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• Director of Development and Marketing – School of American Ballet

  16-09-2024 22:33 via artsjournal.com
  Organization OverviewThe School of American Ballet (SAB) at Lincoln Center, founded by George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein, is the preeminent ballet school in the country. Our mission is to train professional dancers for careers in classical ballet. We provide the resources for a diverse pool of students to train at the highest level – with 15-25 a year going on to dance for New York City Ballet, our official but independent company, and other major ballet companies worldwide. SAB has a
  
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• Box Office Manager/Marketing Assistant

  16-09-2024 22:02 via artsjournal.com
  Reports To: Director of Audience Engagement
  Location: Stamford, CT. Office based with flexibility for virtual working.
  Type: Regular part-time, position with periodic evening and weekend hours
  Pay Rate: $25/hourThe Orchestra office is closed between Christmas and New Year and on Fridays from July 4 to Labor Day. The orchestra recognizes all federal holidays as well. The organization is mindful of ensuring a good work/life balance with great flexibility for personal issues and time off as require
  
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• London City Ballet Resurrected

  16-09-2024 21:52 via nytimes.com
  
  Christopher Marney talked to regional theaters around Britain to make sure there was demand for ballet. (There is!) And he discovered that no one held the rights to the London City Ballet name. He also met with former company dancers. – The New York Times
  
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• This Year’s Booker Prize Shortlist

  16-09-2024 21:27 via bbc.com
  
  Five of the six-strong shortlist are women, with authors from five countries represented, including the Netherlands for the first time. – BBC
  
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• Graham Boyd obituary

  16-09-2024 20:55
  When abstract expressionism arrived in Britain in the 1950s, Graham Boyd, who has died at the age of 96, was one of few artists who embraced the libertine scale and dynamism of American painting. Over a 70-year career, based latterly in Chipperfield, Hertfordshire, he made his own explorations of colour and light in non-figurative paintings and sculpture.Born in Bristol to Herbert, a leather tradesman, and Hilda (nee Duckett), Graham’s path to abstraction was not straightforward. After two
  
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• Executive Director, American Visionary Art Museum

  16-09-2024 20:12 via artsjournal.com
  About American Visionary Art MuseumRenowned globally as an extraordinary cultural institution, the American Visionary Art Museum (AVAM) is uniquely dedicated to interdisciplinarity and features visionaries of all sorts. From awe-inspiring, massive sculptures to intricately detailed mosaics, every inch of the museum brims with creativity and wonder, offering an experience far beyond that of a traditional art museum.Consistently lauded as a trailblazer, and congressionally-designated as America&rs
  
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• Why Playing Is A Key To Creativity

  16-09-2024 19:23 via hbr.org
  
  Studies with creative writers and physicists reveal that about a fifth of their most important ideas occur when they’re mind-wandering, not focused on a specific task. This is why spending time in nature or simply gazing out of a window can enhance creativity. – Harvard Business Review
  
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• The Two Biggest Threats: Climate Change And AI

  16-09-2024 18:44 via 3quarksdaily.com
  I would argue that climate change and advanced AI are the only two risks where parts of their probability curve include singularities where change is so fundamental that we cannot forecast beyond it. All other risks are a continuation of the status quo, to a greater or lesser extent. – 3 Quarks Daily
  
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• Why “Shogun” Became Such An Emmy-Winning Hit

  16-09-2024 18:32 via nytimes.com
  
  The 1975 novel of the same name by James Clavell inspired a similarly lauded mini-series in 1980. But the current telling is different in crucial ways — and its popularity demonstrates how sharply America’s attitudes toward Japan have changed over the past 50 years. – The New York Times
  
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• Why Do Some Composers Have Long Dry Spells?

  16-09-2024 18:15 via psychologytoday.com
  Research on the creativity trajectories of eminent composers has revealed a number of factors that affect productivity over a career. These include the ages at which they began studying music, began composing, and wrote their earliest acknowledged masterworks. – Psychology Today
  
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• ‘Every face tells a story’: Teresa Margolles on putting 740 trans lives on the fourth plinth

  16-09-2024 18:15
  
  The artist has a studio attached to a morgue in Mexico City and uses fluids from corpses to make art. She talks about her latest project – placing the face casts of trans people in a giant cube in Trafalgar SquareTeresa Margolles is standing in a warehouse on the Thames estuary, surrounded by large boxes marked “Frágil”. They have come from Mexico, holding the face masks of 370 transgender, non-binary and gender nonconforming people. Cast in white plaster, each bears tra
  
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• Underground Railroad: Walt Whitman Bears Witness

  16-09-2024 18:05 via artsjournal.com
  <a href="https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/2024/09/underground-railroad-walt-whitman-bears-witness.html" title="Underground Railroad: Walt Whitman Bears Witness” rel=”nofollow”>These
  
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• Sales Of Vinyl, CDs keep Rising

  16-09-2024 18:01 via musicradar.com
  
  The interesting thing is that the CD comeback seems to be largely the work of younger consumers. 43% of CD buyers are under 35. Vinyl is still rising in sales, but with prices of a vinyl album pushing £30 these days, Gen Z consumers may be turning to the CD album as a cheaper alternative. – MusicRadar
  
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• The Bigger Role Music Is Playing In This Year’s Elections

  16-09-2024 17:44 via theconversation.com
  
  As a scholar of music’s role in American politics and patriotism, I’ve never seen music assume as much electoral importance as it has in recent months. – The Conversation
  
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• Why Do Some Songs Get Stuck In Our Heads?

  16-09-2024 17:34 via nytimes.com
  
  Scientists don’t fully understand why earworms are so hard to shake. But certain songs are more likely than others to set up shop in our heads. And the propensity to catch them can depend on what you’ve recently listened to and what you’re doing. – The New York Times
  
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• The Movie Business Is Feeling – Perhaps Understandably – Apocalyptic These Days

  16-09-2024 17:00 via artsjournal.com
  “Apocalypse is not always world-historical. Our lives are full of personal apocalypses; our nations experience them repeatedly, often in times of great distress. We learn who we are, what we stand for and what really matters in apocalyptic times.” – The New York Times
  
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• Amid Multiple Allegations Of Sexual Abuse, Screen Adaptations Of Neil Gaiman’s Work Paused Or Canceled

  16-09-2024 16:30 via theguardian.com
  
  The list is grim (not nearly as grim as the list of women who have accused the popular author, of course). Dead Boy Detectives: Canceled. Good Omens: Paused. And the Disney adaptation of smash hit The Graveyard Book? “Put on hold.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Tito Jackson, Original Member Of The Jackson 5, Has Died At 70

  16-09-2024 15:45 via variety.com
  
  “Jackson played guitar, sang and, of course, danced his way into homes worldwide as the Jackson 5 became an international sensation in the late ’60s and early ’70s, with a string of smashes hits that included four straight No. 1 hits.” He was touring as recently as last week. – Variety
  
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• Famous Feminist Harvard Square Mural At Risk

  16-09-2024 15:30 via hyperallergic.com
  
  Joyce Kozloff’s homage to New England arts “features hundreds of interlocking hand-painted tiles containing scenes from New England’s landscape and motifs referencing the region’s history, like gravestones, weathervanes, sail boats, houses with steeply pitched roofs, and silhouettes of Indigenous individuals and European settlers.” – Hyperallergic
  
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• This Rip-Roarer Of A Farce Has Lasted For Ten Years On London’s West End

  16-09-2024 15:15 via bbc.com
  
  The Play That Went Wrong “was first performed at The Old Red Lion, a 60-seat fringe theatre in Islington, London, with the writers not thinking it would go much further.” That was … not the correct take. – BBC
  
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• The Historian Who Understood Immediately That Putin’s Invasion Was A Threat To Ukraine’s Cultural Heritage

  16-09-2024 15:00 via theguardian.com
  “Marushchak has achieved something quite extraordinary. He has organised the evacuation of dozens of museums across Ukraine’s frontline – packing, recording, logging and counting each item and sending them to secret, secure locations away from the combat zone.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• The Memes That Could Start – Or Perhaps End – Wars

  16-09-2024 14:45 via theatlantic.com
  
  “Digital disinformation is a growing shadow industry. It thrives because of the weak enforcement of content-moderation policies, the increasing influence of social-media figures as political intermediaries, and a regulatory environment that fails to hold tech companies accountable.” And it’s getting worse. – The Atlantic
  
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• Documentary Filmmakers Are Ready To Have The AI Discussion

  16-09-2024 14:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Hm: “Rather than rejecting the use of generative AI outright, the group encourages consideration based in four overarching principles: the value of primary sources, transparency, legal considerations and ethical considerations of creating human simulations.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• AI Chatbots Aren’t Great For Much, But They Might Know This One Weird Trick

  16-09-2024 14:15 via niemanlab.org
  
  That trick is getting people who believe in conspiracy theories to find some exits out of their internet-driven rabbit holes. Importantly, recent “studies suggest that, contrary to the common belief that people ‘down the rabbit hole’ are beyond rescue, they can actually be brought back.” – Nieman Lab
  
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• Disney And DirecTV End Their Dispute

  16-09-2024 14:00 via latimes.com
  
  At least for now, customers of satellite TV won’t be deprived of college football, The Bear on Hulu, or another rewatch of Inside Out 2. “The nearly two-week battle has been costly. Thousands of subscribers canceled their service during the blackout.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Was Last Night The Time For The Super Emmy To Make Its Return?

  16-09-2024 13:45 via nytimes.com
  
  After all, who wouldn’t have enjoyed seeing The Bear face off against Shōgun, or The Crown’s Elizabeth Debicki go up against True Detective’s Jodi Foster? – The New York Times
  
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• Mia Farrow Tests Positive For COVID, So An Associate Director Goes On Broadway For Her

  16-09-2024 13:30 via nytimes.com
  
  The play – The Roommate – opened on Thursday with Farrow and Patti LuPone, but on Saturday, Farrow tested positive. Actor and associate director of The Roommate Marsha Mason went on, script in hand, on Sunday. – The New York Times
  
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• Somehow, Gillian Anderson Isn’t Tired Of Talking, Or Writing, About Sex

  16-09-2024 13:15 via slate.com
  
  The actor “has become a curator, rather than an object, of sexual fantasies. Want, a new book released next week, is a collection of anonymous fantasies written by women from all over the world, selected and introduced by Anderson.” But – not to make a pun – why would she want to do this? – Slate
  
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• Shogun Takes Four More Emmys To Make Its Total A Tad Bit Staggering

  16-09-2024 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Though The Bear also won quite a haul, and there were a few surprises, Shōgun snagged a record-breaking total of 18 Emmys over the two ceremonies. – The New York Times
  
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• The Cumbrian barn-stormer: is Kurt Schwitters’ last masterpiece finally about to be restored?

  16-09-2024 09:00
  
  The dada artist fled the Nazis and settled in a Lake District barn, which he turned into an astonishing work of art. We meet the replica-making craftsman hoping to make it whole again – and create a colony of artists in its luscious lakeland surroundingsAdam Lowe has created extraordinary replicas of great works from around the world, including one of Tutankhamun’s tomb and a full-size bronze replica of Dippy the diplodocus at the Natural History Museum in London. But he has now take
  
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• Charles Ives and National Understanding

  16-09-2024 04:51 via artsjournal.com
  
  Charles Ives, 150 years old, is immensely important right now. Why is that? What’s changed?
  For the Ives Bicentenary festivals
  
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