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• Operations Manager / Primary / East Midlands

  14-08-2020 14:32
  Primary is recruiting an Operations Manager to lead on operations, building management, and the first phase of our ambitious capital development project, and to support us as we plan for the...
  
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• Humans Still Pick The Books

  19-06-2026 06:35 via artsjournal.com
  Good Morning,The Book of the Month Club turns 100 this year, and its growth strategy is almost a provocation: human curation. The service has added members every year since it dropped “Club” from its name, now past 400,000, on a simple premise — “We don’t depend on algorithms to determine your next book” (Publishers Weekly). Houston’s Menil is making a slower version of the same idea, reopening its long-shuttered fresco building for site-specific commiss
  
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• For His First Work Of Performance Art, Ai Weiwei Will Re-Enact His Imprisonment

  18-06-2026 21:04 via news.artnet.com
  
  “From 5 p.m. on July 3 (in Manchester), Ai will enter a replica of his 25.92 square-meter cell, recreated by international architecture firm Hawkins\Brown. Inside, (over 24 hours,) he’ll sleep, eat, exercise, write, wash, and face interrogation on personal, political, and philosophical matters by four famed journalists.” – Artnet
  
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• “Toy Story” Is One Of Disney’s Most Dependable Franchises

  18-06-2026 20:31 via latimes.com
  
  Analysts expect the fifth installment of Disney/Pixar’s “Toy Story” franchise will pull in at least $150 million in the U.S. and Canada, with some predicting as much as $175 million — either of which would set a franchise record, topping the nearly $121-million opening of 2019’s “Toy Story 4.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• “The Seduction Of Certainty”: Playwright Moisés Kaufman On The Roald Dahl Bio-Play “Giant”

  18-06-2026 20:02 via observer.com
  
  “Most plays about prejudice comfort the audience with clarity. They reassure us that we would have recognized it immediately. Giant offers no such reassurance.” – Observer
  
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• Debating The Color Of The National Mall Reflecting Pool

  18-06-2026 19:44 via theatlantic.com
  
  The Reflecting Pool now evokes the joy of a Green Bay Packers victory. Or a high-school prank. Or St. Patrick’s Day in Chicago.It most certainly is not the gleaming American-flag blue that Trump’s repainting of the pool was supposed to produce. – The Atlantic
  
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• David Hockney Was Working Class. Artists From The Working Class Have A Much More Difficult Time Today

  18-06-2026 19:31 via theconversation.com
  
  Through policies and schemes, previously unheard-of opportunities for people of his background began to open up, without which he would not have become the success he is considered today. The situation today for aspiring artists from a similar background is much starker. – The Conversation
  
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• What Literature Teaches Us About Neurodivergence

  18-06-2026 19:15 via theconversation.com
  
  Far from being a modern phenomenon, neurodivergence has a long history. In other words, people whose ways of thinking, sensing or behaving differed from social expectations have always existed. Members of my research project have described discovering these historical figures as like finding neurodivergent ancestors. – The Conversation
  
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• Why The New Obama Presidential Center Is Not Officially A Library

  18-06-2026 19:05 via chicago.suntimes.com
  
  It isn’t a presidential library if it isn’t run by the National Archives and Records Administration, and the Obama Foundation had two big reasons for deciding not having NARA involved. So President Obama’s papers and archives will be made available to the public digitally while the Obama Center serves other functions. – Chicago Sun-Times
  
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• Ballmer And Bezos And Benioff: Mega-donors To The Obama Library

  18-06-2026 18:44 via chicago.suntimes.com
  
  The foundation collected six donations of $50 million-plus, including one anonymous contributor. – Chicago Sun-Times
  
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• The Woman Trying To Rebuild Oakland’s Arts Program

  18-06-2026 18:31 via sfchronicle.com
  
  Oakland currently allots its entire arts community only $300,000 in grants — in contrast to the combined $29 million that Grants for the Arts and the San Francisco Arts Commission apportioned across the bay last fiscal year. – San Francisco Chronicle
  
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• The Meanings Of David Foster Wallace

  18-06-2026 18:15 via libertiesjournal.substack.com
  
  The Bible warns that “all craftsmen who make idols will be humiliated.” American culture, perhaps in an effort to stave off potential embarrassment, often creates idols only to later destroy them. – Liberties Journal
  
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• In Its Centennial Year, The Book Of The Month Club Has Become Kind Of Cool

  18-06-2026 18:01 via publishersweekly.com
  Since its rebrand as Book of the Month (no more club) a decade ago, the subscription service has grown every year and now has over 400,000 members. Its strength, says chairman John Lippman, is human curation: “We don’t depend on algorithms to determine your next book.” – Publishers Weekly
  
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• Director of Production, The College of Visual and Performing Arts (CVPA)

  18-06-2026 17:54 via artsjournal.com
  Req # 10004174About the Department:The College of Visual and Performing Arts (CVPA) is dedicated to advancing the study, creation, performance, and exhibition of the arts, acting on the strong belief in their transformative influence on individuals and societies. The College honors the values of great traditions in the arts while actively engaging in the creation of new works and ideas. This distinctive fusion of the academic and the professional, the campus and the community, the past and the p
  
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• The Philosophical Consequences Of Simulations

  18-06-2026 17:44 via hedgehogreview.com
  Students tend to have a low tolerance for fanciful hypotheses and abstruse thought experiments. All but the most philosophically inclined roll their eyes at Descartes’s famed “evil demon” scenario in which the reader is meant to reflect on whether any of her beliefs couldn’t have been presented as a deception of a malevolent spirit. – Hedgehog Review
  
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• New Brain Study Reveals How Bilingual People Process Language

  18-06-2026 17:31 via nytimes.com
  When deciding how to make a word singular or plural, for instance, bilingual people exhibit strikingly similar brain activity regardless of whether they are speaking in their first or second language. – The New York Times
  
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• Some Dance Forms Are Deeply Culturally Coded. How Can They Be Reinterpreted In Contemporary Choreography?

  18-06-2026 17:15 via broadwayworld.com
  Choreographic researcher and artist Nazira Yerbolkyzy is among a new generation of practitioners working to reframe this relationship by exploring how traditional movement philosophies can be reinterpreted through contemporary choreography and movement analysis. – BroadwayWorld
  
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• £1 Billion Film/TV Production Complex Approved For Brownfield Site In London

  18-06-2026 17:03 via standard.co.uk
  
  “A £1 billion regeneration project to transform an industrial site in North London into a ‘landmark’ film and television studio site has been given the green light” — by a one-vote margin — “from Camden Council.” – The Standard (London)
  
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• Louvre Is “Running On Fumes,” Its Director Tells French Senate

  18-06-2026 16:34 via artnews.com
  
  Christophe Leribault: “To put it bluntly: despite its imposing majesty and the daily dedication of its staff, the Louvre is running on fumes. Its facilities and infrastructure are reaching the end of their lifespan.” – ARTnews
  
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• Longtime ABT Principal Cory Stearns, Not Entirely By Choice, Retires From Performing

  18-06-2026 16:02 via nytimes.com
  The 40-year-old wasn’t happy when artistic director Susan Jaffe told him to make room for someone younger, but he’s philosophical: “I’ve been with ABT my entire life, and I feel very grateful. … The idea of continuing to dance for the sake of dancing, that’s not what I (want) right now.” – The New York Times
  
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• Houston’s Menil Collection To Reopen Long-Closed Fresco Building And Fill It With Site-Specific Commission

  18-06-2026 15:35 via msn.com
  The annex, opened in 1997 to house two Byzantine frescoes and closed since those works were returned to Cyprus in 2017, will reopen late next year to house long-term, site-specific, immersive installations — the first will be by Teresita Fernández — which will remain in place for roughly five years each. – Houston Chronicle (MSN)
  
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• U.S. House Committee Advances Measure To Axe Department Of Education’s Only Arts Grant Program

  18-06-2026 15:01 via hyperallergic.com
  
  “The Republican-chaired House Appropriations Committee … advanced a proposal that could defund the Department’s Assistance for Arts Education program, … which was established in 2015 to fund primary and secondary arts education with an emphasis on ‘disadvantaged students’ and children with disabilities.” – Hyperallergic
  
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• Troubled San Antonio Philharmonic Appoints Interim Music Director

  18-06-2026 14:36 via msn.com
  Facing more than one court case and no scheduled concerts, the struggling Texas orchestra has promoted its associate conductor, Felipe Tristán, to the music director’s podium on an interim basis. – San Antonio Express-News (MSN)
  
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• BBC To Cut Hundreds Of Jobs And Cut $107 Million From Budget

  18-06-2026 14:00 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  “The U.K. public service broadcaster, will cut around 550 jobs, slash content spending by £80 million ($107 million) over two years and ‘review’ broadcast TV channels as part of a big cost savings push. … (The network is) also eyeing further job reductions in corporate and other areas (totaling) around 700.” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Reimagining The Benefits Of Music In Dementia Care

  15-06-2026 19:40 via theconversation.com
  
  Music has a unique capability to engage multiple areas of the brain that can function in sync with one another. This includes areas involved in hearing and listening, movement, attention, language, emotion, memory and thinking. – The Conversation
  
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• Study: There Are Cognitive Benefits To Reading Paper Books

  15-06-2026 19:21 via psypost.org
  
  Reading a book involves a complex series of mental tasks. A reader must decode words, interpret pictures, and connect new information to what they already know. To do this efficiently, the human brain builds what scientists call a story schema. – Psypost
  
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• Sagrada Familia Might Have Topped Out, But Big Challenges Ahead

  15-06-2026 19:02 via dezeen.com
  “The biggest [challenge] will be Glory Facade, which is the main facade. Maybe it will take 10 years, but we don’t yet have a fixed schedule.” – Dezeen
  
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• Fox To Acquire Roku

  15-06-2026 18:46 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  The transaction combines Fox’s sports, news, and entertainment content and the Tubi streaming service with Roku’s connected TV platform, The Roku Channel, first-party data and direct relationship with more than 100 million global streaming households, the deal partners touted. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Attack: FCC Opens Early Comment Period On ABC License Renewal

  15-06-2026 18:40 via theguardian.com
  The early renewal order represents one of the most significant actions the Trump administration has taken against a media company, a potential regulatory death-blow to go alongside the myriad legal actions taken against the press and access restrictions placed upon journalists. – The Guardian
  
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• AI Company Makes Industry-Wide Licensing Deal

  15-06-2026 18:20 via musicbusinessworldwide.com
  
  David Israelite said the Udio agreement is the first industry-wide licensing deal struck with a major AI music company, and the first to “value songs and sound recordings equally” when it comes to AI training. – Music Business Worldwide
  
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