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• Sr. Director of Development – LA Opera

  28-06-2024 23:56 via artsjournal.com
  Contributed revenue is a primary source of LA Opera’s income, and the Senior Director of Development plays a critical leadership role related to the company’s fundraising strategy and operations.This position reports to the Executive Vice President/Chief Strategic Officer, and direct reports to this position include the Director of Major Gifts, the Associate Director of Major and Planned Gifts, the Director of Development Operations, and the Director of Leadership Gifts.The Senior Di
  
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• Small NYC Museums Are Closing

  28-06-2024 23:31 via nytimes.com
  
  Over the past few years, attendance levels fell and fund-raising efforts slowed as overhead costs and employee salaries rose. Many museums are doing fewer exhibitions per year in an attempt to tighten their belts. – The New York Times
  
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• Why America’s Tallest Building Will Be In Oklahoma

  28-06-2024 23:00 via dezeen.com
  
  Legends Tower recently gained approval from the city to have an unlimited height, and after a series of changes, the skyscraper is now slated to reach 581 metres (1,907 feet), making it the tallest in the world outside Asia and more than double the height of Oklahoma City’s second-tallest building. – Dezeen
  
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• NYC Rescinds $58M In Public Library Cuts; Libraries Will Reopen on Sundays

  28-06-2024 22:32 via gothamist.com
  The cuts to the more than 200 library branches had become a political thorn in the mayor’s side. In the weeks leading up to the budget agreement, Council members and library leaders mounted an aggressive pressure campaign. – Gothamist
  
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• YouTube Is Now Beating Netflix In The Streaming Wars

  28-06-2024 22:01 via cnbc.com
  
  YouTube made up nearly 10% of all viewership on connected and traditional TVs in the U.S. in May, according to Nielsen. Netflix ranked second, claiming 7.6% of viewership. – CNBC
  
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• ‘Give unconditional love to each other’: artist Marina Abramović silences Glastonbury for seven minutes

  28-06-2024 21:53
  
  Serbian performance artist tells Pyramid stage crowd to confront cyclical violence in thousands-strong ‘collaboration’It’s been home to some of the UK’s loudest singalongs, most propulsive rap lyrics and most cacophonous guitar solos. But the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury experienced something almost unprecedented in its history on Friday: total silence.The Serbian artist Marina Abramović, invited by festival organisers Michael and Emily Eavis, led the audience in wha
  
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• Kehinde Wiley’s Accusers Address Censorship Concerns

  28-06-2024 21:32 via hyperallergic.com
  Kehinde Wiley’s accusers have responded to concerns raised by the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) regarding museums’ decisions to rescind exhibitions of the artist’s work in the wake of sexual assault allegations. – Hyperallergic
  
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• Is Alessandra Ferri Now Dancing Her Final Role?

  28-06-2024 21:05 via apnews.com
  
  “It’s not merely that she’s now 61 — albeit dancing exquisitely — and sharing a stage with dancers one-third her age. It’s also that she’s about to embark on an exciting new chapter as artistic director of the Vienna State Ballet, and plans to devote herself ‘200%’ to the task.” – AP
  
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• Before And After AI (Beyond Mythologies)

  28-06-2024 20:29 via harpers.org
  
  Should we trust the most optimistic voices coming from Silicon Valley, AI could be the vehicle we use to create boundless wealth, cure all ills, heal the planet, and move toward immortality, while the pessimists warn that it may be our downfall. Has our time come to join the gods eternal? – Harper’s
  
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• Daniil Simkin Begins A Pivot From Dancing Ballet To Filming It

  28-06-2024 20:02 via pointemagazine.com
  
  “On June 25, his production company, Studio Simkin, unveiled one, a seven-minute dance film produced by (and starring) Simkin and choreographed by David Dawson. Shot during the pandemic in April 2021, one represents both a labor of love and where Simkin would like to see his career go eventually.” – Pointe Magazine
  
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• Three San Francisco Music Institutions Face Big Change, Bigger Challenges

  28-06-2024 19:33 via latimes.com
  
  All venues were full. All audiences I joined were infectiously rapt. Yet everywhere I went there was an inescapable feeling of doom, of disquieting calm before the storm. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Yet More Evidence That Beethoven Had Severe Lead Poisoning

  28-06-2024 19:04 via npr.org
  
  “(Testing revealed that) the levels of arsenic and mercury in Beethoven’s hair were slightly elevated. The lead levels, on the other hand, were a startling 64 to 95 times higher than the hair of someone today.” – NPR
  
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• The Debate Over Repatriating Looted Art Goes All The Way Back To 1815

  28-06-2024 18:06 via nytimes.com
  
  That September, officials from present-day Belgium and the Netherlands arrived at the Louvre to reclaim artworks plundered during the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars. “(It) is such a critical moment in art history that 200 years later it resurfaces again and again as debates over repatriation continue.” – The New York Times
  
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• What The Voices Of AI Tell Us

  28-06-2024 17:32 via nytimes.com
  
  Artificial intelligence stands accused of devastating the creative industries, guzzling energy and even threatening human life. Understandably, OpenAI wants a voice that makes people feel at ease using its products. What does artificial intelligence sound like? It sounds like crisis management. – The New York Times
  
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• Giants of Ukrainian art, Henry Moore goes to war and Chris Ofili’s myth making – the week in art

  28-06-2024 13:00
  
  A showcase of modernist greats from Malevich to Delaunay, the Yorkshire sculptor’s Blitz drawings and Ofili’s tapestry returns home to Scotland – all in your weekly dispatchIn the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine, 1900–1930s
  Some of the greatest art of the early 20th century has close connections with Ukraine. This survey of its modernist achievements includes Malevich (or Malevych), El Lissitzky and more.• Royal Academy, London, from 29 June to 13 October Cont
  
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• From Covid-inspired tag in Mexico to soccer with no ball in Iraq: Francis Alÿs on his joyous films of children’s games

  28-06-2024 11:29
  
  The artist has travelled the world documenting the way children play. As he puts his films on display, he talks about the way conkers cross cultures, password games in Ukraine, and whether ‘playing out’ is under threatWe use the expression “child’s play” to suggest that something is a doddle, yet the ways children entertain themselves are often the result of great ingenuity and resourcefulness. The Belgian-born, Mexico-based artist Francis Alÿs has spent more t
  
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• Montreal Has A Unique Culture. Gentrification Is A Threat

  28-06-2024 00:01 via thewalrus.ca
  
  Montreal’s role as a multilingual cultural hub—attracting talent from across the country and around the world in music, theatre, literature, dance, and even the videogame industry—has been due, in large part, to its lower cost of living. – The Walrus
  
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