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• Intern Position - Digital Marketing/PR Coordinator / Maestro Arts / London

  28-01-2020 16:24
  Digital Marketing/PR Intern - Coordinating Role
  The Mission of the Coordinating Role is to support the Digital Marketing/PR Manager in implementing a marketing policy for the Company by daily...
  
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• At Edinburgh Fringe, Not One But Three “Heated Rivalry” Musical Parodies

  12-08-2026 21:02 via nytimes.com
  “When a show becomes a meme, the meme becomes the story, eclipsing the show itself. This phenomenon is here to stay. Thankfully, we’ll always have satire.” – The New York Times
  
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• Are We Close To Locating Where Consciousness Lives In The Brain?

  12-08-2026 20:31 via noemamag.com
  
  Most discussions of AI and consciousness ask whether machines can experience anything. But maybe the real mystery is: If consciousness is not fundamentally related to higher cognition, then what kind of phenomenon is it? – Noema
  
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• The New Performing Arts Center In Morocco’s Capital Is One Of Zaha Hadid’s Last Projects

  12-08-2026 20:04 via nytimes.com
  The Royal Theatre of Rabat, which includes an 1,800-seat main auditorium, a 520-seat performance space, and a 7,000-seat outdoor amphitheater, was largely completed in 2021 but only opened this year. It’s planned as an international platform for Moroccan, Arabic and African music, dance and theater — and Western pop. – The New York Times
  
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• Publishing Industry Sold $32.5 Billion Worth Of Books In 2025

  12-08-2026 19:44 via publishersweekly.com
  Looking at trends in the trade category, which includes religion books, sale rose 2.7% overall to $21.7 billion. The increase was led by religious presses, whose sales rose 9.3%, to $2.2 billion. Adult fiction sales had the second biggest sales increase, with revenue up 3.9%, to $7.1 billion. – Publishers Weekly
  
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• Anthony Hopkins, Composer

  12-08-2026 19:31 via yahoo.com
  The renowned actor has played piano his whole life, and formally written music for at least 30 years, but it might still surprise many to learn that later this month Hopkins will release his debut album, “Life Is a Dream,” on Decca Classics. – Los Angeles Times (Yahoo)
  
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• Modern Classical Concert Dress Is Evolving

  12-08-2026 19:15 via 3quarksdaily.com
  
  It’s a vital, creative and adaptive evolution, a way of preserving an important cultural heritage in a world of cheap noise where the piano recital might otherwise fade from view or become hopelessly marginalized. – 3 Quarks Daily
  
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• Mixing Tap And Irish Step Dance In A Piece For Ballet Performers — Can This Possibly Work? (Yup!)

  12-08-2026 19:03 via dancemagazine.com
  “(For) this year’s NOW evening of world premieres at Vail Dance Festival, tap dancer/choreographer Michelle Dorrance … is creating a work with … Chelsea Hoy, co-artistic director of Chicago’s Trinity Irish Dance Company, for a cast that includes top New York City Ballet dancers” — who, says Dorrance, “are blowing everyone’s minds.” – Dance Magazine
  
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• Do We Lose Our Minds In Big Crowds?

  12-08-2026 18:44 via psyche.co
  In popular culture and pop psychology, crowds are often associated with strong emotions, excessive emotional expression and the uncritical spread of emotions. Commentators often link that crowd emotion in turn with uncontrolled behaviour and, in some cases, mindless violence. – Psyche
  
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• What Makes A Good Movie Adaptation?

  12-08-2026 18:31 via newyorker.com
  
  If the art of filmmaking is inseparable from that of adaptation, it’s because almost all feature films are made by way of a fundamental form of adaptation: that of a script. – The New Yorker
  
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• StubHub And Its Customers’ Battles For Tickets

  12-08-2026 18:15 via wsj.com
  Complaints about StubHub to the Better Business Bureau rose 47% from 2024 to 2025, and climbed 63% in the eight months leading up to the company’s September 2025 initial public offering. – The Wall Street Journal
  
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• Intimacy Coordinator Lizzie Talbot On The Varied Tasks Her Profession Entails

  12-08-2026 18:01 via msn.com
  “Choreographing a sea-witch straddling a man’s face until he suffocates (Widow’s Bay) is different from dramatizing the intimate moments of the 1990s’ most recognized celebrity couple (Love Story); both of those differ from creating the physical storytelling for almost every lead character across multiple sex scenes (Your Friends & Neighbors).” – Los Angeles Times (MSN)
  
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• Would David Ellison Really Move Paramount Out Of California?

  12-08-2026 17:44 via wsj.com
  Ellison has most often mentioned Tennessee as a potential new headquarters, the Journal previously reported. That state is already a home to Oracle, the software giant co-founded by Ellison’s father and Paramount stakeholder Larry Ellison. – The Wall Street Journal
  
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• How To Fix The Boston Symphony

  12-08-2026 17:31 via thomaswolfauthor.com
  Increasingly, symphony orchestras define excellence very narrowly. The focus is on the musical quality of the playing. This is crucial, of course. But excellence must also be measured, in part, by community penetration and buy-in. – Nightingale Sonata
  
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• Kennedy Center Board Ponders Three Scenarios For The National Symphony

  12-08-2026 17:15 via axios.com
  One scenario envisions the renowned 96-year-old orchestra — a fixture at the Kennedy Center — performing at “offsite alternate venues,” according to a slide deck of the budget plans obtained by Axios. – Axios
  
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• Tower Of Colombia’s Tallest Cathedral Collapses In Earthquake

  12-08-2026 17:02 via theartnewspaper.com
  
  At the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary, a 1939 building in the city of Manizales and the tallest neo-Gothic church in the Americas, one of the side towers toppled onto the center of the building following the 7.4 magnitude quake which struck Colombia on Monday. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Memory Pictures Coming In An Old Friend Is Gone Too Long

  12-08-2026 16:58 via artsjournal.com
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• Disastrous Finances At New York’s School Of Visual Arts, Where Enrollment Is Down By One-Third

  12-08-2026 16:30 via artnews.com
  
  “Amid a broad crisis in higher education in the US …, enrollment at New York’s School of Visual Arts is down some 34% since 2019, and the school faces a $22 million structural budget deficit. … SVA is largely dependent on tuition; full-time tuition is $55,270 annually for the coming school year.” – ARTnews
  
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• Geraldine de Haas, Chicago’s “Jazz Lady,” Has Died At 91

  12-08-2026 16:06 via chicago.suntimes.com
  
  She began her career as a singer, then became a promoter and impresario. She co-founded what started as a 1974 Duke Ellington tribute and, in 1979, became the Chicago Jazz Festival. She then created another event, which started in 1981 as the South Shore Jazz Fest and became JazzFest Heritage Weekend. – Chicago Sun-Times
  
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• USA Today Company Employee Unions Want Management To Cancel Palantir Deal

  12-08-2026 15:33 via poynter.org
  
  “Just days after USA Today Co. (formerly Gannett) announced a new deal with technology company Palantir to help monetize its users’ data, unionized employees across the country are calling on the company to end the partnership.” – Poynter
  
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• What Gustavo Dudamel Pulled Off At The L.A. Phil

  12-08-2026 15:05 via yahoo.com
  “L.A. became the place that let him try just about anything. … Here is where he’s been able to experiment …, not just with the support of the orchestra but also the community. He became a symbol for an L.A. in which, as with YOLA, anything is possible.” – Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)
  
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• Kennedy Center Ordered To Pay Quarter-Million To Musician It Sued For Canceling Christmas Eve Concert

  12-08-2026 14:33 via variety.com
  
  “Chuck Redd hosted and performed at the Kennedy Center’s annual Christmas Eve concerts for years, but bowed out of last December’s planned gig, citing ‘the defiant and illegal name change happening to the Kennedy Center.’ (Management) subsequently sued Redd for breach of contract, only to have the suit thrown out in June.” – Variety
  
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• Issue That Started Two Years Of Turmoil At Dallas Black Dance Theatre Is Finally Resolved

  12-08-2026 14:01 via msn.com
  The drama which nearly derailed the company began in April 2024, when the company members voted to unionize and the then-executive director fired them en masse. That boss has now retired, the dismissed dancers moved on, and their successors — with no resistance from management — have joined AGMA. – The Dallas Morning News (MSN)
  
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• Culture Gets Its Nutrition Label

  12-08-2026 01:20 via artsjournal.com
  Good Morning,Two companies started labeling their own output today, which tells you where the pressure is. Spotify will tag AI-generated “performers” as “AI Personas” and pull them from editorial and algorithmic recommendations (TechCrunch). Anthropic says every model released after August 2 will watermark generated text and files using the C2PA standard (TechCrunch). Neither is altruism. The harder version of that question is proving you’re human when the good bots
  
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• Jova Lynne shares the benefits of a co-directorship model in cultural organizations

  08-08-2026 16:34 via artsjournal.com
  Jova Lynne, Co-Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, shares the benefits of the co-directorship model and immersion in the artist creative process.
  
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• Who Asked You? (The Museum Did)

  08-08-2026 04:34 via artsjournal.com
  Good Morning,Missy Mazzoli’s new opera about the opioid crisis is a tragicomedy, with singing sheep, built on the premise that new opera gets boring when composers forget the job includes entertaining somebody (The Guardian).
  London’s National Gallery made the same decision more literally, convening a 50-person citizens’ assembly to help shape its future — and drew conservative fire for asking at all (Artnet). The objection isn’t to the answers. It’s to the pr
  
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• Executive Director – Gallo Center for the Arts via TOC Arts Partners

  07-08-2026 23:36 via artsjournal.com
  About the Opportunity
  The Gallo Center for the Arts (GCA) seeks a dynamic, mission-driven executive to serve as its next Executive Director. This is an exceptional opportunity for an accomplished arts leader to guide a thriving, community-rooted performing arts center into its next era — building on a strong artistic and civic legacy while strengthening the organization’s financial foundation, programming, and community partnerships.About the Gallo Center for the Arts
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• The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra seeks Chief Executive Officer.

  07-08-2026 23:31 via artsjournal.com
  ZRG Aspen Leadership Group is proud to partner with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra in the search for a Chief Executive OfficerReporting to the Board of Directors, the Chief Executive Officer will lead one of Indianapolis’s most visible and respected cultural institutions from a position of strength. Supported by a talented leadership team, an engaged Board of Directors, and a community that values the orchestra’s contributions, the CEO will build on a strong foundation while gu
  
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• The Painter Who Uses Medieval Style And Techniques To Address The 21st Century

  07-08-2026 20:50 via artnews.com
  
  “Today (Malo Chapuy) paints religious scenes, altarpieces, and early Renaissance-style portraits that look like museum artifacts save for the proliferation of wind turbines, water towers, astronauts, and spaceships.” –Art in America
  
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• Prediction Markets Are Wrecking Civil Society

  07-08-2026 20:31 via thewalrus.ca
  
  Monetizing the full gamut of reality, platforms have opened Pandora’s box. Basic tenets of liberal society—democratic integrity and respect for human life—are being corroded. Regulators need to step in. – The Walrus
  
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