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• Toronto Symphony Orchestra – Vice-President, Marketing & Communications

  14-02-2022 23:57 via artsjournal.com
  OrganizationCelebrating its 100th anniversary during the 2022-2023 season, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (TSO) is one of Canada’s most respected arts organizations and plays a vital role in the city’s dynamic cultural life. Committed to serving local and national communities with more than 100 performances annually and expansive educational activities, the TSO offers a wide range of programming that resonates with multicultural and multigenerational audiences. More than 275,000 audi
  
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• Executive Director/Performing Arts Manager

  14-02-2022 23:43 via artsjournal.com
  The PositionThe City of Mountain View seeks an Executive Director/Performing Arts Manager for the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts (MVCPA) to succeed the Executive Director who retired in December of 2021.The Center is part of the Performing Arts Division of the City’s Community Services Department, responsible for the management and operation of the MVCPA, a three-theater complex owned by the City.The Executive Director is responsible for planning, organizing, directing, and c
  
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• Nothing But Guests: A Lineup Of Potential Music Directors For The NY Philharmonic

  14-02-2022 23:14 via nytimes.com
  
  For the next six weeks, the Philharmonic’s calendar is filled with nothing but guests. – The New York Times
  
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• What Does Your Musical Taste Say About You?

  14-02-2022 22:32 via theguardian.com
  
  Most half-serious music fans would consider their tastes eclectic. Which seems more feasible than a distinct personality type exclusively cleaving to one genre, and this being faithfully replicated across the globe. – The Guardian
  
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• Why Is Canada’s CBC Moving Away From Classical Music?

  14-02-2022 21:44 via thestar.com
  
  The orchestras and concerts have disappeared and so has most of the critical commentary associated with them. To be blunt about it, from a musical point of view, CBC English-language radio has dumbed down. – Toronto Star
  
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• How “Infodemics” Of Conspiracies Spread

  14-02-2022 21:01 via theconversation.com
  
  The current infodemic isn’t just familiar because of this history. Culture constantly recycles materials: stories are re-told, revised and re-told again. – The Conversation
  
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• Ghostbusters Director Ivan Reitman, 75

  14-02-2022 20:14 via variety.com
  
  Born in Czechoslovakia and raised in Canada (where he first met such young comics as his later stars Dan Aykroyd and Rick Moranis), Reitman made his first major impression as the producer of “National Lampoon’s Animal House” (1978). – Variety
  
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• Carmen Herrera obituary

  14-02-2022 19:38
  
  Cuban-American painter and sculptor who concentrated on goemetric abstraction and whose big break came at the age of 89Though the Cuban-American artist Carmen Herrera, who has died aged 106, spent 70 years refining her painting style into a severe yet seductive form of geometric abstraction, her pioneering work remained largely unrecognised by the art world until she was in her early 90s. From thereon, however, it received popular acclaim, with myriad museum exhibitions dedicated to the artist&r
  
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• Mexico Passed A Cultural Appropriation Law. It Doesn’t Seem To Be Working

  14-02-2022 19:32 via theverge.com
  
  To fight back against the plagiarism and dispossession of Indigenous art, Mexico has approved a law meant to protect and safeguard the cultural heritage of Indigenous and Afro-Mexican peoples and communities. Whether the law actually works is another question. – The Verge
  
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• St. Valentine Had Nothing To Do With Romance. So Why A Day?

  14-02-2022 18:44 via lithub.com
  
  The name was so popular that over 30 Valentines, not to mention “a few Valentinas,” ultimately achieved sainthood. However, no matter which Valentine you look at, their traditions and texts have nothing to do with love or courtship. – LitHub
  
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• When The Olympics Had Arts Competitions

  14-02-2022 18:01 via classicalwcrb.org
  
  Between the 1912 Stockholm Olympics and the 1948 London Olympics, artistic competition was a vibrant part of the summer Olympic games. There were five categories in which individuals could compete, with architecture, literature, painting, and sculpture joining music. – Classical WCRB
  
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• The Spotify Backlash Offers A Rare Glimpse Into The Struggles Of Working Musicians

  14-02-2022 17:00 via washingtonpost.com
  When the Joe Rogan controversy broke with Neil Young removing his music from Spotify, other musicians decided that enough was enough: They didn’t want Spotify’s incredibly meager paychecks anyway. But most musicians, unlike Young, don’t own and can’t remove their own music. – Washington Post
  
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• Romance Isn’t Only For Twenty-Somethings

  14-02-2022 16:30 via theatlantic.com
  
  Let filmmaker Nancy Myers show Hollywood the way: “Rom-coms typically suggest that thrilling courtship is for people in their 20s and 30s.” They fall in love and get married; the end. “In these films by Meyers, though, both protagonists delight in their divorced lives.” – The Atlantic
  
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• American Films Don’t Really Matter Much To China Anymore

  14-02-2022 16:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Hollywood is not pleased; China let in no Marvel movies at all last year. “There’s routinely Chinese comedies, Chinese dramas, Chinese science-fiction epics topping the box office.” – CBC
  
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• This Year’s Super Bowl Ad Theme Is Certainly Not Joy

  14-02-2022 15:45 via washingtonpost.com
  The bad, the good, and the deeply joyless — or, ad agencies have all of these creative people, and this is what they came up with? – Washington Post
  
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• The French Director Who’s Relieved That Netflix Asked Him For A Movie

  14-02-2022 15:30 via nytimes.com
  
  Jean-Pierre Jeunet, the director of Amélie who wouldn’t bow to Harvey Weinstein, loathes the pressure of theatrical openings. But “with Netflix, half a billion people can see it. … Even if just 1 percent of those people watch Bigbug, it would be huge.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Courtald Institute Is Under Fire For Its Cutesy, Weird Van Gogh Gifts

  14-02-2022 15:15 via theguardian.com
  
  Mental illness, hilarious: “Apart from the eraser ear, visitors can buy a £5 bar of soap, marketed as ideal for ‘the tortured artist who enjoys fluffy bubbles.’ An ’emotional first aid kit'” is £16 – but are depression, self-harm, and suicide really so funny?. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Pictographs May Be Beautiful To Look At, But They’re Not Now And Never Have Been Meant As Art

  14-02-2022 15:00 via orartswatch.org
  Petroglyphs and pictrographs aren’t “rock art” – they’re heritage objects. “Vandalism and theft is a physical attack on heritage objects. Another is appropriation of imagery that does not belong on t-shirts, mugs or any other tourist trap merchandise.” But what do they mean? – Oregon ArtsWatch
  
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• An Australian State Orchestra Finally Gets An Indigenous Conductor

  14-02-2022 14:45 via abc.net.au
  
  At least for a brief time: Noongar man Aaron Wyatt “conducted the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO) in Long Time Living Here, a musical Acknowledgement of Country.” And, Wyatt notes, for once he wasn’t the only Indigenous classical musician at the symphony. – ABC (Australia)
  
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• Ancient Roman Porta-Potties

  14-02-2022 14:30 via hyperallergic.com
  
  How do we know the pots weren’t used for something like olive oil instead of, well, feces? Ah, science: “Intestinal parasitic worms trapped in layers of mineralization from years of use as a chamber pot.” – Hyperallergic
  
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• The Sleep That Never Ends

  14-02-2022 14:15 via slate.com
  
  If we’re feeling surveilled, it might be because our electronic gadgets never really turn off. Instead, they’re “sleeping” – or perhaps lying in wait. “This is mostly a good thing, improving our lives, though I also worry it adds to our sense of disquiet.” Er … yes. – Slate
  
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• Looking For Electrifying, Informative, Creative Books For Black History Month?

  14-02-2022 14:00 via therumpus.net
  
  If you’re tired of the same old lists, the editors of The Rumpus will definitely surprise you with an eclectic list ranging from memoir to mystery to essay to short story that can go far beyond February’s short confines. – The Rumpus
  
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• Gurminder Sikand obituary

  14-02-2022 13:51
  
  My wife, Gurminder Sikand, who has died aged 61 of a cardiac arrest, was an artist whose work was characterised by images of strong women. This was true of her many self-portraits, her paintings influenced by Indian folk art, her watercolours of women hugging trees (inspired by the Chipko anti-deforestation movement), and latterly her drawings of muscular female figures whose physiques reflected Gurminder’s workouts at her city-centre gym in Nottingham.Born in Jamshedpur in India to Sohind
  
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• A Massive Renovation In Glasgow Goes Right For Visitors, And Wrong For Architecture

  14-02-2022 13:45 via theguardian.com
  
  The Burrell Collection “represents a road that turned out to be less travelled in modern British architecture, where buildings were considered as things composed, like music or poetry.” Or, rather, it did represent that road. After a five-year, £68 million renovation, things have changed. – The Observer (UK)
  
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• Julie Saul, Effervescent Manhattan Gallerist Who Began Championing Photographers Out Of An Upper West Side Apartment, Has Died At 67

  14-02-2022 13:30 via nytimes.com
  
  Saul, an art historian with the ability to be bluntly honest with her artists but also to protect them fiercely, created a place for mixed media artists, photographers, and artists from opera composers to the fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi. – The New York Times
  
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• Is Someone Taking These Little Free Library Books To Censor LGBTQIA Content?

  14-02-2022 13:15 via lithub.com
  
  Possibly! “This clear-out of the Little Queer Library comes at a time when Waltham Public Schools have placed two LGBTQ books under review, Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe and This Book is Gay by Juno Dawson.” The LGL owners have vowed to restock. – LitHub
  
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• Whips, manacles and a bedazzled dildo – the ICA’s controversial show on sex work

  14-02-2022 11:56
  
  Embroidered sex toys, dominatrix videos and a graphic rendering of a BDSM dungeon are among work by 13 artists in an exhibition that calls for decriminalisation“This is Not for Clients”, proclaims the title of a two-screen video installation. The significance of these words soon becomes clear as two nine-minute films – one silent – simultaneously unspool the story of a sex worker’s journey from “princess” to “dominatrix” to “low cost&rd
  
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• True romance: film, music and art to fall in love with on Valentine’s Day

  14-02-2022 11:00
  
  From a mind-scrambling breakup drama to a tender video game, our critics suggest popular culture inspired by matters of the heartYes, it all takes place after Joel (Jim Carrey) and Clementine (Kate Winslet) have bitterly broken up, but Michel Gondry’s inventive, mind-scrambling sci-fi Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is actually perfectly romantic. On the pretext of annihilating the painful memories of his ex, Joel relives them, learning not just how much this elective amnesia will co
  
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• Needle and dread: Louise Bourgeois’s disturbing textile works

  14-02-2022 10:00
  
  Severed heads, fraying stitches and exposed bodily orifices feature in a new exhibition of the artist’s late works in fabricOn a loose sheet of paper from 1995, when she was in her 80s, Louise Bourgeois wrote: “The beautiful clothes from your youth – so what – sacrifice / them, eaten by the moths.” The statement represented a turning point in the French-American artist’s life and work. Schooled in the importance of self-presentation since childhood, Bourgeois
  
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• ‘I just want to be left alone’: artist Daniel Lismore on life as a living sculpture

  14-02-2022 09:00
  
  The Coventry native is returning home for an exhibition of sculptures referencing everyone from Mariah Carey to Mickey Mouse. Just don’t call him the new Leigh Bowery In the basement of the Herbert Gallery in Coventry, Daniel Lismore is wearing a gown of pink chiffon and silver lame, a chainmail headdress and a full face of makeup, and wielding a glue gun over a brooch. It’s a striking scene for a Tuesday morning. But, for artist Lismore, it’s the norm. He is, as he says, a &ld
  
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