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• Philharmonia Manager

  20-04-2016 23:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Philharmonia Manager manages and implements all administrative functions necessary for the effective operation of the Yale School of Music Philharmonia and New Music New Haven programs. This includes managing production logistics, financial operations, and serving as production & business liason with external production companies, venue management and guest artists.
  The responsibilities of the position include:
  Serving as a professional orchestra manager with responsibility for coordinat
  
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• Art Collector and ‘Galerie’ Magazine Founder Lisa Fayne Cohen Fawned Over Jeffrey Epstein in Emails: ‘There Is No One Else Like You’

  23-03-2026 22:01 via artnews.com
  Documents in the Justice Department’s release of files related to Jeffrey Epstein appear to show ties between the financier and convicted sex offender and a New York art collector and magazine publisher, and her developer-investor husband.Lisa Fayne Cohen and her husband, Jimmy Cohen—founder, CEO, and chairman of the real estate and development firm Hudson Capital Properties—were in close contact with Epstein in 2015 and early 2016, long after his crimes were a matter of public
  
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• Newly Translated 2,000-Year-Old Graffiti Proves Presence of Indian Visitors to Egypt’s Valley of the Kings

  23-03-2026 21:32 via artnews.com
  Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, on the banks of the Nile River, is one of the most popular travel destinations in the world. Newly translated graffiti reveals just how long visitors have come from far and wide to this region, and felt compelled to mark their presence by inscribing their names on the walls of tombs.Earlier this month, Live Science reported on the findings from a February conference held in Chennai, India, that translated several examples of 2,000-year-old graffiti found on the
  
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• Alex Ross: Saying Goodbye To The Kennedy Center

  23-03-2026 20:02 via newyorker.com
  Tempting as it is to blame Trump for the Kennedy Center’s fate, he does not bear sole responsibility. The idea of a national arts center was always more of a noble dream than a reality. – The New Yorker
  
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• Egyptian Archeologists Find 3,000-Year-Old Coffins of Temple Chanters in Luxor

  23-03-2026 19:46 via artnews.com
  Archeologists working near Luxor have uncovered 22 painted wooden coffins containing mummies, according to the Daily News Egypt, which reported the news in February. The well-preserved sarcophagi date to Egypt’s Third Intermediate Period (1077–664 BCE).The archeological mission, which was affiliated with the Supreme Council of Antiquities and the Zahi Hawass Foundation for Heritage and Antiquities, also found a group of eight papyrus scrolls, some with their seals intact, in a potter
  
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• Journalists Sue Kari Lake Over VOA Propaganda

  23-03-2026 19:40 via npr.org
  “The Voice of America has been breaching the Constitutional and statutory rules that require that outlet not to push propaganda or censorship,” one of the lead attorneys on the lawsuit, Norm Eisen, tells NPR. – NPR
  
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• Preservation Groups File Lawsuit Against Closing Of The Kennedy Center

  23-03-2026 19:21 via npr.org
  The lawsuit seeks to have the White House and the Kennedy Center board comply with existing historic preservation laws and secure Congress’ approval before moving ahead with the renovations. – NPR
  
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• Liberal Arts

  23-03-2026 18:35 via artsjournal.com
  (Kudos to the art director who chose that American flag done with handprints – it’s perfect).
  I enjoyed reading Becca Rothfield’s “Listless Liberalism” in The Point, in which she reviews Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s Abundance, and Cass Sunstein’s Liberalism, and also asks the question of why the aesthetics of a liberal society, barely addressed
  
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• Should We Care Whether A Book Is Soft- Or Hard-Cover?

  23-03-2026 18:20 via lithub.com
  Recently Barnes & Noble has tried to convince more publishers to publish paperback originals, particularly for YA and middle grade books. But choosing a format to please one vendor, no matter the size of that vendor, is limiting, especially when smaller indie bookstores run on such tight margins in the first place. – LitHub
  
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• Is Using AI Really Just Plagiarism?

  23-03-2026 18:02 via newyorker.com
  A chatbot is not (or not yet) an individual, and therefore bears no moral responsibility, but to lay hold of what it delivers, and to pass it off as one’s own work, could be construed as handling stolen goods. – The New Yorker
  
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• See Inside the Venice Biennale’s Newly Renovated Central Pavilion Ahead of the 2026 Edition

  23-03-2026 17:53 via artnews.com
  The Central Pavilion of the Venice Biennale, located within the Giardini della Biennale, has undergone a complete renovation ahead of the opening of the show’s 2026 edition in May.The total budget for the renovation was €31 million ($36 million); public funding was supplied by the the Italian Ministry of Culture’s National Plan for Complementary Investments of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR). The project is also part of the Culture Ministry’s “Great
  
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• Statue Removed from Delaware During Black Lives Matter Protests to Be Reinstated in Washington D.C.

  23-03-2026 17:43 via artnews.com
  Six years after the city of Wilmington, Delaware, took it down in the midst of Black Lives Matter protests that roiled the United States, the National Park Service plans to reinstate a statue of Caesar Rodney—a signer of the Declaration of Independence who enslaved more than 200 people at the plantation he owned—in Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C.As reported by the Washington Post, which cited Interior Department documents obtained by the paper, the statue’s resurrection is a
  
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• Trump Installs Christopher Columbus Statue on White House Grounds

  23-03-2026 17:40 via artnews.com
  A statue of Christopher Columbus was installed early Sunday on the White House grounds, as part of President Trump’s effort to restore the explorer’s public standing after monuments to him were removed across the country in 2020.The sculpture was placed on the north side of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building facing Pennsylvania Avenue, according to the New York Times. It is a replica of a statue that protesters in Baltimore tore down and dumped into the Inne
  
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• New Book: Inside Stephen Sondheim

  23-03-2026 17:40 via theatlantic.com
  Along with his happy student-teacher alliance with Hammerstein, the defining association of Sondheim’s life was his tortured relationship with the mother he described as a “monster,” among harsher words. – The Atlantic
  
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• Kennicott: Trump is Wreaking Havoc On DC Architecture

  23-03-2026 17:20 via washingtonpost.com
  These proposals, the rush to realize them, the stacking of key oversight groups with Trump loyalists and flunkies and the collaboration of firms like Shalom Baranes Associates, have upended and effectively destroyed the process of design review — which has until now preserved Washington as a monumental, picturesque capital. – Washington Post
  
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• This Year’s Whitney Biennial: No Challenges

  23-03-2026 17:01 via hyperallergic.com
  I got the sense that the Whitney Biennial is hiding from the world today instead of reflecting on it. – Hyperallergic
  
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• East Village Brownstone Where Mark Rothko Once Lived Now for Sale as Luxury Condominiums

  23-03-2026 16:59 via artnews.com
  Mark Rothko and his first wife, Edith Sachar, put down roots in a small apartment within a Greek Revival townhouse in Manhattan’s East Village neighborhood in the 1930s. There, the late abstract expressionist—famously known for his color field technique—created the painting titled “Thru the Window,” inscribing the back with the building’s address, “313 E 6th,” along with his signature.The entire multifamily building sold for $45,000 in the 197
  
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• A Bastardized Classical Architecture For America’s 250th

  23-03-2026 16:40 via chicagotribune.com
  One of the White House’s most compelling features has always been its domestic scale and ornamentation. In a city where architectural bombast has often been favored over architectural quality, the White House has stood apart for its grace and modesty.  – Chicago Tribune
  
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• Venice’s Mayor Warns that Russia’s Pavilion Will Be Closed if It Peddles Propaganda at Biennale

  23-03-2026 16:33 via artnews.com
  Russia has been warned by Venice’s mayor, Luigi Brugnaro, that if its pavilion peddles propaganda at the upcoming biennial, it will be shutdown.Brugnaro was addressing media at the opening of the Venice Biennale’s revamped Central Pavilion, which cost €31 million and took 16 months to complete. “If the Russian government were to carry out propaganda, we would be the first to close the pavilion,” Brugnaro told the Ansa press agency.Russia’s decision to reopen it
  
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• Light Art Installation Returns to San Francisco Bay Bridge, ‘Pre-Stonewall Street Queen’ Artist Agosto Machado Has Died: Morning Links for March 23, 2026

  23-03-2026 16:29 via artnews.com
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesLIGHTS, ART, ACTION. After a three-year absence, a popular light art installation has returned brighter and revamped to the San Francisco Bay Bridge, in a sign of “commitment” to the arts, reports ABC 7. During a Friday lighting ceremony, artist Leo Villareal, who designed the work first installed in 2013, said its much-awaited, upgra
  
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• How Paris Has Been Reborn (For The Better)

  23-03-2026 16:20 via bloomberg.com
  Visitors will discover that it’s a dramatically different place than a decade ago: lines of bikes and throngs of pedestrians where lanes were once jammed with cars, greenery encroaching on former pavement, summer swimming in the once-grimy Seine river — and a corresponding drop in air and water pollution. – Bloomberg
  
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• Yeni Kripto Kazino Saytları’ların Yüksəlişi: Rəqəmsal Qumar Transformasiyası

  23-03-2026 16:02 via zouchmagazine.com
  Rəqəmsal dövr tamamilə yeni bir eranı komfor, güvənlik və inkişaf gətirdi və bazarları bütün dünyada düzəltdi. Bu inkişaflardan biri kripto kazino saytları’ların meydana çıxmasıdir, bu dəbə minmə təkcə qumar sahəsini dəyişdirir həmçinin kriptovalyutaların mənimsənilməsini sürətləndirir. Ye
  
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• What Are The Differences Between Humans Using ‘Artificial Language’ And AI Using It?

  23-03-2026 16:00 via theconversation.com
  “Human English contains persistent, if subtle, linguistic patterns of variation and readability. By contrast, AI uses what I call exam English – a rather formal, dense English. … It is less varied and less readable. People perceive it as robotic, but they also perceive it as smart.” – The Conversation
  
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• Inside The New New Museum

  23-03-2026 15:30 via theguardian.com
  “The seven story addition introduces three levels of gallery space that plug directly into existing floors. Not only does this create much needed airflow, it allows the museum to remain open during exhibition turnover.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Change Your Life: Start A Music Group

  23-03-2026 15:00 via nytimes.com
  Yes, even if you’re not great at it (yet). “Make it up as you go along. If nobody else wants to sing, you sing. Be a zealot about keeping your instrument in tune but nothing else. Force yourself to write one new song a week.” – The New York Times
  
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• When A Sports Venue Demands Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars From Governments, We Need To Know About Its Architecture

  23-03-2026 14:45 via orartswatch.org
  “The Moda Center has always been a candidate for upgraded design. Which is to say nothing of the 30-acre Rose Quarter property the arena is part of: an unequivocal urban-planning disaster. … The Rose Quarter needs radical reconstructive surgery even more than the arena.” – Oregon ArtsWatch
  
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• In Hong Kong for Art Basel? Don’t Miss These Local Galleries and Museums

  23-03-2026 14:32 via artnews.com
  In 2025, nearly 100,000 people—collectors, curators, and the merely curious—descended on the archipelago of Hong Kong for Art Basel Hong Kong, the biggest and busiest art event on the global calendar. But woe unto any fairgoer in 2026 who confines their time to the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre: Even if its 240 galleries dazzle and exhaust in equal measure, Art Basel anchors a constellation of exhibitions and events during&nbs
  
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• The Guys Who Got Fired From The Han Solo Movie Took Some Lessons Into Project Hail Mary

  23-03-2026 14:30 via nytimes.com
  For one thing, they met some of the Hail Mary crew on Solo. “We met Neal Scanlan and the creature shop team that we worked with to make Rocky, for example. We had such a great experience with them, making these aliens and robots together.” – The New York Times
  
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• Trump Has Columbus Status Installed On The White House Grounds

  23-03-2026 14:15 via nytimes.com
  It’s “is a replica of one that protesters in Baltimore tore down and dumped into the city’s Inner Harbor in the summer of 2020. The statue’s marble pieces were retrieved from the harbor, and a Maryland artist used them to guide the creation of the replica.” – The New York Times
  
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• Hong Kong Readies for Art Week With Optimism for a Rebound—and a Healthy Dose of Caution

  23-03-2026 14:11 via artnews.com
  Hong Kong’s art market is staging a cautious comeback in 2026, as industry players bet that collectors will return for the city’s marquee art week after years of political upheaval and pandemic-driven isolation.At the macroeconomic level, signs of recovery have emerged since late 2025, spanning high-end residential real estate in the city to equity markets. A recent report by Morgan Stanley suggested that prolonged instability in the Middle East could prompt further capital and talen
  
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