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• R. I. P. : The National Endowment for the Humanities (1965-2005)

  05-04-2025 23:24 via artsjournal.com
  Since 2010 I have administered Music Unwound, a national consortium of orchestras and educational institutions funded by the National Endowment
  
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• Assistant Director of Digital and Lifelong Learning

  05-04-2025 18:00 via artsjournal.com
  Description:Juilliard Extension is seeking an Assistant Director of Digital and Lifelong Learning to support the operations of the Lifelong Learning Program and coordinate the production of digital education content. The Lifelong Learning Program brings the performing arts to older adults, ensuring that excellence in education reaches students wherever they are, with the belief that development is not limited by age.Reporting to the Dean of the Extension Division, this role is responsible for ma
  
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• Robert Taylor shares methods to inspire through diverse repertoire

  05-04-2025 16:59 via artsjournal.com
  Robert Taylor, Director of Bands and Professor of Conducting at Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music, shares his approach to diverse repertoire and inspiring individual voices in group ensembles.
  
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• On my radar: Nell Zink’s cultural highlights

  05-04-2025 16:00
  
  The Germany-based American novelist on being cheered up by a gulag memoir, the best Wagner around and how to encourage a nightingale into your gardenNell Zink was born in California in 1964 and grew up in rural Virginia. Before becoming a published novelist in her 50s, she worked a variety of odd jobs including bricklayer, technical writer and secretary, also running a postpunk zine. In 2014, with the help of Jonathan Franzen, she published her debut novel The Wallcreeper, followed closely by Mi
  
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• ‘Peering into the eyes of the past’: reconstruction reveals face of woman who lived before Trojan war

  05-04-2025 12:35
  
  Digital technology reveals ‘incredibly modern’ royal who lived 3,500 years ago in kingdom associated with Helen of TroyShe lived around 3,500 years ago – but facial reconstruction technology has brought a woman from late bronze age Mycenae back to life.The woman was in her mid-30s when she was buried in a royal cemetery between the 16th and 17th centuries BC. The site was uncovered in the 1950s on the Greek mainland at Mycenae, the legendary seat of Homer’s King Agamemnon
  
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• ‘The cabbage seemed isolated and alien’: Ieva Gaile’s best phone picture

  05-04-2025 11:00
  
  A lone vegetable stranded in a world of plastic transformed a trip to the supermarket into a photo opportunityIeva Gaile didn’t expect to take a photo on her trip to the supermarket. The lawyer, who lives in Vilnius, Lithuania, was working from home on the day and had popped next door for some lunch. When she spotted the errant cabbage placed atop a towering stack of water-bottle pallets, her reaction was instant.“Since I began photography I’ve developed a habit of always
  
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• From A Minecraft Movie to Black Mirror: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

  05-04-2025 07:00
  
  Jason Momoa and Jack Black get building in the video game spinoff, while Charlie Brooker’s dystopian anthology goes onboard the USS Callister againA Minecraft Movie
  Out nowYou know how it is – you’re hanging out minding your own business when you’re pulled through a random portal into a three-dimensional world made up of voxels. That’s the fate that befalls Jason Momoa, Sebastian Hansen, Emma Myers and Danielle Brooks, where they meet Jack Black in this adaptation o
  
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