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• Assistant Manager / Pottery Cafe / London

  12-03-2019 12:13
  The Pottery Café are looking for a new Assistant Manager, to work at their Battersea branch. The role is full-time, Tuesday-Saturday, 9:45am-6:15pm.
   
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• The Real Story Of What Happened At Pace Gallery

  28-06-2026 15:00 via hyperallergic.com
  
  Said one hastily removed artist, “They assured me many times — as recently as two days before the article in the New York Times came out — that there would be no public announcement. … It’s a callous breach of trust.” – Hyperallergic
  
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• Arena Stage Boots Its Black, Woman Artistic Director On The Night One Of Her Championed New Musicals Opens

  28-06-2026 14:30 via nytimes.com
  OK, Hana Sharif resigned under great pressure. She wrote: “The board and I arrived at a crossroads — one defined not by a lack of shared love for this institution, but by differing visions for how Arena Stage should meet the future.” – The New York Times
  
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• Quibi Was Maybe Just A Few Years Before Its Microdrama Time

  28-06-2026 14:00 via seattletimes.com
  “With vertically shot episodes often running one to three minutes, microdramas have emerged as one of entertainment’s fastest-growing formats. That’s drawing interest from celebrities, creators and major media companies looking for new ways to reach audiences.” – Seattle Times (AP)
  
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• If Reading Books Feels Hard Right Now, It Might Be Time To ‘Rewild’ Your Brain

  28-06-2026 13:30 via theatlantic.com
  
  “Reading a good book, I feel like a really hysterical chihuahua barking and trembling, and then someone picks me up, and then I just go limp. You know? Like I’m just calm. … And when I’m there, and when I can actually feel stillness.” – The Atlantic
  
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• When The Curator Retires From A Weird But Cool, Isolated But Well-Trafficked, Museum Along The Columbia River

  28-06-2026 13:00 via orartswatch.org
  
  The Maryhill Museum of Art, on the Washington State side of the Columbia River Gorge, is 150 miles upriver from Portland. Its permanent collection is eclectic, to put it mildly. So how does it get exhibitions, or even help revitalize its own collection? – Oregon ArtsWatch
  
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• Brent Ott talks about developing exhibits and programming to celebrate America 250

  27-06-2026 17:48 via artsjournal.com
  Brent Ott, Chief Operating Officer of The Henry Ford, talks about their historic exhibits and programming celebrating America 250.
  
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• Why Ballet Is A Natural Subject For Horror Movies

  26-06-2026 20:50 via faroutmagazine.co.uk
  “Anyone who spends even a day with a professional dancer or a ballet troupe could likely come away and already have the core of a body horror flick ready just from seeing all the injuries strapped up and ignored, or hearing the stories of cut-throat auditions.” – Far Out
  
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• A New Print-On-Demand Books Program For Libraries

  26-06-2026 20:31 via publishersweekly.com
  
  Ingram Library Services and Penguin Random House have announced a print-on-demand program designed to supply libraries with popular backlist titles.  – Publishers Weekly
  
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• How A24 Blew Its Cool Factor With One Corporate Announcement

  26-06-2026 20:03 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  The indie movie studio was, for a sizable set of Americans under 40 or so, about as cool as a studio could get. (You never saw anyone wearing a Focus Features hoodie, right?) Then A24 announced a $75 million deal with Google’s AI venture, DeepMind. The fan base is furious. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Crystal Bridges Gets a New Chief Curator

  26-06-2026 19:44 via artnews.com
  
  Courtenay Finn is currently chief curator and director of programs at the Orange County Museum of Art, which merged with the University of California, Irvine last year. She has previously served as the chief curator at moCa Cleveland in Ohio, senior curator at the Aspen Art Museum in Colorado, and curator at Art in General in New York.
  
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• Mel Brooks At 100

  26-06-2026 19:31 via apnews.com
  
  “I wanted to keep the party going. I wanted to keep the happiness and joy and explosions of laughter going into a dour part of our lives, not our childhood anymore,” Brooks recalled. “ – AP News
  
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• Why “Music You Can See” May Be The Future

  26-06-2026 19:15 via nytimes.com
  I playfully ask them, “Why do you have to see it?” But I know why. They have grown up seeing music as much as hearing it. With iPhones steeping the modern human being in images 24/7, listening to extended forms of music without visual illustration will appeal ever less. – The New York Times
  
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• After 83 Years, Norman Rockwell’s White House Painting Is Finally On Public View

  26-06-2026 19:04 via usatoday.com
  
  In 1943, Rockwell painted a four-panel portrait of people waiting to see President Roosevelt. The artwork, called So You Want to See the President!, spent 40 years hanging in the West Wing; last year the White House Historical Association purchased the piece, which is now in a nearby museum. – USA Today
  
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• HBO’s “The Pitt” Gives Hollywood Production Hope

  26-06-2026 18:44 via msn.com
  The Emmy Award-winning drama has also become an urgently needed Hollywood success story at a time when much of the local film and TV industry has left California for other states and countries. – Los Angeles Times (MSN)
  
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• Report: Chicago’s Creative Sector Is The City’s Third-Largest Industry

  26-06-2026 18:31 via wbez.org
  
  The creative sector is Chicago’s third-largest industry and accounts for nearly 213,000 jobs, according to a new economic impact study released Thursday by Arts Alliance Illinois, a statewide advocacy organization. – WBEZ
  
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• The Thinking Style That’s Susceptible To Extremism

  26-06-2026 18:15 via psyche.co
  I’ve found that some of the most rigid thinkers describe themselves as spectacularly flexible while the most flexible people are often unaware of their own adaptability. This is why, instead of relying on asking people how rigid they think they are, I began studying people’s unconscious thinking styles. – Psyche
  
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• Broadway’s Most Famous Restaurant Has Been Bought By Broadway’s Biggest Theater Owner

  26-06-2026 18:02 via ny.eater.com
  
  After almost a century as a small private business, Sardi’s was officially acquired this week by the company that was already the restaurant’s landlord — the Shubert Organization, owner of 17 Broadway theaters. The legendary eatery has now closed for renovations and is expected to reopen in November. – Eater
  
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• Getting Back To When Music Induced Physical Reaction In Your Body

  26-06-2026 17:44 via theguardian.com
  Bettina Varwig’s research focuses on how 17th and 18th-century listeners responded to music. “When you read about how music affected listeners in Bach’s time, their testimonies are striking in their bodily intensity. Music contracted their innards and made their hearts leap.” – The Guardian
  
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• Suno Offers “Incubator” Program For Artists Using AI For Music

  26-06-2026 17:31 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  The new program, called Spark, will include grants, mentorship and marketing support, Suno said, as the company said it’s looking to “help more artists turn ideas into finished projects, connect those projects with fans, and build new opportunities to grow their careers both on and beyond Suno.” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• New Festival Redefines Lincoln Center Dance

  26-06-2026 17:15 via nytimes.com
  For years, there has been too much ballet at Lincoln Center, which I say as someone who loves the form. Modern dance is part of the center’s history, too, and now it is finally being given a stage. – The New York Times
  
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• Actress Ann Blyth, The Dastardly Veda In “Mildred Pierce,” Is Dead At 98

  26-06-2026 17:05 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  A former child actor who trained as an operatic soprano, Blyth had a busy career in Hollywood through the 1940s and ‘50s and worked in television in the ‘70s. She’s best remembered for her Oscar-nominated performance as the “cheap and horrible” daughter of Joan Crawford’s character in Mildred Pierce. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Unpublished Sacred Music By Donizetti Discovered In Archive

  26-06-2026 16:33 via gramilano.com
  
  A researcher cataloguing the music collections of the Diocese of Bergamo discovered a four-page setting of the Vespers psalm Dixit Dominus, scored for three male voices a cappella, written by the young Donizetti sometime between 1818 and 1821. – Gramilano (Milan)
  
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• Arkansans Raised Millions To Keep PBS On The Air There. Now Arkansas Is Cutting Some PBS Shows Anyway.

  26-06-2026 16:01 via arktimes.com
  
  “Arkansas TV, formerly Arkansas PBS, is cutting and moving PBS news programming to make room for homegrown shows filmed in Arkansas, once again pulling the old switcheroo on folks who hoped their generous donations would prevent this very thing from happening.“ – Arkansas Times
  
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• At Henry Louis Gates’s “Finding Your Roots,” How They Handle Finding A Bombshell Piece Of Family History

  23-06-2026 21:01 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  Gates: “If … we found out that, let’s say, your daddy wasn’t your daddy but your daddy didn’t know, I have an ethics protocol; we would reach out to your publicist and say, ‘We’ve learned something in our research we need to discuss directly.’ And everybody knows it’s not good news.“ – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Remembering Clive Davis, Who Turned Hitmaking Into An Art Form

  23-06-2026 20:31 via latimes.com
  
  “I knew nothing about music,” he once said, looking back at his entry into the record business. Yet his instincts made him one of the surest spotters and nurturers of talent in pop history, with a long — and varied — line of success stories. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• After 25 Years, Choreographer Lucy Guerin Leaving Her Dance Company

  23-06-2026 20:03 via artshub.com.au
  She is creating a final solo work for herself — her first time onstage in 13 years — as a farewell, and she officially departs as artistic director of Lucy Guerin Inc at the end of this year. The company, based in Melbourne, has toured widely, from Paris to New York to Shanghai. – ArtsHub (Australia)
  
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• Is The Smithsonian Next?

  23-06-2026 19:44 via theatlantic.com
  
  From the start of the second Trump administration, the entire Smithsonian had been a target of those on the MAGA right who are preoccupied with expunging what they understand to be “wokeness” from prominent institutions.  – The Atlantic
  
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• Has Blogging Ceased To Matter?

  23-06-2026 19:31 via noahpinion.blog
  
  Anyway, the reason I’m writing all of this is not to brag, but to complain. Over the last two years, I’ve felt like my job has become a bit less important than it used to be, for three reasons. – Noahpinion
  
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• The Next Bookstore?

  23-06-2026 19:15 via publishersweekly.com
  Samir Pail argues that the publishing industry is fundamentally flawed insofar as publishers and authors generate consumer demand, then hand buyers off to companies like Amazon, which takes a significant cut and then owns the customer relationship. – Publishers Weekly
  
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