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• San Francisco Jazz Organization seeks Chief Executive Officer

  27-12-2024 23:40 via artsjournal.com
  Position SummaryThe Chief Executive Officer (CEO) will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of the organization’s business functions, including education, finance, contributed and earned revenue, business operations, as well as supporting artistic vision and programming.
  Reporting to the Board of Trustees, the CEO will lead a diverse and talented team, ensuring that the organization’s mission is fulfilled in a financially sustainable and artistically excellent manner. In partner
  
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• Market House Theatre seeks Managing Artistic Director

  27-12-2024 23:37 via artsjournal.com
  Position SummaryThe Managing Artistic Director will serve as the visionary leader of Market House Theatre, reporting directly to the Board of Directors. Overseeing a dedicated team that includes the technical director, box office manager, theatre and dance education directors, bookkeeper, development director, and guest directors.
  The Managing Artistic Director will guide both artistic and strategic endeavors. In collaboration with staff and the Board, they will spearhead efforts to update the o
  
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• Filmmaker Shyam Benegal, Pioneer Of India’s New Wave, Is Dead At 90

  27-12-2024 20:57 via variety.com
  
  “Known for his incisive and socially conscious storytelling, … (Benegal) left an indelible mark on the film industry, blending art with activism and bridging the gap between mainstream and (art) cinema. He was instrumental in shaping India’s New Wave cinema movement, also known as Parallel Cinema, in the 1970s.” – Variety
  
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• The Impressionistic Bob Dylan Biopic

  27-12-2024 20:44 via theguardian.com
  
  “The movie is full of things that didn’t happen, but the way they happen in those scenes feels right to me.” – The Guardian
  
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• ARTnews Picks The Defining Artworks Of 2024

  27-12-2024 20:31 via artnews.com
  
  A bias toward contemporary art has pervaded museums across the globe for decades now, but as this year proved, work from past eras can just as much define the present as pieces made in the past couple years. – ARTnews
  
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• On owning many books

  27-12-2024 20:22 via artsjournal.com
  “He [Gabriel Oak] also thought of plans for fetching his few utensils and books from Norcombe. The Young Man’s Best Companion, The Farrier’s Sure Guide, The Veterinary Surgeon, Paradise Lost, The Pilgrim’s Progress, Robinson Crusoe, Ash’s Dictionary, and Walkingame’s Arithmetic, constituted his library; and though a limited series, it was one from which he had acquired more sound information by diligent perusal than many
  
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• How Much Does Our Language Shape The Ways We Think?

  27-12-2024 20:15 via newyorker.com
  
  Many researchers find another reason to worry about the spread of English: the prospect of cognitive hegemony. Languages, they argue, influence how we perceive and respond to the world. The idiosyncrasies of English—its grammar, its concepts, its connection to Western culture—can jointly produce an arbitrary construction of reality. – The New Yorker
  
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• How Lutherans Saved The Organ For (And From) The Reformation

  27-12-2024 20:02 via historytoday.com
  Early on, many in the Protestant movement saw organ music as just another Popish frippery; even Luther disapproved of it at first. He changed his mind, of course, and the presence of the organ in church became a major point of conflict, and even identity, between Lutherans and Calvinists. – History Today
  
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• America’s Elite Education Problem

  27-12-2024 19:15 via nytimes.com
  
  Elite education has lost the trust of many Americans, in no small part because of how it solidifies the advantages of wealth. The fact that many schools still give preferential treatment to children of their alumni just adds insult to injury. – The New York Times
  
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• How George C. Wolfe Remade “Gypsy” Into A Tragedy

  27-12-2024 19:04 via vulture.com
  
  Adam Moss sits in on rehearsals and talks with the five-time Tony-winning director and his actors (including Audra McDonald and Joy Woods, of course) on how much Wolfe changed the show while changing so little of it. (And no, it’s not all about race, though that’s certainly part of it.) – New York Magazine
  
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• Where We Went Wrong: Effort As The Goal Rather Than Accomplishment

  27-12-2024 18:44 via nytimes.com
  
  The problem is that we’ve taken the practice of celebrating industriousness too far. We’ve gone from commending effort to treating it as an end in itself. We’ve taught a generation of kids that their worth is defined primarily by their work ethic. – The New York Times
  
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• Of Course AI Won’t Replace Human Creativity. We’ve Been Struggling To Define Genius For A While

  27-12-2024 18:31 via nytimes.com
  
  Culture dictates human action far more than individual humans dictate cultural production. To understand great works of art as human achievements is just as backward as understanding the beauty and variety in nature as the work of divine hands. – The New York Times
  
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• The Replica Shop: Paris Atelier Makes Exacting Reproductions Of Some Of The World’s Most Famous Art

  27-12-2024 18:15 via nytimes.com
  
  The atelier’s commissions have included replacing a third of Versailles’s garden statues with copies created from marble-dust resin and supplying Jeff Koons with five classical sculptures for the artist’s 2013 series “Gazing Ball.” – The New York Times
  
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• People Won’t Listen To Facts. Our Information Economy Has Overwhelmed Us

  27-12-2024 18:15 via vox.com
  
  No amount of evidence, on virtually any topic, is likely to move public opinion one way or the other. We can attribute some of this to rank partisanship. But there’s another, equally vexing problem. We live in a media ecosystem that overwhelms people with information. – Vox
  
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• Do Gender-Neutral Acting Award Categories Shortchange Female Actors?

  27-12-2024 18:06 via thewrap.com
  
  There’s been some concern expressed about this, so journalist Steve Pond looked into four high-profile awards that have gone gender-neutral in the past few years. In this admittedly small sample size, are actresses being shortchanged or do things basically even out? – TheWrap
  
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• Eight Ways Artists Have Incorporated AI Into Their Work

  27-12-2024 17:45 via androidpolice.com
  A Ditto Music survey of over 1,200 artists found that nearly 60% use AI in their projects. Tools like AIVA generate compositions based on specific parameters, replicating complex musical patterns. – Android Police
  
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• How Hollywood’s Struggles Are Impacting LA’s Economy

  27-12-2024 17:30 via nytimes.com
  
  When the strikes ended, workers in Hollywood hoped their schedules would finally fill up again. But for many people, things only got worse. – The New York Times
  
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• The Very First Film Version of “Peter Pan,” Now 100 Years Old

  27-12-2024 17:05 via nytimes.com
  
  It was considered a blockbuster back in 1924, and its producers were pioneers in movie-related merchandising. It faded from public view after the talkies arrived, but a print was rediscovered in upstate New York in the 1940s, and a restored version has been getting centennial screenings this year. – The New York Times
  
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• After Ten Years Away, Trey McIntyre Is Working With A Dance Company Again

  27-12-2024 16:31 via dancemagazine.com
  
  “After his Trey McIntyre Project gave its final performances 10 years ago, choreographer Trey McIntyre didn’t think he’d work in-depth with another dance company. But then the Los Angeles–based BODYTRAFFIC changed his mind.” – Dance Magazine
  
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• The State Of The Dallas Arts District, 40 Years On

  27-12-2024 16:03 via msn.com
  “This once-desolate northeast corner of downtown attracts millions of guests annually to renowned cultural institutions housed in buildings such as I.M. Pei’s Meyerson Symphony Center and Renzo Piano’s Nasher Sculpture Center. Still, the district is not without its challenges.” – The Dallas Morning News (MSN)
  
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• A Red King, Vandals, And A Very Pricey Banana: The Biggest Art Controversies Of 2024

  27-12-2024 15:32 via cnn.com
  
  Also, the artwork thrown in the trash by accident, the four-year-old who accidentally smashed an ancient jar, the grown man who deliberately smashed an Ai Weiwei, the museum staffer who sneaked his own art onto the walls, and the women-only-no-men-allowed exhibition with the fake Picassos that weren’t spotted for months. – CNN
  
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• Italy’s Largest Set Of Medieval Mosaics Is Restored

  27-12-2024 15:04 via bbc.com
  
  The 12th-century Byzantine-style mosaics in the cathedral of Monreale, on a hill overlooking the Sicilian capital, Palermo, are exceeded only by those in Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. They cover almost 69,000 square feet and their gold leaf collectively amounts to almost five pounds of solid gold. – BBC
  
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• Salman Rushdie’s “Satanic Verses” Is Back In India’s Bookstores After 38-Year Ban

  27-12-2024 14:30 via theguardian.com
  Then-prime minister Rajiv Gandhi blocked publication and import of the novel not long after it was released in 1988. Last month, when the government couldn’t produce the relevant paperwork, a court overturned the ban. At least one New Delhi bookstore reports that sales are good. – The Guardian
  
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• Syracuse Opera Files For Liquidation Bankruptcy

  27-12-2024 14:06 via broadwayworld.com
  
  The company, which canceled all performances and laid off staff last last year, filed earlier this month for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, the legal step toward liquidating its assets and closing itself down. – BroadwayWorld
  
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