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Sunday, April 7, 2024
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Artistic Director – Alabama Shakespeare Festival


 As a beloved Alabama arts institution, ASF broadens the cultural identity of the South by producing classics, Shakespeare, contemporary plays, musicals, theatre for young audiences, and exciting new works. [READ MORE]
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Signature Theatre NYC seeks next Artistic Director 

The Artistic Director will design and implement Signature’s artistic vision, curating an exciting and diverse season of productions that is in alignment with its organizational mission. [READ MORE]

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Job Alert: Baltimore School for the Arts, Foundation Director 

The Baltimore School for the Arts Foundation is the fundraising partner of the Baltimore School for the Arts. [READ MORE]

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Executive Director of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center 

They will be accountable for a strategic direction, business model, and adaptive change that are in alignment with the Institute’s Rensselaer Forward plan. [READ MORE]

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Executive Leadership at Alternate ROOTS 

Executive Leadership plays the pivotal role in ensuring fruitful collaboration among members, staff, and Executive Committee – the Alternate ROOTS community. [READ MORE]

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Chief Programming and Engagement Officer 

Pittsburgh Cultural Trust (PCT or the Trust), one of the nation’s premier arts presenters and a major catalytic influence in the city of Pittsburgh, seeks a chief programming and engagement officer (CPEO). [READ MORE]

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Payroll/HR Administrator, Mark Morris Dabce Group 

SUMMARY DESCRIPTION: This position supports the entire organization, interacting regularly with all supervisors as well as all employees and independent contractors. In addition to superb attention to detail and accuracy, excellent interpersonal and communication skills are critical to the success of this role. Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer and working closely with the HR […] [READ MORE]

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ART JEWELRY FORUM SEEKS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 

Art Jewelry Forum is an international organization with a mission to advocate for the international field of contemporary art jewelry through education, appreciation, and support for the field. [READ MORE]

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Associate Vice President of Advancement Operations 

The AVP is responsible for leading administrative and financial operations, database use and management, data integrity, software use and management, and development of procedures, protocols, and processes. [READ MORE]

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Executive Director, Institute for Contemporary Art 

The ICA has become a focal point of Richmond’s energetic arts district, serving as a nexus for creativity and inclusion, where innovative thinking and transformational ideas are drawn from a spectrum of disciplines. [READ MORE]

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Assistant Teaching Professor of Dance 

The Department of Theatre & Dance at UC San Diego invites exceptional dance educators and dance makers who emphasize interdisciplinary methodologies and whose research is rooted in African and Afro-Diasporic experiences and practices that are varyingly multiracial, trans-geographic and intersectional. [READ MORE]

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Director of Artistic Operations 

The Knights are a collective of adventurous musicians dedicated to transforming the orchestral experience and eliminating barriers between audiences and music. [READ MORE]

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Vice President of Communications, Marketing, & Sales 

MIDLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS (MIDLAND, MI) is in search of a Vice President of Communications, Marketing, & Sales [READ MORE]

 

MOST RECENT AJBLOGS

Alex Laing talks about the impact of the Gateways Spring Festival

- Aaron Dworkin

Performing Arts “Crossover” Strategies Fail to Diversify Core Audiences, According to New Report

- Sunil Iyengar

On Bravery, with Stefanie Londino

- Katie Birenboim

The Chicago Symphony Lands Klaus Makela

- Joe Horowitz

Now Available (Almost) WorldwideLondon Literary Critic Calls Them ‘Dark Diamonds’

- Jan Herman


 

 

DANCE

How To Train Dancers In Acting Skills

- Dance Magazine


With A Permanent CEO, New Leadership At Cleveland Ballet Intends To Turn The Page

- WEWS News 5 Cleveland


The Legal Issues Involved With A Ballet Company’s Rehearsals

- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette


As Ailey II Turns 50, There’s Plenty To Be Proud Of

- The New York Times


IDEAS

The Coddling Of The Undergraduate?

- Hedgehog Review


We’re Obsessed With Stories About The End Of The World. But Then We Always Have Been

- Literary Review


We All Have Rights, Right? Well…

- 3 Quarks Daily


We’re Obsessed With Dystopias Of The Future. What About Protopias?

- NPR


Our Achievement Culture Is Not Healthy

- Psyche


The False Promises Of Being More Productive

- Esquire


Today Isn’t The Only Day To Avoid Getting Tricked Online

- NPR


Julia Louis-Dreyfus Thinks We Should Be Listening To Older Women All Year Long

- The New York Times



 

ISSUES

The Largest-Ever Expansion Of DisneyLand

- CNN


Nashville’s Arts Agency Says It Will Restore The Grants It Rescinded, But When Will Those Artists Get The Money?

- WPLN (Nashville)


Tory Government Will Slash Funding For Arts Instruction In England’s Universities

- The Guardian


Genius Versus Hierarchies And Freedom

- The Critic


How Did British Cultural Institutions Become So Ideologically Driven?

- The Critic


Why Orlando’s Performing Arts Center Has Put Its Expansion Plan On Hold

- WFTV (Orlando)


As Baby Boomer Leaders Retire, A Shortage Of New Non-Profit Leaders

- Chronicle of Philanthropy


Italy Replaces Its €500 Culture Vouchers For 18-Year-Olds

- Publishing Perspectives


Why The UK’s Universities Are In Crisis

- The Guardian


Some California School Districts Are Misusing New Arts Education Funding, Say Unions

- Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)


Voice Engine: Give Me 15 Seconds And I Can Sound Like You (Or Someone Else)

- The New York Times


Hundreds Of Canadian Artists Are Worried, And Vocal, About Proposed Anti-Trans Legislation

- CBC



 

MEDIA

Can Both Of Boston’s NPR Stations Survive In One Media Market?

- The Boston Globe (MSN)


WBEZ/Chicago Public Media Closes Its Podcast Studio And Lays Off 14 Staffers

- Inside Radio


Marlon Brando Was A Revolutionary Actor. Where Are His Successors?

- Washington Post


Music For Video Games Is A Booming Industry For Composers

- San Francisco Classical Voice


Hollywood Musicians Sign New Contract Including Streaming Fees

- The Hollywood Reporter


Minnesota Public Radio Sells Its Only Station In Idaho (Wait, It Had A Station In Idaho?)

- Inside Radio


FCC Is Investigating Pacifica Radio’s New York City Station

- Inside Radio


State Of Podcasting: American Public Media Downsizes Its Podcast Unit

- Current


The Sad, Infuriating Story Of Vice’s Collapse

- The Verge


British Newspaper The Independent Will Take Over BuzzFeed’s UK Sites

- Press Gazette (UK)



 

MUSIC

You Can’t Escape Philip Glass

- Los Angeles Times (Yahoo)


A Young Woman’s Journal To The High Temple Of Violin Making

- The New York Times


Study: People (Regardless Of Culture) Are Drawn To Simple Rhythms

- PsyPost


Boston Symphony Principal Flute Elizabeth Rowe Is Walking Away From The “Dream Job Of A Lifetime”

- The Boston Globe (MSN)


Did Beethoven Have A Secret Code?

- The Atlantic


Pitchfork Had A Huge Audience But It Closed. What Does This Mean For Music Journalism?

- Boston Review


Charlotte Symphony Quietly Raises $41M For The Future

- Charlotte Observer (MSN)


Metropolitan Opera’s New Chorus Director Is Tilman Michael Of Frankfurt Opera

- AP


In One Week, This Man Was Both Named To Run An Opera House And Sentenced To Prison

- Gramilano (Milan)


Alex Ross: Why Conductors Are Collecting Orchestras

- The New Yorker


Spotify To Raise Prices Again Because… Audiobooks

- Gizmodod


200 Artists Sign Letter Protesting Use Of AI

- Ars Technica


After 22 Years, Miami Lyric Opera Is Closing Its Doors

- South Florida Classical Review


Classical Music’s Image Problem

- The Critic


Why Is Adele Talking So Much In Her Concerts?

- The Wall Street Journal


Why Rachmaninoff Is Still Hugely Popular (And Misunderstood)

- The Telegraph (UK)


Klaus Mäkelä Appointed Chicago Symphony Music Director

- AP


How Bad Are Things At The San Francisco Symphony? Quite Bad, And They’ll Get Worse

- San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)



 

PEOPLE

Cole Brings Plenty, Actor In Yellowstone Spinoff 1923, Is Found Dead In Kansas

- CNN (MSN)


Gaetano Pesce, Pioneer Of The Radical Design Movement, Has Died At 84

- Dezeen


Butoh Master Ushio Amagatsu, Founder Of Dance Company Sankai Juku, Is Dead At 74

- The Asahi Shimbun


Playwright Christopher Durang, 75

- The New York Times


John Barth, Postmodernist Novelist, Is Dead At 93

- AP


Maryse Condé, Award-Winning French-Caribbean Author, Has Died At 90

- AFP (Yahoo!)


The Rise and Fall Of Art Fraud Inigo Philbrick

- Vanity Fair


Actor Bill Nighy Is Somehow More Charming Than You Might Even Have Imagined

- The Guardian (UK)



 

THEATRE

When Politicians Endorse Theatre

- The Stage


At This Immersive Theater Show, Some Audience Members Mocked, Harassed, Pawed And Even Hit Actors. Management Did Nothing.

- San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)


This Show Is A Cross Between A Diner And A Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Play

- Time Out New York


Why Broadway Tickets Are So Insanely Expensive These Days

- Gothamist


Edinburgh Fringe Denied By Scotland’s Arts Funder Twice In One Month

- The Scotsman (MSN)


How Censorship Wars are Impacting Theatre In Schools

- American Theatre


How The Logistics Of Transferring A Show To Broadway Work

- Dance Magazine


Center Theatre Group Lays Out A Tentative Path For Recovery, Including Reopening The Mark Taper Forum

- Los Angeles Times (MSN)



 

VISUAL

Justin Davidson: Supertall Towers Have Turned Central Park Into A Canyon

- New York Magazine


Psst Pisa! Any Tips To Stop The Lean?

- The New York Times


What Happened To The Missing Panel Of The Bayeux Tapestry?

- Artnet


How Cambodia Goes About Its Search For Looted Antiquities

- Los Angeles Times (MSN)


Protest Against The “Biennialization” Of Venice

- Hyperallergic


Is This Drawing On A Villa’s Kitchen Wall A Michelangelo? After Five Centuries, It’s For Sale

- The New York Times


Forger Gets Four Years In Jail For Passing His Woodblock Prints Off As 15th-Cntury Originals

- USA Today


Ukrainian Museum Identifies Over 100 Looted Artworks Shown In Russian Video

- Artnet


British Museum Being Investigated For Stolen Artifacts

- ARTnews


Whitney Museum Chooses New Chief Curator

- The New York Times


Over 100 Russian Avant-Garde Paintings Seized By French Law Enforcement

- ARTnews


Suspect Pleads Guilty To Theft Of Maurizio Cattelan’s Golden Toilet

- CNN


Nelson-Atkins Museum Is Auctioning Off One Of Its Monets

- Artnet


Government Watchdog Is Investigating British Museum Over Sacred Ethiopian Tablets

- The Guardian


The Glorious Possibilities Of Public Art

- The Guardian (UK)


The Banksy Superfans Who Travel Hours To See His Newest Works

- BBC



 

WORDS

Texas Prisons Regulate Women’s Reading Material And Self-Education

- LitHub


How To Shop In A Used Bookstore

- Washington Post


Edinburgh International Book Festival Warns Of Cutbacks

- The Scotsman


What’s The World’s Fastest Language? That’s Not Nearly As Simple A Question As You Thought

- Atlas Obscura


Why People Don’t Read More?

- Washington Post


One Of World’s Oldest Books Is Being Sold

- CNN


Canada’s Indigo Books Bought By Investment Fund

- Publishers Weekly


Toni Morrison’s Rejection Letters

- LA Review of Books


So, Who Invented The Modern Lending Library?

- Smithsonian Magazine


What The Bookseller Of Kabul Did After The Taliban Destroyed His Shop And Archive

- The Guardian


Hundreds Of Indie Publishers Scramble Following Small Press Distribution’s Sudden Collapse

- Publishers Weekly


Crossword Puzzles Are All about structures Of Context

- Washington Post


Not The Norman Rockwell Of Verse — Robert Frost At 150

- The Hedgehog Review


How Harper Collins Is Tweaking Book Design To Save Trees

- Fast Company



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