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Master of Arts in Arts Administration – Goucher College
 Designed for the working professional, the M.A. in Arts Administration from Goucher College allows you to live and work wherever you are while you learn from national arts leaders. [READ MORE]
 
Do You Want More Audiences and Donors? 3 Arts Marketing, Development & Ticketing Conferences to Choose From!
 New York, March 16-17; Los Angeles, April 14-15; Toronto, July 20-21. Rocket Boost Your Marketing and Fundraising Into the Next Decade and Beyond! Sign up by Feb. 29 and bring 2 colleagues for FREE! (3-for-1). Digital Marketing Skill-Building Track included! [READ MORE]
 
Vice President & Chief Advancement Officer
 The Jacksonville Symphony seeks Vice President & Chief Advancement Officer (CAO) responsible for planning, implementing, overseeing, and assessing the Symphony's development plans in support of the organization's strategic vision and growth. [READ MORE]
 
Director of Operations / Production Manager
 Join a vibrant opera training program and lifelong music learning institute as a key member of the management team. [READ MORE]
 
General Manager – Theatre for a New Audience
 THEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE (TFANA) in Brooklyn, NY invites qualified candidates to submit applications to become its next General Manager. The General Manager is a trusted confidant and peer, a top executive who oversees all producing duties within TFANA’s season of plays and humanities activities [READ MORE]
 
Director of Artistic Planning, Sydney Symphony Orchestra (Australia)
 The Sydney Symphony Orchestra seeks an experienced Director of Artistic Planning to curate its classical and pops symphonic programming, chamber music, educational programming and regional touring. The Director will partner with new Chief Conductor Simone Young, who begins in 2022. [READ MORE]
 
Annapolis Symphony Orchestra Seeks Executive Director & Chief Development Officer
 The Annapolis Symphony seeks a strong leader with excellent interpersonal skills and a demonstrated track record in fund-raising, strategic planning, and organizational leadership. The successful candidate has a proven ability to lead the organization in achieving its strategic, artistic, financial, and educational goals. [READ MORE]
 
Charlotte Symphony Orchestra seeks President & CEO
 The Charlotte Symphony Orchestra seeks a strategic, business-minded leader with a passion for classical music, high emotional intelligence, and collaborative style to serve as President & CEO. [READ MORE]
 
Artistic Director: Australian National Academy of Music
 The Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) wishes to appoint an Artistic Director to provide exceptional leadership to Australia’s pre-eminent music performance training institution. [READ MORE]
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Sheldon Theatre (Red Wing MN) seeks Executive & Artistic Director 
Seeking a visionary leader to advance the Sheldon’s mission to entertain, educate, and enlighten the community and its visitors through the transformative power of the performing arts in this beautiful Minnesota town on the Mississippi. [READ MORE]

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Director of Development – Theatre Under the Stars (TUTS) 
THEATRE UNDER THE STARS (TUTS) in Houston, TX invites qualified candidates to submit applications to become its next Director of Development. [READ MORE]

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Executive Director: DANCECleveland 
DANCECleveland, a dance-only presenting organization has opened a search for an Executive Director. [READ MORE]

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Beth Morrison Projects seeks Director of Development 
Beth Morrison Projects (BMP) is a unique arts organization that is driven to push the cutting-edge of opera-theatre and music-theatre for a contemporary world. [READ MORE]

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Director of Marketing, Cincinnati Opera 
Cincinnati Opera is seeking a Director of Marketing whose job it will be to achieve revenue targets in ticket sales, expand and diversify the audience, and build brand awareness. [READ MORE]

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President and CEO, Overture Center for the Arts 
The President and CEO will provide aspirational leadership, champion a positive culture, and inspire Overture Center’s exemplary programs, services, and operations. [READ MORE]

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Metropolitan Opera: Director, Sponsorship and Corporate Relations 
The Director of Sponsorship and Corporate Partnerships will lead a refocus on the corporate sector, generating a list of new high-level prospects, creating engagement strategies and actively working on cultivation and solicitation. [READ MORE]

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Digital Marketing Manager – Opera Theatre of Saint Louis 
Primary digital content creator and lead distribution manager for Opera Theatre's digital content. [READ MORE]

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Assistant Dean, Mannes Prep – The New School 
The Assistant Dean of Mannes Prep will be a seasoned professional with experience leading and developing high level pre-collegiate and/or collegiate arts education programs. [READ MORE]

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Dean, Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design 
Drexel University seeks a dynamic, entrepreneurial, and strategic leader to serve as Dean of the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design (Westphal College). [READ MORE]


FROM TODAY'S ARTSJOURNAL BLOGS
“Wasteful & Unnecessary” Spending: Trump Dumps Arts & Humanities, IMLS, Public Broadcasting (again) 

Don’t be lulled into false complacency, art-lings, on the theory that Congress will again resist the President’s call to ax support for NEA, NEH, IMLS and CPB. Contact your Congressional representatives. – Lee Rosenbaum

 


Singing & Signing: How Christine Sun Kim Brought Her Whitney-Biennial “Rage” to the Super Bowl 

After making a powerful impression at last year’s Whitney Biennial with her six drawings of pie charts plotting Degrees of Deaf Rage, deaf artist Christine Sun Kim reached a much wider, more diverse audience — at the Super Bowl. – Lee Rosenbaum

 


The Best of the “Black Symphonies” 

Over the past decade, both William Grant Still and Florence Price have acquired new prominence. But the buried treasure is William Levi Dawson’s Negro Folk Symphony of 1934. – Joseph Horowitz

 


Roberto Magris And Two Good Czechs 

An Italian of Slovenian ancestry who grew up in Trieste, pianist Roberto Magris frequently tours in Europe and the United States. Here, we see and hear him and his colleagues in the Birdland Jazz Club in Neuburg a.d. Donau, Germany. – Doug Ramsey

 



 
TODAY'S ARTS & CULTURE NEWS ~ 02/16/2020

DANCE
Living At The Intersection Of Dance, Social Media, And Teenage Life
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Gibney Dance Reinvents From The Inside Out
     - Email/share this:     - Inside Philanthropy 

Wayne McGregor Is Choreographing A Margaret Atwood Ballet
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

When The Doctor Called The Star Ballerina With Terrible News
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Making The Leap From Dance Student To Professional Less Daunting
     - Email/share this:     - Dance Magazine 

How Ballerina Costumes Influenced 20th Century Fashion
     - Email/share this:     - The Daily Beast 

Carlos Acosta’s Big Plans For Birmingham Ballet
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

Varna International Ballet Competition Postponed Indefinitely
     - Email/share this:     - Dance Magazine 

How A Little Philadelphia Pick-Up Company Became A Contemporary Ballet Powerhouse
     - Email/share this:     - Pointe Magazine 

He Fired A Dancer After She Had A Baby. Now He’s Fired
     - Email/share this:     - Expatica (AFP) 


IDEAS
Making Sense Of Through Tiny Nuggets Of Narrative
     - Email/share this:     - Slate 

The Purpose Of Boredom
     - Email/share this:     - Aeon 

Have Economists Led Us Astray About How The World Works?
     - Email/share this:     - Foreign Affairs 

What Do We Want From History?
     - Email/share this:     - New York Review of Books 

What AI Will Never Be Able To Do
     - Email/share this:     - Prospect 

Our Central Need: Meaning
     - Email/share this:     - Aeon 

Systems Of Creativity – How Ideas And Culture Come Together
     - Email/share this:     - Aeon 

Travel Is A Mind-Expanding Cultural Experience. But What If It’s Killing Us?
     - Email/share this:     - Post Alley 

Journalism Is Broken. Can It Be Saved?
     - Email/share this:     - New York Review of Books 

What If The Tech Revolution Was Just An Illusion Of Progress?
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Meaning Is More Important Than Happiness (The Path To One Is The Other)
     - Email/share this:     - Aeon 

Parasite Has Won So Much More Than Best Picture
     - Email/share this:     - The Atlantic 


ISSUES
Let’s Talk About This ‘Classical’ Architecture Thing, Strongmen, And Fascism
     - Email/share this:     - Slate 

Some Writers Are ‘Secretly’ Working With Fired Agents
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times  

The Need For Civic Protest
     - Email/share this:     - Maclean's 

Has Fan Culture Gotten Out Of Hand? Should They Have So Much Influence On The Art?
     - Email/share this:     - BBC 

These Two Made Millions On Scamming Online Arts Tickets
     - Email/share this:     - BBC 

Coronavirus Is Devastating The Arts In China
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

How Bad Is California’s New Freelance Law For Performers? Let Them Tell You
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

Threatened By Gentrification, Berlin’s Nightclubs Seek Same Legal-Cultural Status As Theatres And Opera Houses
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

The Problems With Re-Enactments Of Slavery And The Underground Railroad
     - Email/share this:     - The New Yorker 

First Major Arts Venue To Make All Its Performances ‘Relaxed’
     - Email/share this:     - The Times (UK) 

Entire Hong Kong Arts Festival Is Cancelled Due To Coronavirus Epidemic
     - Email/share this:     - South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) 


MEDIA
So ‘Parasite’ Won A Lot Of Oscars. What Happens Next?
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Prediction: Half Of American Homes Will Cut Cable TV Cord By 2024
     - Email/share this:     - CNBC 

UK’s Broadcasting Authority Gets Responsibility For Policing Web And Social Media
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

Another Coronavirus Catastrophe: China’s Cinema Box Office Down By 99.75%
     - Email/share this:     - Hollywood Reporter 

Shock: Entire Board of French Movie Academy Resigns
     - Email/share this:     - Variety 

Peak TV? Yes – Here’s How Many Shows Were Available To Watch Last Year
     - Email/share this:     - Wired 

Could The Success Of ‘Parasite’ Finally Convince Americans To Accept Subtitled Films?
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

Why’s New Zealand Rescuing The Classical Radio Station And Not Ours? Ask Māoris
     - Email/share this:     - The Spinoff (New Zealand) 

The Media Industry Is Booming. So Why Is Creative Employment In Los Angeles Down
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

Could “Parasite’s” Oscar Win Change The Way Movies Are Distributed Internationally?
     - Email/share this:     - The Hollywood Reporter 

Facing Storm Of Criticism And Boycott Threats, France’s Motion Picture Academy Promises Reform
     - Email/share this:     - Variety 

Can Two New Directors Fix The Berlin Film Festival?
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

Why Is There No (Or Little) Arts Programming On The Streaming Platforms?
     - Email/share this:     - The Art Newspaper 

The Academy Might Not Honor These Black Actresses, But Alfre Woodard Sure Will
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 


MUSIC
Can The Worldwide Vinyl Boom Recover From The Apollo Factory Fire?
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

After Robert Massey Has One Year As CEO, The Louisville Orchestra Moves Him On
     - Email/share this:     - Louisville Courier Journal 

When Airlines Break Musicians’ Instruments
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian  

This Composer Just Made History At The Oscars. Get To Know Her Music With These Seven Pieces
     - Email/share this:     - Pitchfork 

World’s Largest Music Label Says It Will List On The Stock Market
     - Email/share this:     - BBC 

Denied Visas, Siberian State Symphony Cancels U.S. Tour
     - Email/share this:     - Orange County Register (California) 

Scottish Conservatory Suspends Teachers For “Bullying” Culture In Course Others Call Visionary
     - Email/share this:     - The Scotsman 

Meet Seattle Opera’s Scholar In Residence, First Of Her Kind In The U.S.
     - Email/share this:     - Seattle Times 

The End Of Music Snobbery
     - Email/share this:     - The Atlantic 

Philly Pops Music Director Abruptly Replaced After Seven Months
     - Email/share this:     - Philadelphia Inquirer 

Radio New Zealand Kills Plan To Kill Its Classical Station
     - Email/share this:     - New Zealand Herald 

Baltimore Symphony Board Adopts Five-Year ‘Master Plan’ To Solve Its Financial Crisis
     - Email/share this:     - Baltimore Sun 

Oregon Symphony Music Director Carlos Kalmar To Step Down Next Season
     - Email/share this:     - The Oregonian 

Why Today’s Musicians Are Better Than Those 30 Years Ago
     - Email/share this:     - San Francisco Classical Voice 

Angela Hewitt’s $200,000 Piano Destroyed By Movers
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

Here’s How Hard It Is For Musicians To Make A Living From Streaming (Spoiler Alert: You Really Can’t)
     - Email/share this:     - Seattle Times 

New Book Claims: Brubeck Rehearsal Tapes Show Legendary Band Struggling Mightily
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

Protests Over Plans To Kill New Zealand’s Only Classical Radio Station
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

Hildur Gudnadottir Becomes First Woman Composer To Win Best Score Oscar
     - Email/share this:     - The Hollywood Reporter 


PEOPLE
Elizabeth Cullinan, Who Helped Redefine Irish American Literature, Has Died At 86
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Nedda Casei, Mezzo-Soprano Who Became A Labor Leader, Has Died At 87
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

A.E. Hotchner, Writer And Co-Founder Of Newman’s Own, Has Died At 102
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Lynn Cohen, Magda Of ‘Sex And The City’ Fame, Has Died At 86
     - Email/share this:     - Variety 

Barbara Remington, Illustrator Of Classic Lord Of The Rings Covers, Has Died At 90
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

Scrotum-Nailing, Bank-Burning Artist Interferes With Paris Mayoral Campaign
     - Email/share this:     - Yahoo! (AP) 

Actor-Singer-Dancer Paula Kelly Dead At 77
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 

How Dorothea Lange Changed America
     - Email/share this:     - T — The New York Times Style Magazine 

When Karl Ove Knausgaard Met Anselm Kiefer
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times Magazine 

Lois Schaefer, 95, The Boston Symphony’s Longtime Piccolo Star
     - Email/share this:     - Boston Globe 

Sculptor Beverly Pepper, 97
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

Joseph Shabalala, Founder Of Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Dead At 78
     - Email/share this:     - BBC 

Tom Lutz, Man Of Writing
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

How Did Margot Robbie Change The (Sexist Hollywood) Narrative About Her?
     - Email/share this:     - Buzzfeed News 


THEATRE
When Plays Explore Trauma, Performers Bear The Brunt Of The Pain
     - Email/share this:     - The Stage (UK) 

Saturday’s Matinee Of ‘Jagged Little Pill’ Evacuated After A Pepper Spray Incident
     - Email/share this:     - New York Daily News 

“Les Miz” Song Has Become A Defiant Protest Anthem In China
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

How Hard Is It To Be A Freelance Theatre Critic Under California’s New Gig Law? This Hard
     - Email/share this:     - San Francisco Chronicle 

38 Years After It Won A Pulitzer, Charles Fuller’s ‘A Soldier’s Play’ Makes It To Broadway
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

How Instagram Is Changing Theatre
     - Email/share this:     - American Theatre 

What’s An ASL Interpreter’s Most Difficult Job? Stand-Up Comedy
     - Email/share this:     - Vulture 

Bay Area Theatre Folk Are, Well, Ambivalent About Little Clapping Man In SF Chronicle’s Reviews
     - Email/share this:     - American Theatre 

Study: Why There’s So Little Critical Coverage Of Theatre Made By Disabled Artists
     - Email/share this:     - The Stage 

‘The Inheritance’ Playwright Matthew Lopez Responds To Criticism Of Its Representation Of Queer Communities (Okay, Its Whiteness)
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

England’s Arts Council Forgot One Major Discussion In Its Ambitious Plan: Women
     - Email/share this:     - The Stage (UK) 


VISUAL
New Banksy In Bristol Vandalized Almost As Soon As It Appears
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian (UK) 

Why Has A Whole Series Of Private Art Museums Shut Down?
     - Email/share this:     - The Art Newspaper 

The Obama Portraits Have Become, In Essence, Pilgrimage Sites
     - Email/share this:     - Artnet 

See A 3D Recreation Of Ancient Greece
     - Email/share this:     - Hyperallergic 

Playing Against The Web – How Art Criticism Is Evolving
     - Email/share this:     - ARTnews 

A Second Court Rules That Tate Modern’s Neighbors Should Buy Some Damn Curtains Or Quit Their Bellyaching
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian (PA) 

New Study Contests When Easter Island Collapse Happened
     - Email/share this:     - Artnet 

Bizarre Twist In Case Of Stolen Klimt Found In Museum Wall
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

Surprise: There’s Been A Rembrandt In Allentown, Pa. For 59 Years
     - Email/share this:     - Smithsonian Magazine 

Using Art To Engage How People Learn
     - Email/share this:     - Arts ATL 

What We Learn From Ruins
     - Email/share this:     - Washington Post 

Edward Munch’s ‘The Scream’ Is Fading. Scientists Are Figuring Out Why
     - Email/share this:     - New York Times 

Something Is Going Wrong At The Glasgow School Of Art After A Bad Fire. So Why Fire A Whistleblower For Talking?
     - Email/share this:     - Sunday Post (Glasgow) 

All Objects Have Meaning – So How Do Museums Contextualize Shame?
     - Email/share this:     - Lapham's Quarterly 

Trump Versus Architecture Is Really Trump Versus Experts
     - Email/share this:     - The New Republic 

Why Would Trump Attack Modernist Buildings?
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 


WORDS
 Two Men Broke Into A London Bookshop Intending To Rob It, But Then They Found The Prosecco
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian (UK) 

 Checking In On (What’s Left Of) This Professional Writers Organization
     - Email/share this:     - Publishers Weekly 

 The New York Public Library Is Turning 125, And Here Are Its 125 Most Favorite Books
     - Email/share this:     - LitHub 

 Think Fan Fic Is New?
     - Email/share this:     - The Atlantic 

 Duh – Most Of Us Judge A Book By Its Title
     - Email/share this:     - Publishers Weekly 

 California May Remove Submissions Cap For Freelance Journalists Under New Gig Law
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

 A Human Response To Amazon’s Algorithms: Custom-Designed Book Subscriptions
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

 How The Novel Lost Its Place In American Culture
     - Email/share this:     - The Spectator 

 Why Anonymous Is A Bestselling Author, And Why That’s A Problem
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian 

 Trump Administration Abruptly Closes National Archives In Seattle, Infuriating Researchers, Tribal Leaders
     - Email/share this:     - Seattle Times 

 A History Of Poets Laureate
     - Email/share this:     - Los Angeles Times 

 Chaucer’s ‘Canterbury Tales’ Is Now An App
     - Email/share this:     - Smithsonian Magazine 

 Amazon Has Been Banning Objectionable Books (Think Neo-Nazi) From Its Platform. Is That A Problem?
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

 A Black, Gay Writer Takes On The Traditional Campus Narrative
     - Email/share this:     - The New York Times 

 Anonymous Used To Be A Woman, But Now Is A Secret Identity For Spill-All Political Writers
     - Email/share this:     - The Guardian (UK) 

 Irish Writer Anne Enright And The Building Of Ambience In A Novel
     - Email/share this:     - The Irish Times 



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