Why Was The HQ Of Cape Cod’s Public Radio Station Sold Out From Under It? - Nieman Lab Ex-CEO Of MoviePass Pleads Guilty To Fraud - Deadline Why Mexicans Are Not Happy About The International Success of “Emilia Pérez” - The Guardian Hollywood Presses Pause As Wildfires Engulf LA - CNN NBCUniversal, Fox Corp., Warner Bros. Discovery, DirecTV and Comcast Team Up On New Ad Platform - Deadline Oscar Nominations Postponed Due To L.A. Fires - BBC What Two YouTubers’ Stories Tell Us About The New Economics Of Creativity - The New Yorker What MrBeast’s Game Show Says About The State Of Today’s Media - Vox Even As Hollywood Contracts, L.A. Is Going Ahead With $1 Billion “Television City” Project - Los Angeles Times (MSN) MUSIC Sam Moore, Who Died Last Week, Was One Of The Twentieth Century’s Best Performers - The Guardian (UK) Wanamaker Organ Is (Probably) Safe, Though The Macy’s Hosting It Is Closing - The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN) The Hams That Saved A Historic French Organ - Atlas Obscura Tracking The Rising Costs Of Streaming Subscriptions - Music Business Worldwide Considering (Or Not) The Politics Of Shostakovich, “The Hamlet Of Soviet Music” - San Francisco Classical Voice Mark-Anthony Turnage: Why Audiences Struggle With Contemporary Music - The Guardian “Siegfried & Roy: The Unauthorised Opera” (Yes, Really) - The Guardian The Vinyl Music Revolution Comes At Great Environmental Cost - Spin Inside The San Diego Symphony’s 104-Year-Old Organ - San Diego Union-Tribune (MSN) Spotify Is Simply Awful For Music - Washington Post (MSN) How TikTok, And Other Tech, Are Reshaping Classical Music - Daily Cal PEOPLE Daniel Harding, Conductor (Oh And Air France Pilot Too) - The New York Times Director Otto Schenk, Standardbearer For Traditional Opera Stagings, Is Dead At 94 - AP Anita Bryant, 84 - The Washington Post (MSN) Why Boulez Matters (On The 100th Anniversary Of His Birthday) - The Guardian Zeppo, The Prodigal Marx Brother - The Arts Fuse (Boston) Remembering American Avant-gardist Richard Foreman - Los Angeles Times Peter Yarrow, Of Peter, Paul And Mary, Has Died At 86 - AP How The Reviled Nietzsche Was Rehabilitated - Commonweal Friedrich St. Florian, Who Designed DC’s World War II Memorial, Has Died At 91 - The Washington Post (MSN) Novelist David Lodge Dead At 89 - BBC THEATRE Tough Times For Theatre? Right. So It’s Not A Time To Be Timid - American Theatre “Wicked” Sets New Broadway Record, Grossing Over $5 Million In One Week - TheaterMania Actor Michael Sheen Is Funding A New National Theatre For Wales - The Guardian “Show Boat,” American Theater’s Most Unstable Musical - The New York Times Is The Bay Area’s Theater Ecosystem Contracting? A Look At The Numbers - San Francisco Chronicle (MSN) Watching Master Magicians From Just Six Feet Away - The New York Times Survival Of Off-Broadway’s Signature Theatre Co. Is In “Substantial Doubt,” Finds Auditor - Broadway Journal Chicago’s Lookingglass Theatre Reopens After Hiatus And Reorganization - Playbill One Of Britain’s Best Drama Schools Is Closing Down Its Entire Undergraduate Program - The Guardian Richard Foreman, Theatre Impresario And Mysterious Playwright, Has Died At 87 - The New York Times VISUAL In Los Angeles, Artists’ Life Work Has Gone Up Into Smoke And Ashes - The New York Times Ornate 16th-Century Mural Discovered Under White Paint In Mexican Church - Artnet A Climber Drove Climbing Bolts Into Ancient Petroglyphs - Artnet Scotland’s National Galleries Warn That Major Cultural Assets Are In Peril Because Of Funding Cuts - The Scotsman With Art Sales Down, Auction Houses Pivot Towards Luxury Sales - The New York Times New Discoveries At Luxor Could “Reconstruct” History - APNews Could (Should?) Cities Be Built Of Wood? - New York Magazine (MSN) A Group Of Artists Put Up Billboards (Arty Ones) To Try To Energize Voters. Did They Succeed? - The New York Times Sally Mann Photographs Of Children Removed From Museum As Police Investigate Obscenity Charge - Glasstire Pushing Back Against The Pushback Against Social Justice and Art - The Art Newspaper Getty Images And Shutterstock To Merge Into Photo-Licensing Giant - TechCrunch AI Suggests Iconic Painting Wasn’t By Raphael - CNET Nick Cave’s $1 Million Artwork At Kansas City Airport Taken Down And Might Not Return - The Kansas City Star (Yahoo!) Did A Blockchain Billionaire Squash An Article About Him Eating Maurizio Cattelan’s Banana? - ArtNews London Relaxed Its Rules About Turning Office Blocks Into Apartments, But It’s Still Slow Going - The Guardian (UK) The Architects Were Fascists, So Should Italy Tear Their Buildings Down? - The New York Times WORDS What You Got When You Got A Letter From Edward Gorey - The Paris Review British Fiction Generated Record Sales In 2024 - The Bookseller Explaining Substack - Quartz How Zora Neale Hurston’s Final Novel Finally Made It Into Print - NPR Ingesting Writing For Translation, Transformation - Asymptote Journal Human Use Of Alphabets May Be Much Older Than We Thought - Hyperallergic Why Do Some Right-Wingers Get Fixated On Epic Poems? - The Nation Cynthia Ozick’s Ode To, And Lament For, The Written Letter - Harper's Study: No, Monkeys Couldn’t Randomly Manage To Type Shakespeare - The New York Times An Alternative History Of The 20th Century Literary Canon - New Statesman Grace Glueck On Discovering Yourself Through Writing - The New Yorker Is It Really True That Men Aren’t Reading Books? - Vox Speed-Novelist: Just How Was Barry Malzberg Able To Be So Prolific? - The Nation How Do You Write, And Draw, To Keep A Baby’s Attention? - The New York Times Happy reading! 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