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• Florida College Goes To War With DeSantis After Governor Appoints New Oversight

  12-01-2023 23:32 via newrepublic.com
  In a tweet, Christopher Rufo said the group will seek to a create a new core curriculum, “abolish ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion’ and replace it with ‘equality, merit, and colorblindness,’” hire faculty “with expertise in constitutionalism, free enterprise, civic virtue, family life, religious freedom, and American principles.” – The New Republic
  
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• NYC’s Shed Restructures Its Leadership

  12-01-2023 23:01 via nytimes.com
  “It has become more and more clear to me that, to really take us on to the next chapter, I need to dedicate my entire time to the artistic direction of this organization,” Alex Poots said. – The New York Times
  
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• Oregon Shakespeare Festival Loses Top Leadership And Will Restructure

  12-01-2023 22:01 via opb.org
  OSF has recently been trying to offset deficits from the pandemic’s impact, including reducing its number of shows each season, shortening its calendar for performances and diversifying the shows it offers. “OSF realizes it must invest in a strategy that will impact the long-term success of the organization.” – Oregon Public Broadcasting
  
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• Mellon Foundation Picks A New Arts Program Officer

  12-01-2023 21:32 via mellon.org
  Stephanie Ybarra joins Mellon following her tenure as Artistic Director of Baltimore Center Stage, where she broke ground as the country’s first Latina artistic director of a League of Resident Theaters (LORT) member theater. – Mellon Foundation
  
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• The Great Unheralded Wits Of Social Media? State Agencies

  12-01-2023 21:01 via theguardian.com
  Washington State Dept. of Natural Resources: “Update: The Twitter wildfire is at 44 billion acres and 0% contained.” NE Ohio Regional Sewer District: “now that sports betting is legal in ohio please remember we’ve been throwing your money down the drain for 50 years with much better returns” – The Guardian
  
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• What Daniel Barenboim Accomplished In Berlin

  12-01-2023 20:31 via van-magazine.com
  In Berlin, the former-musical-prodigy-turned-artistic-director increasingly became a cultural politician. In keeping with his self-image, he found his equals at the federal (rather than the state) level. – Van
  
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• The Funny Little Things About Franz Kafka That Max Brod Excised From His Diaries

  12-01-2023 20:03 via nytimes.com
  Brod sanitized and polished quite a bit when he published his friend’s journals (which Kafka had wanted burned), and a new, uncensored translation reveals a lot: the author’s visits to brothels, his bi-curiosity, his crying at movies, his strong opinions about theater, his thing for noses. – The New York Times
  
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• The Meritocracy? It Doesn’t Exist. It’s All About Networking

  12-01-2023 19:30 via theatlantic.com
  The experience had clued him in to something: In elite circles, not all opportunities were advertised. There were rooms that the rest of us didn’t know existed, and those rooms came with possibilities never advertised by the career-services office. – The Atlantic
  
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• Wayne McGregor Looks Inside His Fellow Choreographers’ Notebooks

  12-01-2023 19:02 via anothermag.com
  McGregor, who directed this year’s Venice Biennale Danza, shares comments and images from the notebooks of 16 of the dance-makers he worked with, from Merce Cunningham to Azsure Barton to Sidi Larbi Charkaoui to the indigenous Australian troupe Marrugeku to flamenco iconoclast Rocío Molina. – AnOther Magazine
  
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• Ruth Asawa’s inspirational art lessons gave us a sense of the possible | Letter

  12-01-2023 18:47
  Tim Hitchcock on the lifelong impact of what he learned as a child at the Alvarado School Arts Workshop in San FranciscoI would like to thank Katy Hessel for her article on Ruth Asawa and art education (‘Art makes a person broader’: what sculptor Ruth Asawa knew that Rishi Sunak doesn’t, 9 January). In 1968, at the age of 10, and for three years after that, I had the huge privilege of being part of Ruth Asawa’s Alvarado School Arts Workshop in San Francisco.Ruth was an in
  
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• The Golden Globes Still Have A Long Way To Go To Redeem Themselves

  12-01-2023 18:32 via npr.org
  In the end, the Globes had to make three arguments Tuesday: that it has survived its past scandals to become a better organization; that it still matters as an important benchmark in an awards season topped by The Oscars. And that it’s still Hollywood’s coolest party. – NPR
  
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• Spreading The Word: Fans Are Learning And Using The Na’vi Language From “Avatar”

  12-01-2023 18:04 via salon.com
  Paul Frommer, the linguist who created from scratch the language spoken by the inhabitants of the planet Pandora in the hit films, talks about constructing a usable and credible vocabulary and grammar and about how a community (of Earthlings) has developed around teaching and communicating in Na’vi. – Salon
  
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• Tracking A Precipitous Decline In Innovation

  12-01-2023 17:31 via theatlantic.com
  Across broad landscapes of science and technology, the past is eating the present, progress is plunging, and truly disruptive work is hard to come by. Despite an enormous increase in scientists and papers since the middle of the 20th century, the number of highly disruptive studies each year hasn’t increased. – The Atlantic
  
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• Baltimore Center Stage’s Director To Depart, With Ousted Director Of Chicago’s Victory Gardens To Fill In

  12-01-2023 17:01 via msn.com
  Stephanie Ybarra is resigning, effective March 31, to become a program officer at the Mellon Foundation. Taking over as interim artistic director is Ken-Matt Martin, whose firing by the Victory Gardens board last June, and the ensuing turmoil, was 2022’s biggest story in US regional theater. – MSN (The Baltimore Sun)
  
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• Rebranding The Met: A Five-Point Plan To Make The Metropolitan Opera A Must-See

  12-01-2023 16:35 via parterre.com
  Observing the company’s worrisome slump in ticket sales and Peter Gelb’s announced plans to focus more on contemporary works and reduce the number of performances (especially of revivals), Parterre Box contributor Dawn Fatale suggests further ways to get the FOMO factor working in the Met’s favor again. – Parterre Box
  
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• Art at the Intersection: Work as Dance!

  12-01-2023 16:07 via artsjournal.com
  
  
  Founder and Artistic Director of Forklift Danceworks Allison Orr talks about the community-based dance company and its many collaborations. Forklift creates community-based dance performances with workers that show their skilled movements and tell the often unheard stories of the people whose jobs sustain our daily lives.  The workers collaborate with the artistic team at Forklift to […]
  
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• Leading Muslim Advocacy Group Says University Was Wrong To Fire Professor Who Showed Medieval Persian Images Of Muhammad

  12-01-2023 16:03 via news.artnet.com
  “The Muslim Public Affairs Council has published a statement urging reinstatement of an art history professor who was fired from Hamline University in Minnesota after showing her class Medieval paintings depicting the Prophet Muhammad.” Indeed, MPAC said she should be thanked for “educating students … in a critically empathetic manner.” – Artnet
  
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• Barry Grove, Who Helped Make Manhattan Theatre Club Into A Powerhouse, Will Step Down After 48 Years

  12-01-2023 15:32 via nytimes.com
  He started with the then-fledgling Off-Off-Broadway company as managing director in 1975. Since then, with artistic director Lynne Meadow, Groves has led MTC to operate two theaters, on and off Broadway, producing works that have won a total of 28 Tonys and seven Pulitzers. – The New York Times
  
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• There Will Be No Deal To “Loan” The Parthenon Marbles Back To Greece, Says Prime Minister

  12-01-2023 15:04 via reuters.com
  Scuttling reports from last week of secret talks over a deal, premier Kyriakos Mitsotakis restated his nation’s longstanding position that the ancient sculptures, having been stolen by Lord Elgin in the 19th century, are not Britain’s to return and belong to Greece by right. – Reuters
  
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• After Four Years On The Outside (This Time Around), The US May Rejoin UNESCO

  12-01-2023 14:31 via theartnewspaper.com
  “An article in the $1.7 trillion Omnibus Appropriations Bill passed on 22 December … paves the way for the Biden administration to rejoin and finance the UNESCO organisation — the United Nations culture and education body — as well as pay the huge debt accumulated in membership dues.” – The Art Newspaper
  
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• “Banshees”, “Everything”, “Ozark” Lead SAG Award Nominations

  12-01-2023 14:05 via theguardian.com
  The Banshees of Inisherin and Everything Everywhere All at Once each received five nods: one for lead performance (Colin Farrell and Michelle Yeoh, respectively), three for supporting performances, and best ensemble, the union’s equivalent of Best Picture. With four nominations, Ozark led the TV categories. – The Guardian
  
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• ‘She conducted her life like it mattered’: the bold drawings of Rebecca Horn

  12-01-2023 07:35
  An expansive new exhibition pulls together the wild and daring work of an artist who overcame Nazi Germany and a range of maladies to become a one-of-a-kind talentAmong the names represented by powerhouse gallerist Sean Kelly is Marina Abramović, the Serbian conceptual and performance artist who has collaborated with James Franco and Jay-Z, and whose blockbuster MoMA exhibition The Artist is Present gave her fans an opportunity to sit across from the star and stare into her bewitching eyes.
  
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• Director of Marketing – Flint Institute of Music

  12-01-2023 06:38 via artsjournal.com
  FIM (Flint Institute of Music) is seeking a seasoned Director of Marketing with extensive experience in performing arts marketing and communications. The Director will develop, implement, and evaluate all marketing campaigns at FIM to support audience development, earned revenue, patron loyalty, brand awareness as well as equity and inclusion goals across its multi-disciplinary season and […]
  
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• James E McGhee Endowed Visiting Professor

  12-01-2023 06:31 via artsjournal.com
  7517BR College of Art and Design CAD School of Photo Arts and Sciences Faculty Type (Tenure Status): Non-Tenure-Track Visiting Faculty Rank: Visiting Assistant Professor Employment Category: Fulltime Detailed Job Description The School of Photographic Arts and Sciences invites applicants to apply for a Non-Tenure Track Visiting position for the James E. McGhee Endowed Visiting Professor. […]
  
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• ‘It’s been invisible’: Spanish artist brings embroidery to the streets

  12-01-2023 06:30
  Valencian artist Raquel Rodrigo says her huge cross-stitch works adorning buildings are asserting a feminine artWhether it’s a clutch of yellow flowers wrapped around a window in Spain or dozens of pink roses cascading down a house in Switzerland, there’s a note of familiarity that threads through Raquel Rodrigo’s street art.For much of the past decade, the Spanish artist has been bringing her singular style to cities around the world, hauling a technique that stretches back mi
  
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• Lauders’ Orders: Sibling Rivalry at Leonard’s & Ronald’s Dueling Shows at Metropolitan Museum & Neue Galerie

  12-01-2023 00:52 via artsjournal.com
  Whether by sheer coincidence or deliberate plan, New York City is currently the venue for simultaneous ambitious museums shows
  
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• Is Campus Free Speech Really Dead?

  12-01-2023 00:01 via newrepublic.com
  Are thought, argument, and debate really dying? The picture painted in the media is of a horrified, unqualified yes. But it’s a big country out there. Is wokery crushing free inquiry everywhere? – The New Republic
  
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