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• A Final Comedy Lesson From Robin Williams

  08-08-2022 14:45 via latimes.com
  
  “Laughter at your own expense — unleashed when you need it most — can heal what ails you, keep your ego in check and even speed your path to enlightenment.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• The Heifetz International Music Institute seeks Executive Director.

  17-03-2026 00:58 via artsjournal.com
  Aspen Leadership Group is proud to partner with the Heifetz International Music Institute in the search for an Executive Director.Reporting to the Board of Directors, the Executive Director will serve as the chief executive of the Heifetz International Music Institute, advancing the organization’s mission, safeguarding its financial and operational strength, and fostering an environment in which artistic excellence thrives. Reporting directly to the Board of Directors, the Executive Direc
  
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• The Florida Orchestra seeks Vice President of Development.

  17-03-2026 00:56 via artsjournal.com
  Aspen Leadership Group is proud to partner with The Florida Orchestra in the search for a Vice President of Development.As a proven leader in nonprofit philanthropy with a record of securing transformational gifts, the Vice President of Development (VP) will play a central role in advancing the financial strength and long-term sustainability of The Florida Orchestra. The VP will lead strategies to generate more than $8 million annually in contributed income while helping position the organizati
  
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• Director of Philanthropy – Ballet Arizona working with Management Consultants for the Arts

  17-03-2026 00:48 via artsjournal.com
  Photo Credit – Frida, photo credit: Rosalie O’Connor. Courtesy of Ballet Arizona.Celebrating its 40th year and launching a new artistic vision under Artistic Director Daniela Cardim, Ballet Arizona is poised for ambitious growth. The organization seeks a strategic and effective fundraiser to serve as its next Director of Philanthropy, joining a talented senior leadership team to help propel the company towards greater artistic creativity and organizational growth. The Director of Ph
  
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• Kennedy Center Board Votes To Close For Two Years

  16-03-2026 22:38 via artsjournal.com
  The full scope of the renovations is not entirely clear. But Mr. Trump has said that both structural and internal work was needed, noting on Monday that the building’s heating system would be “ripped out in its entirety,” and that new theater seating and new marble would be installed. – The New York Times
  
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• How Did A Tiny Obscure Art School Get A $2M NEH Grant?

  16-03-2026 19:02 via nytimes.com
  The grant was about as large as the school’s annual budget. And like many of the agency’s other recent multimillion-dollar awards, it went to a handpicked recipient, outside the agency’s usual open competitive process. – The New York Times
  
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• History Of Triumphant Arches: An Empire In Decline

  16-03-2026 18:40 via theconversation.com
  Some of the most famous iterations in ancient Rome and Napoleonic France warn us of the tendency of republics to devolve into autocratic empires. – The Conversation
  
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• Think You Can Tell If That Song You Like Was Made By AI?

  16-03-2026 18:21 via theconversation.com
  The Afro-soul cover highlights a growing challenge — the difficulty identifying when generative AI has been used in production — and how audiences, platforms and artists are struggling to respond.
  
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• The Prestige Novel Is Dead

  16-03-2026 18:01 via lareviewofbooks.org
  Although the literary novel remains the touchstone for what “elite” cultural status might mean, its former midcentury monopoly on prestige, Brier claims, has been shattered. – LA Review of Books
  
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• How Math And Literature Are Closely Related

  16-03-2026 17:40 via cbc.ca
  Literature and mathematics have these strong connections because mathematics is all about structure and pattern. It’s the language we use to describe those things. – CBC
  
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• Study: Autocomplete Changes How People Write

  16-03-2026 17:21 via scientificamerican.com
  Overall, the study participants who saw the biased AI text shifted their positions toward those espoused by the AI. – Scientific American
  
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• That Wallpaper Music That Surrounds Us

  16-03-2026 17:01 via nytimes.com
  Sync, it’s called. Once it was known as library music; sometimes it’s called production music. It’s not really a genre. It’s a category, defined by its function: This is music that exists to be paired — synced — with video. That’s why it’s so ubiquitous. – The New York Times
  
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• He Was a No-Show at the Academy Awards But …

  16-03-2026 16:57 via artsjournal.com
  <a href="https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/2026/03/he-was-a-no-show-at-the-academy-awards-but.html" title="He Was a No-Show at the Academy Awards But …” rel=”nofollow”>. . . somehow he turned up in this collage.
  
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• How Barnes & Noble Became Popular Again

  16-03-2026 16:40 via theatlantic.com
  Barnes & Noble is experiencing a revival. It opened 60 new stores last year and plans to do the same this year. It is reportedly soliciting banks to handle an IPO. – The Atlantic
  
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• Trump Now Wants To Replace Columns On The Front Of The White House With Fancier Ones

  16-03-2026 16:20 via washingtonpost.com
  The Trump-appointed head of a federal arts commission is proposing to replace them with a more ornate style favored by President Donald Trump. Those more decorative columns, a style known as Corinthian, are considered the most luxurious in classical architecture and appear on buildings such as the U.S. Capitol and the Supreme Court. – Washington Post
  
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• Recommendations For Deeply Depressing Irish Books To Read On St. Paddy’s Day

  16-03-2026 16:00 via electricliterature.com
  “These days the air has a keen edge. A desperate edge. What forms can the imagination take when power seems nonsensical and cruelty deliberate? These questions haunt—and should haunt—our fiction.” – Electric Lit
  
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• This Tiny Art School In Queens Just Got Two Million Dollars From Trump’s NEH

  16-03-2026 15:30 via nytimes.com
  The school’s founder and artistic director says the grant “represents a chance to further what he calls his lifetime mission to inspire a return to a classical style of art that last reigned supreme in an era before the Civil War.” – The New York Times
  
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• What’s Going On With Yannick Nezet-Seguin, Wolfgang Dorner, And The Vienna Phil?

  16-03-2026 15:00 via cooperm55.wixsite.com
  “We’re left to wonder why a noted Price advocate, one of the world’s greatest orchestras, and a respected composer thought it was a good idea, or even remotely acceptable, to suppress Florence Price’s own melodies, harmonies, rhythms, and forms and substitute Dörner’s own for them.” – John Michael Cooper
  
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• In A Really Tough Market, Some Indie Publishers Are Finding Ways To Survive

  16-03-2026 15:00 via publishersweekly.com
  Jane Austen card decks (themed by book), collaborations with London publishers, old imprints reabsorbed or renamed, and audio – some indie publishers are finding ways to stay alive and even, ina few cases, grow. – Publishers Weekly
  
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• When A ‘Sold Out’ Performance Space Means Nothing More Than Marketing

  16-03-2026 14:45 via english.elpais.com
  Where are the bodies? – El País English
  
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• What Happens When A Tiny Library In A Tiny Coastal Town Gets A Windfall

  16-03-2026 14:30 via orartswatch.org
  A donor “gave $150,000 to the library in honor of her late husband, … who had been a math professor,” with one catch: the library had to take his library of 1,000 mathematics books. – Oregon ArtsWatch
  
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• For The First Time In Oscars History, A Woman Wins For Cinematography

  16-03-2026 14:15 via usatoday.com
  “The filmmaker, who also worked with Coogler on Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, also asked that all the women in the theater stand up during her speech, thanking them for their support and honoring all the other female trailblazers.” – USA Today
  
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• On Set When No One’s Performing

  16-03-2026 14:00 via newyorker.com
  “The fact that stills photographers often find themselves shooting very famous subjects at what might be sensitive, stressful moments on set is only one reason that the job requires a discreet, diplomatic presence.” – New Yorker
  
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• Boston Philharmonic To Shutter As Director Benjamin Zander Retires

  13-03-2026 13:35 via bostonclassicalreview.com
  Next season, 2026-27, will be the last for both the Boston Philharmonic and its associated youth orchestra. The identity of the organization is thoroughly bound to that of Zander, the conductor who founded both ensembles and is now 87. – Boston Classical Review
  
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• WBUR Boston Rejects Suggested Merger With GBH, City’s Other Public Radio Station

  13-03-2026 13:16 via wbur.org
  In response to a statement to The Boston Globe by GBH’s CEO proposing a merger, WBUR CEO Susan Low said that she and the station’s board have “very closely” examined the idea but that “WBUR and GBH are also very different organizations. And we believe the community benefits from that.” – WBUR (Boston)
  
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• One Of Boston’s Two NPR Outlets Says It’s Open To Merging With The Other

  13-03-2026 13:01 via bostonglobe.com
  The CEO of GBH, which operates one of the U.S.’s leading PBS television stations as well as a public radio outlet, says that merging with WBUR would end competition for donors and more efficiently utilize resources in the wake of federal defunding of public broadcasting. – The Boston Globe
  
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• Paramount and Live Nation/Ticketmaster Won Big Last Week: Here’s why Orchestras and Theatres and Museums (and Consumers) Lost

  12-03-2026 22:39 via artsjournal.com
  Two huge culture industry deals in the past week, both in entertainment, and maybe they don’t seem connected. Certainly not connected to non-profit arts. But these are exactly the kind of culture infrastructure deals that should worry anyone in the commercial or non-profit culture business because they impact us all. Here’s why.
  
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• Big Candy Makers Are Cutting Way Back On Cocoa In Their “Chocolates”

  12-03-2026 20:02 via theguardian.com
  The climate crisis has caused devastated cacao farming in West Africa, causing huge price spikes and volatility in the cocoa commodity market — leading companies like Hershey’s and Cadbury, which manufacture inexpensive chocolate products for ordinary consumers, to start using other ingredients. – The Guardian
  
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• There Are Fewer Than 10 Full Time Book Critics Left

  12-03-2026 19:31 via derekkrissoff.substack.com
  By some measures, there are as many as 1 million books published annually in the US, and it’s a number that doesn’t show any signs of slowing down. The result is that there is intense competition for the small slice of the review landscape that remains. – Book Work
  
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• Organ Harvesting: Nonprofit Is Rescuing Church Instruments From Decrepitude And Dismantling

  12-03-2026 19:03 via yahoo.com
  Every year, over 400 church organs in the UK alone are sent to the junkyard or become unplayable due to neglect. The organization Pipe Up is rescuing some of those instruments which can be made playable at relatively little expense, then sending them to new owners ranging from London to the Philippines. – BBC (Yahoo!)
  
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