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• Arts Administrator / London School of Dramatic Art / London

  10-10-2019 13:39
  LSDA is a small and relatively new training centre and compared to larger, more established schools our budgets and resources are limited.  This does not, however, impact our standards or limit...
  
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• Artistic Director -Florida Studio Theatre working with Management Consultants for the Arts

  05-09-2026 01:08 via artsjournal.com
  Florida Studio Theatre (FST) is seeking a talented theater professional to lead the planning and execution of the organization’s core programming as Artistic Director. This newly conceived role will be part of a reimagined leadership team as FST’s long-serving Producing Artistic Director transitions into retirement and top leadership of the organization transfers to an Executive Director, a role effectively defined as a chief executive officer leading a team that includes the Artist
  
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• Managing Director -Florida Studio Theatre working with Management Consultants for the Arts

  05-09-2026 01:05 via artsjournal.com
  Florida Studio Theatre (FST) invites applications for its Managing Director, a role for individuals with strong talent for running complex, multi-venue producing operations. The new Managing Director will lead the day-to-day administration of an organization producing more than 1,600 performances annually across five stages, with three additional stages and expanded housing and campus operations coming online at the end of 2027 with the creation of the McGillicuddy Arts Plaza.
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• Bannanas are serious business

  05-09-2026 00:09 via artsjournal.com
  Good Morning,Maurizio Cattelan, the man who taped a banana to a wall and watched it sell for $6.2 million, says his work has always been serious — the trouble is that people stop at the joke (The Guardian). Today’s stories keep making his point: things filed under “decorative” turn out to be structural the moment someone tries to remove them.Public television, for instance, is not just programming. Stations are hardwired into FEMA’s alert system, and when Congress d
  
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• Maurizio “Banana Taped To The Wall” Cattelan Insists He’s Serious (And He’s Probably Right)

  04-09-2026 20:50 via theguardian.com
  The art world’s merriest prankster; the guy who duct-taped a banana to a gallery wall, called it “Comedian,” and saw it get eaten, sold for $6.2 million, and then eaten again — he says “My work has always been serious. The problem is people often stop at the joke.” – The Guardian
  
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• How Errol Flynn Beat The Rap For Statutory Rape

  04-09-2026 20:03 via yahoo.com
  Two credible allegations of sex with teenage girls would by themselves be enough to get Flynn cancelled today, especially since both complainants said that he forced himself on them. Unfortunately, that’s not how it played out in 1942 and ‘43 for Hollywood’s biggest star. – Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)
  
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• Why The Bayeux Tapestry Thrilled Ancient Audiences

  04-09-2026 19:44 via theconversation.com
  
  If we look at the meanings incorporated into different objects during the early medieval period, we see that the Bayeux tapestry is a visual form of the scop, an early medieval storyteller who told tales of heroes and great deeds, helping to preserve the oral tradition of the early English peoples. – The Conversation
  
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• Have We Wrecked Childhood?

  04-09-2026 19:31 via newyorker.com
  
  This doesn’t sound like a very nice life, does it? It’s an existence in which you’re micromanaged and surveilled, given almost no freedom or privacy, and put under constant pressure while, at the same time, being seen as incompetent and lazy.  – The New Yorker
  
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• Twilight Of The Oxford Dons

  04-09-2026 19:15 via wsj.com
  These same dons disdained Britain’s provincial universities—known pejoratively as Redbrick—as well as academics in the U.S., whom they scorned for going about their business with “woefully unnecessary seriousness.” A don, by contrast, was effortlessly successful. – The Wall Street Journal
  
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• This May Not Be The Great American Novel, But It’s Got To Be The Great American Manuscript

  04-09-2026 19:04 via apnews.com
  
  That would be the 120-foot scroll of architectural tracing paper on which Jack Kerouac typed — single-spaced — his original draft of On the Road. He produced the whole megillah in three very caffeinated weeks. – AP
  
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• Vancouver Police Break Into Gallery Mistaking Sculpture For Person In Distress

  04-09-2026 18:44 via vancouver.citynews.ca
  According to the VPD, a caller reported seeing a person’s feet sticking out from behind a counter and believed medical assistance was needed. – Vancouver City News
  
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• Iconic Salt Lake City Temple Has Been Transformed. Now A Rare Look Inside

  04-09-2026 18:31 via cnn.com
  
  After years of extensive renovation and structural upgrades, the LDS Church will open its signature temple April 5 to the public — Mormons and non-Mormons alike – for six months of unprecedented tours. – CNN
  
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• Far-Right German Party Attacks Iconic Bauhaus School

  04-09-2026 18:15 via apnews.com
  
  Attacks on Bauhaus by Alternative for Germany, also known as AfD, come as Saxony-Anhalt in eastern Germany is about to vote in an election that could see a far-right party take control of one of the country’s states for the first time since World War II. – AP
  
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• In Some Places, Congress’s Defunding Of Public TV And Radio Is Literally Dangerous

  04-09-2026 18:02 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  “Public television stations are not only broadcasters. They are physical infrastructure inside FEMA’s Integrated Public Alert and Warning System — one of the pathways that pushes AMBER Alerts, severe-weather warnings, and evacuation orders to the phone in your pocket.” And if rural communities lose their public stations, those alerts disappear. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• What Makes Good Writing For Video Games?

  04-09-2026 17:44 via washingtonpost.com
  “The kinds of writing that players encounter in games comes as a direct result of the medium’s competing needs and origins.” – Washington Post
  
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• What Will Become Of Broadway’s Ed Sullivan Theatre Now That Colbert Has Left?

  04-09-2026 17:28 via curbed.com
  
  What will happen to the stage where Elvis’s swiveling pelvis was kept demurely out of frame, where the Beatles made their American debut, where Jackie Mason may or may not have flipped the bird at the host, where Topo Gigio found inexplicable fame? – Curbed
  
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• Cleveland Orchestra Musicians Authorize Strike

  04-09-2026 17:15 via ideastream.org
  
   The bargaining committee said it’s far apart from management with regard to compensation, repetitive stress injuries and gaining a voice in the orchestra’s artistic direction. – Ideastream
  
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• How City Arts Funding In Chicago Stacks Up Against That Of Other Big U.S. Cities

  04-09-2026 17:01 via wbez.org
  
  “Across the country’s five largest cities, Chicago was the only one to cut the funding for its local arts agency during its most recent budget cycle. And while its spending dwarfs that of the larger Los Angeles, and trails only behind New York per capita, the pressure is mounting to do more.” – WBEZ (Chicago)
  
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• The Most Successful Work Of Art About 9/11? A Canadian Musical

  04-09-2026 16:33 via nytimes.com
  “In the quarter-century since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the horror of that day has inspired novels, films, television shows, paintings and sculpture. But the most enduring artistic response has been … Come From Away, about a small town with a big airport where nearly 7,000 travelers were diverted.” – The New York Times
  
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• Michael Sheen’s Welsh National Theatre Takes On A Subject That, Shockingly, No One Has Done Until Now

  04-09-2026 16:05 via theguardian.com
  That subject is the Welsh nobleman Owain Glyndŵr, who led a major rebellion against the English in the 15th century. Despite his fame, Sheen says, Glyndŵr’s story wasn’t taught in Welsh schools and nobody had ever staged it on a large scale before. – The Guardian
  
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• Enormous Hoard Of Viking Silver Found In Danish Guy’s Garden

  04-09-2026 15:36 via artnews.com
  
  “The anonymous homeowner was planning to build a new terrace in his garden when he found … a trove of 700 Viking Age silver objects and fragments. … The hoard contains numerous silver bars, as well as bracelets, 47 whole coins and fragments, a small Thor’s hammer, and various cut silver objects.” – ARTnews
  
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• CEO Who Turned Around Joffrey Ballet’s Finances To Step Down

  04-09-2026 15:04 via wbez.org
  
  “Since joining the Joffrey in 2013, (Greg) Cameron has brought financial stability to the organization, eliminating a budget deficit and establishing its first-ever endowment, which has grown to approximately $30 million. During his tenure, the operating budget more than doubled from $13 million to about $33 million.” – WBEZ (Chicago)
  
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• Just What Exactly Was Going On With Yayoi Kusama During Her Final Decade?

  04-09-2026 14:32 via nytimes.com
  Those years seemed to be productive and were certainly profitable: she became the highest-priced living female artist, famous all over the world. At the same time, she stopped seeing visitors, fired longtime assistants and was reportedly bedridden. How, and with whom, was she producing her late work? – The New York Times
  
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• Trump Officials Threaten To Withdraw All Aid If Smithsonian Doesn’t Drop “Ideological Agenda”

  04-09-2026 14:00 via yahoo.com
  “Administration officials ‘cannot in good conscience continue to support the Smithsonian under current leadership,’” said a letter from a key policy director and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum. “citing artifact loans, procurement assistance and discretionary grants as examples of federal support that could be at risk.” – The Washington Post (Yahoo!)
  
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• Who’s Left To Tell You What’s Good?

  01-09-2026 02:06 via artsjournal.com
  Good Morning,Judgment is having a day. A critic makes the case that a review’s job isn’t to relay one listener’s experience but to offer something “extra-human” — a perspective the concert itself can’t supply (San Francisco Classical Voice). Read that next to the discovery that academic papers are citing experts who don’t exist, names that language models reliably invent when asked to produce authorities in a field (404 Media).
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• Summer Movie Box Office Is On The Verge Of An All-Time Record

  31-08-2026 20:31 via deadline.com
  
  Currently, per Rentrak, the North American box office for the first Friday in May through EOD today stands at $4.598 billion, officially the second-highest summer ever behind 2013. If this summer is going to beat 2013’s all-time high, it has $158M to gross. – Deadline
  
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• What I Learned From China’s Robot Games

  31-08-2026 19:44 via writing.yaschamounk.com
  
  For the first hour or so, I found the Robot Games enthralling. What can robots already do, and where do they still fall short? Which robot will manage to crawl under an obstacle, and which will pitifully get stuck? But after a while, I suddenly realized that I had grown deeply bored. – Yascha Mounk
  
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• Why Would We Fear AI Music?

  31-08-2026 19:31 via newyorker.com
  
  It would be an understatement to say that the growing prominence of A.I. music is generating backlash—sometimes it seems this music generates nothing but backlash. – The New Yorker
  
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• What Happens When American Universities Try To Shrink Their Way To Profitability

  31-08-2026 19:15 via dissentmagazine.org
  
  What’s happening to the New School is an increasingly common story across all of higher education, hit by a perfect storm of financial and political pressures. Well-paid bosses, touting fiscal crises, seek to fire their way to profitability. – Dissent
  
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• Myles & Waldman Stalwart Performance Poets Together Again

  31-08-2026 18:55 via artsjournal.com
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