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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, February 16, 2025 Skip down to News PREMIUM AJ CLASSIFIEDS Reach our 30,000 subscribers - Advertise on AJ Chief Development Officer- Arena Stage Arena Stage is seeking a talented fundraising leader driven by ambition and creativity to serve as its Chief Development Officer. [READ MORE] Artistic Director- Court Theatre Court Theatre is currently seeking its next Marilyn F. Vitale Artistic Director. Winner of the 2022 Regional Theatre Tony Award, Court Theatre reimagines classic theatre. [READ MORE] Arizona Opera seeks General Director Arizona Opera has reopened an international search and invites nominations and applications for the position of General Director, available July 1, 2025. [READ MORE] Chief Financial Officer – La Jolla Playhouse The Playhouse’s brilliant and innovative productions of classics, immersive projects, new plays and musicals have merited over 300 major honors and 42 Tony Awards. [READ MORE] AJ CLASSIFIEDS Reach our 30,000 subscribers - Advertise on ArtsJournal jobs Baltimore Museum of Art seeks Chief of External Affairs The CEA will be the primary staff liaison for the External Affairs Board Committee and will be engaged with other Board Committees such as Governance/Nominating. [READ MORE] jobs Executive Director, The Shaker Museum The Opportunity The Shaker Museum seeks a dynamic, forward-thinking, and visionary Executive Director to lead the organization into a new era of growth and engagement. After years of planning, the Shaker Museum is building a 21st-century museum to showcase the world’s most comprehensive collection of Shaker material culture and archives. The four-floor facility located in […] [READ MORE] jobs Filoli seeks Chief Development Officer The CDO manages Filoli’s annual fund, major gifts, corporate and foundation giving, planned giving, and fundraising events, and will oversee all aspects of donor engagement and stewardship. [READ MORE] jobs Chamber Music Society Seeks Director of Marketing and Communications The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center seeks a Director of Marketing and Communications, a pivotal leadership position at a premiere institution. [READ MORE] jobs The Barbican Centre seeks Head of Cinema The Head of Cinema will lead the development and delivery of a dynamic cinema strategy that reflects the Barbican’s strategic framework with core principles to inspire, connect, and provoke debate. [READ MORE] jobs Executive Director – The Knights The Knights seek a strategic and entrepreneurial leader to be Executive Director of this ambitious and creative New York City-based orchestral collective. [READ MORE] jobs Tennessee Performing Arts Center seeks Vice President of Marketing & Communications Tennessee Performing Arts Center (TPAC) is seeking a Vice President of Marketing & Communications to join our team in Nashville, TN. [READ MORE] jobs Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art seeks Director of Advancement The Director of Development (DoD) will have primary responsibility for all aspects of the museum’s fundraising and philanthropic programs and will serve as a key member of the leadership team. [READ MORE] jobs PEM, Director of Exhibition Design PEM, Salem, MA, seeks a Director of Exhibition Design to lead its studio, serving as Lead Designer for select exhibitions. 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Will New NEA Rules Lock Them Out? - The New York Times Reuters Wins First Copyright Lawsuit Over AI - Anonymous Charlotte, NC Adopts New Model For Arts Funding - The Charlotte Observer New Trump Kennedy Center Fires Deborah Rutter, Install New Board Leaders - The Washington Post (MSN) The Beginning Of the End For Big Research Universities? - The Atlantic Assessing The Artistic Losses From The LA Fires - San Francisco Classical Voice MEDIA What Fernanda Torres’s Oscar Run Means For Brazil - Los Angeles Times (MSN) FCC Commissioner Sics Investigation Of Comcast Over Diversity - TechDirt New England Public Media Lays Off 13% Of Its Staff - WBUR (Boston) Why Hollywood Now Releases Almost All Romcoms Directly To Streaming - Variety Elon Musk’s DOGE Has Voice of America And Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty In Its Crosshairs - Inside Radio PBS Closes Its DEI Office - The Hollywood Reporter Missouri’s Two Largest Public Radio Stations To Split From University Of Missouri - Inside Radio Tech’s Biggest Battle: The Box - Intelligencer (MSN) For The First Time There Was Gender Parity For Major Film Lead Actors In 2024 - The Guardian Ratings Chaos: How Many People Really See A Given TV Show? 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Opera Calls Off Premiere Of Missy Mazzoli’s “Lincoln In The Bardo” - AP How Spotify Is Dulling Our Musical Taste - LA Review of Books How To Make Sense Of Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl Show? - The New Yorker Court Throws Out Countertenor David Daniels’s Wrongful Dismissal Lawsuit - AP Strad Sells At Auction for $11M - NPR Study: Music Has Become More Simplified - Music Radar How Does Portland’s Jazz Station Stay Alive? - Oregon ArtsWatch The First Dog In Space, And A Random Meeting In Norway, Inspired Ireland’s Eurovision Entry - Irish Times PEOPLE Ken Wydro, Who Helped Create An Enduring Staple Of Off-Broadway Theatre, Has Died At 81 - The New York Times Pianist Maria Tipo Has Died At Age 94 - The Washington Post (MSN) Filmmaker Lars Von Trier Moves Into Care Center For Parkinson’s Disease - New York Daily News Soprano Edith Mathis Is Dead At 86 - Presto Music Hilton Als, Curator (And Critic) - The New York Times Jeff Koons: Here’s What Really Motivates Me (It Isn’t Money) - Prospect “I Was Screaming Because Of The Pain”: Salman Rushdie Testifies In Attempted Murder Trial - The Guardian Estranged Husband Of Art Dealer Brent Sikkema Charged With Hiring His Murderer - ARTnews Painter And Critic Walter Robinson, Founding Editor of Artnet Magazine, Is Dead At 74 - ARTnews Rutherford Chang, Conceptual Artist Who Made His Collections Art, Has Died At 45 - The New York Times THEATRE How One Regional Theater Company Was Resurrected Ten Years After Its Sudden Demise - The Charlotte Observer Ibsen’s “An Enemy Of The People” Is Just The Play For These Times - San Francisco Chronicle (MSN) Her Title Just Begins To Describe What This Woman Does For Broadway’s “The Lion King” - The New York Times “Dolly Parton” Producers Strike Back Against Homophobic Audience Outbursts - Deadline Off-Broadway Stage Crews Unionize; Producers Worry - The New York Times Cast Of Dolly Parton Musical Walks Offstage When Audience Member Shouts “Homophobic Abuse” - The Guardian Trinity Rep/Brown University Theater MFA Programs “Paused” Indefinitely - Playbill How Does ‘Hamilton,’ Now A Decade Old, Hold Up? - Seattle Times VISUAL The Cleveland Museum Will Finally Send A Statue Back To Turkey - Artnet Australia’s Venice Biennale Scandal - The Art Newspaper A Look At New Visions For The British Museum - Apollo Herzog And De Meuron Will Be Lead Architects For San Antonio Museum of Art Renovation - San Antonio Report Female Surrealists Are Finally Getting The Attention They Deserve - The Guardian How Trump’s Tariffs Will Disrupt The Art Market - ARTnews The Real Problem With Trump’s Edict About Building Classical Buildings - The Nation Court Throws Out Insurance Lawsuit Over Burned Monets Worth $45 Million - MLive (Michigan) Greeting Card Company Goes To Court To Claim Banksy Copyright - Artnet Enormous Gift Of French Neoclassicist Works To Art Institute Of Chicago - ARTnews Suspect Pleads Guilty To Smuggling Egyptian Antiquities Into US - The New York Times Vandal Attacks High Altar At St. Peter’s In Rome - ARTnews WORDS The Tiny British Publisher That Took A Big Risk – And That Is Now Expanding To The US - The New York Times The Industrial Revolution Completely Changed Valentine’s Day - The Conversation The Fiercely Competitive Race To Decipher Cuneiform - Smithsonian Magazine This Little Three-Letter Verb May Be The Most Complicated Word In The English Language - Mental Floss The Trump Threat To Academic Research and Publication - Post Alley How Poker Helped Start (And Then Nearly Snuffed Out) The New Yorker Magazine 100 Years Ago - The Conversation The Book Blurb Announcements, Explained - Vox Romance Fiction Is Hot. Here’s How It Works - The New Yorker A Third Of The Observer’s Staff Is Taking Buyouts Before The Guardian Turns Over Ownership - Press Gazette (UK) You’re A Scientist. You’re Describing Your Work. Now You Can’t Use The Words “Diversity,” “Excluded” And… - Fast Company Strike At New York Magazine Averted As Union And Vox Media Agree On Contract - The Hollywood Reporter The Painfully Self-Conscious World Of The Alt-Fiction World - The Point Scrappy Melville House Publishes Jack Smith Reports - The Guardian What’s Your Writing Worth To An AI Company? - Bloomberg Happy reading! Got a story recommendation? We love to hear them. Send tips to [email protected]. We'll see you tomorrow. AJBlogs | Ideas | Dance | Issues | Media | Music | People | Theatre | Visual | Words | Audience Copyright © 2025 ArtsJournal, All rights reserved. You subscribed to this list. Our mailing address is: ArtsJournal117 E. 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