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• Hermitage storage centre searched by FSB agents

  03-02-2017 22:31
  
  Mikhail Piotrovsky, the director of the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, has played down concerns about a search earlier this week of a museum facility by the Federal Security Service (FSB).The Hermitage confirmed in a statement on Tuesday that FSB investigators were looking into operational procedures at the museums state-of-the-art Staraya Derevnya restoration and repository center. In 2015, the Hermitage announced a 3.7-billion-ruble tender to build part of the third stage of the Sta
  
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• Bandcamp to Donate Proceeds From All Music Sales Today to the ACLU

  03-02-2017 22:15 via artnews.com
  Bandcamp, the music site that plays home to an improbably eclectic variety of musical acts and sells their wares in ways that take equitability as a worthwhile goal, is donating its portion of all music sales today—February 3—to the American … Read More
  
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• Bonnie Lucas at JTT, New York

  03-02-2017 22:03 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Read More
  
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• Meditative Lines and a Good Egg: Dan Walsh on His Current Show at Paula Cooper

  03-02-2017 21:12 via artnews.com
  For patterns with origins in gestures so simple and systematic, the ordered forms in Dan Walsh’s paintings lead to a remarkable profusion of effects. They’re minimalistic—but not necessarily. They’re formalist—but not in the whole. They’re meditative—but somehow both more and … Read More
  
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• From the Archives: Jimmie Durham’s Tough, Ironically Funny Work

  03-02-2017 20:59 via artnews.com
  Since the early 1990s, Jimmie Durham has had a sticky relationship with the art world. Both tokenized as a Native American artist and marginalized because of his race, Durham makes work about racism, the history of the readymade, and discrimination, and … Read More
  
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• In Elegant Riposte to Trump’s Travel Order, MoMA Installs Works by Artists From Banned Muslim Countries

  03-02-2017 20:31 via artnews.com
  Less than a week after President Trump signed an executive order banning citizens of seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the United States, the Museum of Modern Art in New York has responded by installing a dozen works by artists from those countries, … Read More
  
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• Rodin, Muslim style and hippie chic

  03-02-2017 20:00
  
  Six months into the job of running the de Young and Legion of Honor (known as the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, or FAMSF), Max Hollein is already revamping planned shows and introducing new ones. On Thursday, Hollein announced that the museum acquired 62 works by contemporary African American artists from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation in Atlanta, and will display the full collection in the special exhibition Revelations: Art from the African American South (3 June-1 April 2018). As the
  
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• David Hockney show is fastest-selling exhibition in Tate's history

  03-02-2017 19:53
  
  About 20,000 advance tickets have been sold for the retrospective which opens on Thursday at Tate Britain Tate’s David Hockney retrospective, which will trace the artist’s career from his early sketches in the 1960s to unseen new paintings, has become the fastest-selling exhibition in the gallery’s history.The exhibition, which opens on Thursday, is the largest ever staged by Tate Britain and is Hockney’s most extensive show, covering six decades of his life lived between
  
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• Calatrava's New £1 Billion Project For London Will Change The Skyline

  03-02-2017 19:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Spanish-born architect Santiago Calatrava has designed a 24 metre-high (79ft) glass arcade with “winter garden” atrium for the complex, which will be topped by three towers, each rising more than 30 storeys above North Greenwich station, which is to be renamed Greenwich Peninsula."
  
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• Six Critics Name Six Ways 'Girls' Changed Television (Or Didn't)

  03-02-2017 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  For instance, sex: "According to Hollywood, women can have completely satisfying sexual experiences without ever taking off their bras, and manage to reach euphoric orgasms within minutes. Girls never bothered with any of these tropes. From the show's first episode, the sex was sweaty, it was weird, it was jiggly, it was unflattering. Which is to say: It was realistic."
  
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• Prosecution seeks jail time and heavy fines for Paris museum thieves

  03-02-2017 18:54
  
  Heavy sentences were sought at the trial of three men involved in the 2010 burglary of the Muse d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, when five masterpieces by Picasso, Braque, Matisse, Modigliani and Lger, valued at a combine 108m, were taken and subsequently vanished. Calling the heist one of the worst in a museum in modern history, the prosecutor asked the court to repair an attack against humanitys heritage.The professional burglar Vjeran Tomic, nicknamed the Spider, faces ten years in jail,
  
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• Terrorist Shot At Entrance To The Louvre - Museum Closes

  03-02-2017 18:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  "The attacker, who police say shouted 'Allahu Akbar' during the assault, was seriously wounded after another soldier fired at him five times. A second man, who was reportedly acting suspiciously at the scene, has been detained.  The Louvre has been closed “until further notice” and a safety zone has been set up around the museum.
  
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• Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver Receives $400,000 From Mellon Foundation

  03-02-2017 18:36 via artnews.com
  The Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver announced yesterday that it has received a $400,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The grant will go toward a three-year program, “Animating Museums,” for which professionals from around the world will be brought to … Read More
  
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• A BIG Ten-Year Drop In Visitors To UK Public Libraries

  03-02-2017 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Despite ministerial pledges to halt the decimation of library services, the report from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport found that the number of adults who had visited a public library in the 12 months to the end of September 2016 fell to 33.8%, from 48.2% 10 years earlier."
  
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• MoMA responds to Trump’s immigration ban through its collection

  03-02-2017 18:17
  
  The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York has taken a very public stand against President Trumps executive order on immigrationall without releasing a formal statement or sending a tweet. On Thursday night, curators reinstalled the museums fifth-floor permanent collection galleries with works by artists from the majority-Muslim nations whose citizens have been affected by the immigration ban.
  Paintings by Picasso, Matisse and Picabia were replaced with works by the Iraqi-born architect Zaha H
  
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• 'The Father Of Science Fiction'? Who *Was* Hugo Of The Hugo Awards?

  03-02-2017 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  "The annual awards for best science fiction are called 'Hugos.' A futuristic story by William Gibson in 1981 was called 'The Gernsback Continuum.' But except for a few markers like these, Hugo Gernsback (1884-1967) has mostly vanished from our cultural memory, which is a pity, because he was an extraordinary man, and his influence on our modern age - electrical, science-permeated, and full of wonders - was outsized."
  
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• Amadeus - First It Was A Play, Then A Movie, Now A Play/Movie...

  03-02-2017 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Britain's National Theatre has a sold-out hit with a revival of Peter Shaffer's play about bad-boy genius Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his jealous rival Antonio Salieri, composer to the 18th-century Viennese court. The production, which mixes actors, opera singers and a 20-piece onstage orchestra, is being broadcast in movie theaters around the world Thursday as part of the NT Live series. There are repeat screenings over the coming weeks."
  
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• Dutch city celebrates Mondrian with sky-high replica on city hall

  03-02-2017 17:29
  
  2017 marks centenary of De Stijl abstract art movement, which features black lines and red, yellow and blue blocks of colourDutch officials have unveiled what they called “the largest Mondrian painting in the world” to celebrate the Netherlands’ best-known abstract artist, who helped found an influential art movement a century ago.The replica “painting” made from thin stick-on plastic sheets features Piet Mondrian’s famous design of straight black lines and st
  
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• Dutch celebrate Mondrian by cladding The Hague's city hall

  03-02-2017 17:29
  
  2017 marks the centenary of the De Stijl abstract art movement, which features black lines and red, yellow and blue blocks of colourDutch officials have unveiled what they called “the largest Mondrian painting in the world” to celebrate The Netherlands’ best-known abstract artist, who helped found an influential art movement a century ago.The replica “painting” made from thin stick-on plastic sheets features Piet Mondrian’s famous design of straight black line
  
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• Director, Arts Management/Term Assistant Professor

  03-02-2017 17:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  The George Mason University Arts Management Program, within the College of Visual and Performing Arts (CVPA), invites applications for a 12-month Director/Term Assistant Professor of Arts Management. George Mason University has a strong institutional commitment to the achievement of excellence and diversity among its faculty and staff, and strongly encourages candidates to apply who will enrich Mason's academic and culturally inclusive environment.
  The Arts Management Program, in existence for o
  
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• In Paris, an Art+Feminisms Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon Slated for March

  03-02-2017 17:11 via artnews.com
  For the third year in a row, the Fondation d’Entreprise Galeries Lafayette in Paris will host an Art+Feminisms Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon. This year’s edition will be hosted by critic José Esteban Muñoz and artist Wu Tsang, suggesting a greater interest in … Read More
  
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• You Think 'Alternative Facts' Are Like Science Fiction? Ursula Le Guin Would Like A Word With You

  03-02-2017 17:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  In a letter to her local paper, she writes, "We call it fiction because it isn't fact. ... The test of a fact is that it simply is so - it has no 'alternative.'The sun rises in the east.To pretend the sun can rise in the west is a fiction, to claim that it does so as fact (or 'alternative fact') is a lie."
  
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• Here Is the Exhibitor List for the 2017 Dallas Art Fair

  03-02-2017 17:00 via artnews.com
  Everything’s bigger in Texas, right? While the Dallas Art Fair is not the grandest on earth, it’s gotten gradually bigger and better-attended since its inception in 2009, and this year’s edition has over 90 participants who will, in fact, mess … Read More
  
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• Associate Curator Medieval Art and Cloisters

  03-02-2017 16:59
  THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
   
  EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
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  Associate Curator 
  GENERAL STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITIES & DUTIES:
  The Associate Curator will either specialize in late medieval art (13th-16th century) or the arts of the Mediterranean world in the late antique through medieval periods. The ideal candidate is expected to be active as a scholar in his/her area of expertise, have a global perspecti
  
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• Want To Reach New Audiences For Your Contemporary Dance? Stop Using Arty, Abstruse Titles

  03-02-2017 16:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  Lyndsey Winship, citing such examples as Siobhan Davies's' material/rearranged/to/be and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui's Babel(words) and m¡longa: "It's the choreographer’s prerogative, of course, but in an art form that already feels distant and unreadable to some audiences, being wilfully abstruse in your labelling doesn't exactly help. ... It can feel as though artists are attempting to prove their cleverness and exclusivity when jargon actually functions as a barrier rather than an invita
  
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• Assistant Curator Medieval Art and Cloisters

  03-02-2017 16:26
  THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
  EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
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  Assistant Curator
      
  GENERAL STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITIES & DUTIES:
  The Assistant Curator will either specialize in late medieval art (13th-16th
  century) or the arts of the Mediterranean world in the late antique through medieval periods. The ideal candidate is expected to be active as a scholar in his/her area of expertise, have a global per
  
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• Bolshoi Prima Ballerina On How It Feels To Dance The Dual Lead In 'Swan Lake'

  03-02-2017 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Svetlana Zakharova: "This ballet is so difficult, not just technically, but also on an emotional level. It's so complex. You need to be 100 percent sure that you have the full technique, that you will be interesting to the audience, that during the White Adagio, people won't be able to tear their eyes away from you." (includes video)
  
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• Hockney, volcanoes and Renaissance robots – the week in art

  03-02-2017 16:02
  
  The Tate’s big David Hockney show opens and the Turner Contemporary looks at how women have turned craft into art – all in your weekly art dispatchDavid Hockney
  Hockney is one of the most original and important artists we have ever given the world – this will be a smash hit and rightly so.
  • Tate Britain, London, 9 February-29 May. Continue reading...
  
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• One Of Broadway's Oldest Surviving Theaters Is Now Its Youngest

  03-02-2017 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  "When the Hudson Theater reopens on Saturday, Feb. 11 - with Jake Gyllenhaal adding star power to the revival of Sunday in the Park With George - it becomes Broadway's 41st and newest playhouse, 114 years after it became one of Broadway's first. (It opened with a production of Cousin Kate starring Ethel Barrymore.)" Erik Piepenburg offers a history of the house, with photos.
  
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• Revolving Auditorium To Be Part Of New Creative District In Liverpool

  03-02-2017 15:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  The theatre and music venue would be the first in Britain (and only the third in the world) with a rotating seating area in the center of the hall and stages/performing spaces against the walls. The hall is part of the proposed Ten Streets creative district, plans for which have just been revealed.
  
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• Classical Composers Aren't Exactly Celebrities In America - So How Did Philip Glass Become A Household Name?

  03-02-2017 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Steve Reich and John Adams have been more innovative; Michael Nyman writes Hollywood film scores, too. But Glass is the one who gets name-checked in Gilmore Girls and made fun of on The Simpsons and South Park. Why is this? Dan Ruccia has an explanation. (It's not because of Cousin Ira.)
  
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• Fired Director Of Shakespeare's Globe Talks About Her Sacking - And Why She's Still There

  03-02-2017 14:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  The board of the replica 16th-century theatre in London decided to replace Emma Rice last November, just a year into her initial two-year contract. Yet she's still on the job, and she's just announced the details of this summer's season, her last there - and she's explained why she didn't just walk away.
  
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• Morning Links: Knife Attack at the Louvre Edition

  03-02-2017 14:43 via artnews.com
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• Uffizi Gallery In Florence Begins Long-Term Project To Show More Female Artists From History

  03-02-2017 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  The initiative, which begins next month with an exhibition devoted to Suor Plautilla Nelli (1523-87), the first known female painter in Florence, grew out of a conversation between Uffizi director Eike Schmidt and the Guerrilla Girls.
  
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• Verona's Ancient Roman Amphitheatre To Get Retractable Roof

  03-02-2017 14:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  A winner has been chosen from among 87 designs submitted for roofing the Arena di Verona, which dates back to 30 AD and is still regularly used for concerts and other events, as well as for one of the world's most famous (and financially precarious) opera festivals.
  
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• Composer Michael Hersch Wins $250,000 Award From Johns Hopkins

  03-02-2017 14:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  The head of the composition department at the Peabody Institute, Johns Hopkins University's conservatory, Hersch was named the winner of the 2017 President's Frontier Award, which goes to a JHU faculty member "poised to break new ground and be a leader in [his/her] field."
  
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• See The Shimmering Walls Of Iran's 'Emerald Mosque'

  03-02-2017 13:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  At the Shah Cheragh in Shiraz, "mosaics made of mirror shards and tiles cover each wall. Glittering chandeliers hang from the ceilings and spots of light dance in the domes. As the above video by Great Big Story shows, being inside is like inhabiting a disco ball."
  
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• Inside The Stained Glass Workshop At Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque

  03-02-2017 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  A longread with photos about the conservators and craftsmen preserving traditional gypsum glass work at the Muslim holy site
  
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• Rebels and realists: the art of survival in post-revolutionary Russia

  03-02-2017 13:00
  
  Ahead of a major exhibition at the Royal Academy, Sarah Crompton visits Moscow and St Petersburg to explore a period of hard struggle and creativityThe State Russian Museum is one of those lavish St Petersburg buildings that has seen a lot of history pass by its elegantly proportioned facade. It was built in 1825 as a palace for the Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich, and after his death became famous for theatrical displays and the lavish balls that were held by his wife.Since 1895 it has displayed a
  
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• David Jones’s The Garden Enclosed: trauma, passion and childhood

  03-02-2017 13:00
  
  This painting of the artist and his young lover seems to show them embracing romantically, yet it is far from joyfulMysteries bloom like the flowers in David Jones’s The Garden Enclosed. The couple are the poet-painter and his fiance Petra, the 17-year-old daughter of his mentor, the sculptor and craft fanatic Eric Gill. Is she pushing him away or feeling his heartbeat? Does his flushed face and her pale cheek speak of unmatched passion? Continue reading...
  
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• Saudi women artists make their mark at 21,39 festival in Jeddah

  03-02-2017 12:57
  
  Works by women artists are making waves at the fourth edition of 21,39, the non-profit art initiative in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, which opens this week (until 6 May). The annual event, which has made a major contribution to the burgeoning Middle Eastern art scene, includes exhibitions in five venues, educational workshops, visits to artists studios and commercial gallery openings. Princess Jawaher bint Majed bin Abdulaziz, who founded the Saudi Art Council in 2013, is the driving force behind 21,3
  
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• Louvre shuts after knife attack of ‘terrorist nature’

  03-02-2017 12:52
  
  French police are evacuating 250 people from the Muse du Louvre in Paris after a man attacked a patrolling soldier near the museums entrance at 10am today. The attack, which happened on the stairway of the Carrousel du Louvre, an underground shopping centre, has been described as being of a terrorist nature by the French Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve. The attacker, who police say shouted Allahu Akbar during the assault, was seriously wounded after another soldier fired at him five times
  
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• Stolen Van Gogh paintings to go on show in Naples

  03-02-2017 12:41
  
  Two stolen Van Gogh paintings are to be unveiled at the Museo di Capodimonte in Naples next week. They had been seized from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam in 2002 and were secreted away by the mafia. On 30 September 2016 the two pictures were recovered by the Italian authorities in Castellammare di Stabia, a seaside resort 25 kilometres south of Naples. The pictures are believed to have been held by Raffaele Imperiale, a leader of the Neapolitan mafia.On 7 February Van Goghs View of the Sea a
  
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• David Hockney's perky logo for the Sun reminds us of the world's beauty

  03-02-2017 12:37
  
  The artist’s redesign of the Sun’s masthead may be a dashed-off iPad sketch, but it shows his wit, optimism and interest in light are all undimmed as he nears 80Roll over, Damien Hirst. Go tell Grayson the news. David Hockney has just proved he is still Britain’s canniest pop artist (even though he denies ever having being one). None of the younger generation of media-savvy artists has ever redesigned the masthead of the Sun. They are unlikely ever to be asked, either. It is ea
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 02.02.17

  03-02-2017 10:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  Resilience: The Spirit of 9/12
  We remember the fear and uncertainty of 9/11. ... But what do we remember of 9/12?  What do we remember of the long and arduous process that commenced the next day - the effort to restore calm, order and clarity?  How long did it take to achieve strategic thinking?... read more
  AJBlog: Audience Wanted Published 2017-02-02Classical music — the definition
  My students - in my Juilliard course on classical music’s future - came up with a defi
  
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• David Hockney and Robots: this week’s best UK exhibitions

  03-02-2017 10:30
  
  Tate Britain hosts the latest retrospective of the influential Yorkshireman’s work, while the Science Museum tackles our obsession with automataWhen David Hockney splashed into the swinging 60s in a gold jacket and pop art spectacles, he made more impact on the public than any British artist since William Hogarth. With his confident, funny and sexy early paintings of gay life, he helped to change British society. Then he went to LA and became its definitive painter of brainless palm trees
  
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• Live flesh: the fetish club art of Jo Brocklehurst – in pictures

  03-02-2017 08:00
  
  Jo Brocklehurst’s vibrant illustrations were sketched out in the corners of 80s fetish and punk clubs, immortalising a flamboyant subculture. Her work is exhibited in the show Nobodies and Somebodies at the House of Illustration Continue reading...
  
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• Come Together, Right Now. National Arts Marketing, Development and Ticketing Conference -- March 16-18 in NYC

  03-02-2017 02:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  Now is not the time to wait to see what will happen in America and the arts industry. Now is the time to come together and set the course for stronger, more inclusive, more vibrant organizations. Sign-up by 2/16 & bring your team for 1 low price.Is your organization ready to be transformed? Then join us for the conference highlighted by Diane Ragsdale’s Keynote, "Transformation or Bust: When Hustling Ticket Sales and Contributions is Just Not Cutting It Anymore." The entire conference,
  
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• Marketing Manager - Aspen Music Festival and School

  03-02-2017 02:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Aspen Music Festival and School seeks a full-time, year-round Marketing Manager to work as part of the five-member Marketing and Communications team in Aspen, Colorado. Reports to VP for Marketing and Communications. The position is full-time and year-round in Aspen, Colorado.Duties include:
  MARKETING/SALES
  With VP for Marketing and Communications, set overall marketing goals and ticket revenue targets.
  Set strategies and tactics for reaching goals in each area.
  Set detailed schedules for pr
  
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• What Exactly Does "Critical Thinking" Mean These Days?

  03-02-2017 00:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  These days, the term “critical thinking” has been overused to the point where it has almost ceased to mean anything in particular. It has become more of a popular educational catchphrase, so that even the people who use it often don’t know exactly what they mean by it.
  
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