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• Halle Venues Operations Officer / Halle Concerts Society / North West

  30-07-2019 17:13
  We are seeking an enthusiastic and organised person to work in the Venues Department of the Hallé Concerts Society, one of the country’s most distinguished and exciting orchestras. The...
  
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• James Murdoch Buys “New York” Magazine And Vox

  21-05-2026 14:01 via apnews.com
  Rupert Murdoch’s younger, more liberal-leaning son has purchased, for a reported-but-unconfirmed $300 million, roughly half of the current Vox Media: New York magazine and its verticals (among them Vulture, The Cut, and Curbed), the Vox.com website, and the Vox Media Podcast Network. – AP
  
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• Executive Director – NXTHVN via TOC Arts Partners

  21-05-2026 06:57 via artsjournal.com
  About the Opportunity
  NXTHVN seeks an Executive Director to provide visionary leadership at a defining moment in the organization’s evolution. Founded in 2018 by acclaimed artist Titus Kaphar and impact investor Jason Price, NXTHVN has grown rapidly into a nationally recognized institution that weaves together residencies and fellowships for visual artists, professional advancement, exhibitions, and community-rooted economic development. The next Executive Director will partner with the f
  
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• The book about truth that made things up

  21-05-2026 04:14 via artsjournal.com
  Good Morning,The author of a new book about how AI corrupts truth has admitted that AI fabricated some of the quotes in it (The New York Times). You couldn’t make it up — though, apparently, a machine could. Another story reports on sham AI-generated “local news” sites now multiplying where real newsrooms used to be (Florida Tribune). An then a caution: The Atlantic’s alerts that wearable sensors increasingly mean everything you say is being recorded (The Atlantic).
  
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• A New Arts-And-Culture Magazine Focused On “The Creative Process”

  20-05-2026 21:03 via semafor.com
  “Former Pitchfork and Spin editor-in-chief Puja Patel is launching Totei, a publication dedicated to ‘craft and craftsmanship.’ The online magazine will publish content weekly, including profiles of artists and musicians, photo essays, reported features, and interviews. Crucially, Totei aims to spotlight rarely seen materials showing how art is created.” – Semafor
  
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• Sham AI Local News Sites Are Proliferating

  20-05-2026 20:31 via floridatrib.org
  A digital mirage masquerading as local news, the South Florida Standard underscores just how easy it has become to corrupt one of the country’s core institutions: independent journalism. – Florida Tribune
  
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• Author Of A Book About AI And Truth Admits Some Of His Book Was Written By AI With Fake Quotes

  20-05-2026 20:15 via nytimes.com
  The author of a nonfiction book about the effects of artificial intelligence on truth acknowledged on Monday that he had included numerous made-up or misattributed quotes concocted by A.I. – The New York Times
  
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• French Actor/Singer Patrick Bruel Faces Rape Allegations In Two Countries

  20-05-2026 20:02 via theguardian.com
  Bruel, 67, has had a string of top-selling albums and appeared in more than 40 films, is under investigation by the Paris prosecutor’s office for at least four complaints of sexual assault in France and by Belgian authorities for an additional alleged attack in Brussels. – The Guardian
  
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• The Tony Effect: Broadway Shows That Are Thriving After The Noms

  20-05-2026 19:44 via hollywoodreporter.com
  Death of a Salesman, which received nine Tony nominations, hit $1.7 million, its highest gross yet, last week playing to 100 percent capacity at the Winter Garden Theatre. Ragtime has similarly been drawing increased interest since the Tony nominations, bringing in $1.2 million last week. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Much-Anticipated “Beaches” To Close On Broadway After Tony Shutout

  20-05-2026 19:31 via hollywoodreporter.com
  The show began previews at the Majestic Theatre March 27, ahead of an April 22 opening date, but has failed to catch on with audiences and with critics, who delivered mixed to negative reviews.  – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• This Philadelphia Orchestra Is Growing Like Crazy

  20-05-2026 19:15 via msn.com
  To co-music director and conductor Gary Clark, GPGSO’s rapid growth makes sense in a city known for niche, DIY music scenes. It hasn’t exactly been a shock to the orchestra’s other organizers either. – Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
  
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• New Artistic Director For Dayton Contemporary Dance Company

  20-05-2026 19:01 via daytondailynews.com
  “After 18 years as artistic director and two years in dual roles as chief executive and artistic director, Debbie Blunden-Diggs, daughter of DCDC founder Jeraldyne Blunden, has passed the artistic director baton to Qarrianne Blayr, … has served as associate artistic director for five years.” – Dayton Daily News
  
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• Why Peter Gelb Needed Saudi Money For The Met Opera

  20-05-2026 18:44 via msn.com
  His supporters blame the Met’s issues on opera’s declining cultural currency and an operating structure that puts it at a unique disadvantage among arts organizations. “He has tried absolutely everything to keep his art going,” says Barbara Tober, a decadeslong patron. “He is held prisoner by the situation that confronts him every day.” – Vulture (MSN)
  
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• Israeli Organization Threatens Suit Against Canadian Museum for Human Rights Exhibit

  20-05-2026 18:31 via winnipegsun.com
  A prominent Israeli legal organization is threatening legal action against the Canadian Museum for Human Rights over an upcoming exhibit on the Palestinian Nakba, alleging the Winnipeg museum is promoting a politically one-sided narrative that could fuel antisemitism and violate federal law. – Winnipeg Sun
  
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• Always On: Pretty Much Everything We Do Now Is Being Recorded

  20-05-2026 18:15 via theatlantic.com
  The next time you conduct a delicate bit of office diplomacy or share a romantic or financial secret with a friend over drinks, a sensor built into someone’s glasses, necklace, or lapel pin might be watching you and listening. – The Atlantic
  
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• Dubai Says It’s Building A Big New Museum For Digital Art

  20-05-2026 18:04 via news.artnet.com
  “The planned Museum of Digital Art (MODA) … is part of Dubai’s monumental $27 billion transformation of its financial center into a tech hub, announced earlier this year, and will platform various art forms that rely on emerging technologies, including immersive and interactive experiences. No budget or completion date has yet been announced.” – Artnet
  
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• Boston’s Investment In The Arts Is Deflating

  20-05-2026 17:44 via wbur.org
  The Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture more than doubled its operating budget and staff, and the city earmarked $26.2 million from the American Rescue Plan Act to bolster Boston’s creative sector. All that is set to change, as federal pandemic funds run out and the city cuts grant programs to balance the budget. – WBUR
  
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• Can Any Real Reform Come Out Of The Ticketmaster/Live Nation Case?

  20-05-2026 17:31 via thehill.com
  With Ticketmaster signaling its intent to contest the outcome aggressively and drag out the litigation, any meaningful accountability may arrive only in the distant future, rather than offering anything close to timely relief. – The Hill
  
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• Democrats Slam Live Nation/Ticketmaster “Sweetheart Deal”

  20-05-2026 17:15 via billboard.com
  Many of the lawmakers advocated on Monday for a Ticketmaster breakup. Raskin, for example, stated that Live Nation’s monopoly is so strong that artists are “seriously afraid” of the company. – Billboard
  
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• Pittsburgh’s Theater Scene Faces Loss Of Its Resident Talent

  20-05-2026 17:03 via post-gazette.com
  With the merger of the city’s two largest stage companies and the programming of inexpensive-to-produce small-cast shows, Pittsburgh’s gig market for theater artists is shrinking. There may not be fewer shows, but the bigger ones are tours or imports. So there’s a real fear that talented theatermakers will move away. – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  
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• “Death Becomes Her” Sets Broadway Closing Date, North American Tour

  20-05-2026 16:36 via variety.com
  The musical, which garnered good reviews and 10 Tony nominations but only one actual Tony, will close June 28 after a 20-month run which didn’t recoup its initial investment. A multi-year tour will begin in September in Cleveland. – Variety
  
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• World Premiere Of Wynton Marsalis’s Symphony No. 5 Postponed

  20-05-2026 16:02 via msn.com
  Subtitled “Liberty,” the work was due to premiere the last weekend of May, performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and conductor Marin Alsop. A joint statement said, “All parties agreed that additional time would best support the long-term life of the new symphony.” – The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
  
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• Saint Louis Art Museum Chief Exhibitions and Collections Officer

  20-05-2026 15:47 via artsjournal.com
  OrganizationThe Saint Louis Art Museum is a world-renowned fine arts institution located in Forest Park in St. Louis, Missouri, dedicated to collecting, presenting, and preserving works of art of the highest quality across time and cultures. Founded in 1879, the Museum has evolved into one of the leading encyclopedic art museums in the United States, with a mission to educate, inspire discovery, and elevate the human spirit while engaging and representing the full diversity of the St. Louis comm
  
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• The Antonio Stradivari of Brooklyn?

  20-05-2026 15:31 via nytimes.com
  The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center actually programmed a gala in honor of luthier Sam Zygmuntowicz — because so many of its members, and other leading string players (including Joshua Bell and Maxim Vengerov), have instruments of his. – The New York Times
  
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• A system designed to overwhelm

  16-05-2026 01:26 via artsjournal.com
  Good Morning,Three AI stories today, all pointing the same way. The Atlantic argues that the speed of the AI rollout is the strategy — it’s designed to overwhelm us (The Atlantic). The magazine also reports the anti-AI backlash is growing whether or not layoffs materialize (The Atlantic). And a new study finds that generative AI, while boosting individual output, is narrowing the diversity of creative ideas across users (PsyPost). The productivity dividend is starting to look like a
  
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• ARTISTIC DIRECTOR BALLET WEST

  16-05-2026 01:16 via artsjournal.com
  BALLET WEST, founded in 1963 by Willam Christensen, is one of America’s leading and largest ballet companies. The Company boasts a rich and varied repertoire, elegant and versatile artists and an American style and legacy that is as dynamic, expansive, and unexpected as the Rocky Mountain region it represents. Ballet West has toured the world several times, presenting the very best in American classical ballet. Nearly 100,000 students are served through outreach programs each year, reachin
  
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• The Reinvention Of Washington National Opera

  15-05-2026 23:10 via nytimes.com
  The opera, which announced it was severing its relations with the Kennedy Center as President Trump sought to put his imprint on the institution, said it would produce five full-length operas — including a world premiere based on the life of Georgia O’Keeffe — and three smaller-scale works on five stages across the region. – The New York Times
  
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• How Langston Hughes’s “The Black Clown” Became An Opera

  15-05-2026 20:50 via msn.com
  “The magic of creator, lead actor, and bass-baritone Davóne Tines’s operatic adaption of Langston Hughes’s 1931 dramatic monologue The Black Clown lies in its everythingness. (The) poem … consolidates 300 years of the Black American experience into 18 emotional stanzas.” – The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
  
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• The AI Revolution Is Meant To Overwhelm You

  15-05-2026 20:31 via theatlantic.com
  I’ve written previously that one of AI’s enduring cultural impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing their mind. But lately, I believe, it’s the accelerated nature of the AI boom that’s driving people everywhere mad. – The Atlantic
  
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• One Of Cuba’s Most Unusual Choreographers Tries To Stay Afloat Amid The Island’s Economic Collapse

  15-05-2026 20:03 via apnews.com
  “For nearly three decades Cuba’s Danza Voluminosa regularly filled prestigious venues like the 2,000-seat National Theater. Directed by Juan Miguel Mas, the troupe pioneered a new movement by working exclusively with larger-bodied dancers. … (Now) Mas’s daily life has been upended by persistent blackouts, water outages, soaring costs and a lack of transportation.” – AP
  
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