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Artistic Director -Florida Studio Theatre working with Management Consultants for the Arts

Sat, 05 Sep 2026 01:08:00 +0200

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

Managing Director -Florida Studio Theatre working with Management Consultants for the Arts

Sat, 05 Sep 2026 01:05:00 +0200

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.
In a newly concei

Bannanas are serious business

Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:09:00 +0200

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

Maurizio “Banana Taped To The Wall” Cattelan Insists He’s Serious (And He’s Probably Right)

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 20:50:00 +0200

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

How Errol Flynn Beat The Rap For Statutory Rape

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 20:03:00 +0200

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!)

Why The Bayeux Tapestry Thrilled Ancient Audiences

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 19:44:00 +0200

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

Have We Wrecked Childhood?

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 19:31:00 +0200

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

Twilight Of The Oxford Dons

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 19:15:00 +0200

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

This May Not Be The Great American Novel, But It’s Got To Be The Great American Manuscript

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 19:04:00 +0200

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

Vancouver Police Break Into Gallery Mistaking Sculpture For Person In Distress

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 18:44:00 +0200

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

Iconic Salt Lake City Temple Has Been Transformed. Now A Rare Look Inside

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 18:31:00 +0200

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

Far-Right German Party Attacks Iconic Bauhaus School

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 18:15:00 +0200

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

In Some Places, Congress’s Defunding Of Public TV And Radio Is Literally Dangerous

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 18:02:00 +0200

“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

What Makes Good Writing For Video Games?

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 17:44:00 +0200

“The kinds of writing that players encounter in games comes as a direct result of the medium’s competing needs and origins.” – Washington Post

What Will Become Of Broadway’s Ed Sullivan Theatre Now That Colbert Has Left?

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 17:28:00 +0200

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

Cleveland Orchestra Musicians Authorize Strike

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 17:15:00 +0200

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

How City Arts Funding In Chicago Stacks Up Against That Of Other Big U.S. Cities

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 17:01:00 +0200

“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)

The Most Successful Work Of Art About 9/11? A Canadian Musical

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 16:33:00 +0200

“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

Michael Sheen’s Welsh National Theatre Takes On A Subject That, Shockingly, No One Has Done Until Now

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 16:05:00 +0200

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

Enormous Hoard Of Viking Silver Found In Danish Guy’s Garden

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 15:36:00 +0200

“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

CEO Who Turned Around Joffrey Ballet’s Finances To Step Down

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 15:04:00 +0200

“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)

Just What Exactly Was Going On With Yayoi Kusama During Her Final Decade?

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 14:32:00 +0200

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

Trump Officials Threaten To Withdraw All Aid If Smithsonian Doesn’t Drop “Ideological Agenda”

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 14:00:00 +0200

“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!)

Who’s Left To Tell You What’s Good?

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 02:06:00 +0200

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).
A second look at the

Summer Movie Box Office Is On The Verge Of An All-Time Record

Mon, 31 Aug 2026 20:31:00 +0200

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

What I Learned From China’s Robot Games

Mon, 31 Aug 2026 19:44:00 +0200

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

Why Would We Fear AI Music?

Mon, 31 Aug 2026 19:31:00 +0200

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

What Happens When American Universities Try To Shrink Their Way To Profitability

Mon, 31 Aug 2026 19:15:00 +0200

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

Myles & Waldman Stalwart Performance Poets Together Again

Mon, 31 Aug 2026 18:55:00 +0200