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• Volunteer Coordinator / The Reader Organisation / North West

  14-01-2021 11:30
  This role will work closely with the Volunteer Experience Manager to help create and make sure volunteers have a fantastic experience at The Reader. The role will provide support functions on all key...
  
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• New York Theatre Ballet seeks Managing Director

  26-01-2026 22:31 via artsjournal.com
  The Managing Director (MD) serves as the company’s chief administrative and development leader. Reporting to the Board of Directors, the MD ensures that the organization’s activities and its administrative, financial, & operational systems effectively align with and support its mission and values. The MD works in close partnership with the Artistic Director (AD), Finance Director (FD) & Head of School (HS) to develop NYTB’s strategic plan & secure financial resource
  
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• The Allure Of “Lost” Civilizations

  26-01-2026 21:01 via newyorker.com
  Who doesn’t want to know how a lost civilization got lost, or where it might be hiding? The trouble is that what gets touted as a lost civilization often turns out to have been there all along. – The New Yorker
  
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• The UK Has Announced £1.5B Investment In The Arts. So…

  26-01-2026 20:31 via theconversation.com
  A £1.5 billion investment is welcome news for a sector buffeted by years of austerity and inflation (not to mention the long tail of pandemic shutdowns). But the devil is in the detail, as ever, and the wider context: definitions of “infrastructure” beyond the landmarks, and its relationship to cultural workers. – The Conversation
  
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• Lately We’ve Praised Boredom. But Maybe It’s Not Really The Path To Resetting

  26-01-2026 20:01 via nautil.us
   You might think that there’s so much at our fingertips now, surely boredom is gonna go away. But what we’re finding is that it’s actually increasing. So one speculation is that our capacity to connect well is diminishing, and as that’s happening, we’re getting more bored. – Nautilus
  
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• How Book Reviews Became Book Slop

  26-01-2026 19:20 via thebaffler.com
  Lydia Kiesling reflects on how book coverage devolved into bloated, AI-adjacent list culture, tracing her own path through The Millions and the broader media collapse. – The Baffler
  
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• Philadelphia Sues Trump Over Removal Of Memorial Of Enslaved People

  26-01-2026 19:02 via buckscountybeacon.com
  Workers on Thursday removed the exhibit, which included biographical details about the nine people enslaved by the Washingtons at the presidential mansion. Just their names — Austin, Paris, Hercules, Christopher Sheels, Richmond, Giles, Oney Judge, Moll and Joe — remain engraved into a cement wall. – Bucks County Beacon
  
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• Hugh Dunford Wood obituary

  26-01-2026 18:57
  My father, Hugh Dunford Wood, who has died aged 76, was an artist who painted landscapes and portraits, set up a successful fashion business hand-painting silk ties, and collaborated with brands such as Paul Smith, Yohji Yamamoto and Harrods. He also designed flatware, sculpture, jewellery, fabrics and even had a parallel career hand-printing colourful wallpaper for the Hamilton Weston historical wallpaper company.Born in Watlington, Oxfordshire, to Angela (nee Elliot), a nurse and physiotherapi
  
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• Adults Should Maybe Use Their Phones Less? It’s Really A Matter Of Culture

  26-01-2026 18:41 via theatlantic.com
  Ultimately, this is an issue not of screens versus humans, but of how families navigate connection in a world where attention is mediated by devices in every age group. – The Atlantic
  
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• Good Decisions Are About Culture (Which AI Doesn’t Have)

  26-01-2026 18:21 via nytimes.com
  The most consequential decisions in business have never been about processing information faster or detecting patterns more efficiently. The most salient concerns are questions such as what kind of enterprise a firm should aspire to be, what culture it should embrace. – The New York Times
  
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• Wikipedia Has Been Cataloging The “Tells” Of AI Writing. Here’s A List

  26-01-2026 18:02 via arstechnica.com
  The source material is a guide from WikiProject AI Cleanup, a group of Wikipedia editors who have been hunting AI-generated articles since late 2023. – Ars Technica
  
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• Salman Rushdie On Violence And Culture

  26-01-2026 17:40 via theguardian.com
  “For the authoritarian, culture is the enemy,” he added. “The uncultured and ignorant and tyrannical don’t like it. And they take steps against it, which we see every day.” – The Guardian
  
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• Wikipedia At 25: What The Internet Can Be

  26-01-2026 17:20 via anildash.com
  Perhaps the greatest compliment to Wikipedia at 25 years old is the fact that, if the fascists can’t buy it, then they’re going to try to kill it. – Anil Dash
  
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• Visual Arts Infrastructure In The UK Has Been Vastly Underfunded For Years

  26-01-2026 17:00 via theguardian.com
  A new, private foundation wants to counter that with some funding. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Little Did We Suspect That Viral Animal Videos Would Portend The Return To Prominence Of This Cartoon

  26-01-2026 16:30 via npr.org
  Cows. Tools. Gary Larson. Need we say more? – NPR
  
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• What’s Next For The Sacramento Ballet?

  26-01-2026 16:00 via yahoo.com
  There’s a new executive director, a search for an artistic director, and of course, it’s trying to keep a 71-year-old arts institution going. – Sacramento Bee (Yahoo)
  
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• If You Hear Music During A Football Game, It’s Because Of This Berklee Alum

  26-01-2026 15:45 via bostonglobe.com
  Joshua Sutherland is “the bridge between the music industry and the NFL,” he says – and he’s also in charge of promoting women’s and men’s flag football for the 2028 Olympics. – Boston Globe
  
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• ‘I will finish your work’: one woman’s fight for the Jewish art and letters her mother saved from the Nazis

  26-01-2026 15:35
  Exclusive: Hundreds of works by the artist and poet Peter Kien have new home in UK after campaign by Judy KingThey survived the Nazis, were confiscated by the communists, and for the last three decades they have been jealously guarded, bound in red tape, by a museum in the Czech Republic. Due to the attentions of an overzealous Czech customs guard and the vagaries of the British weather, a happy conclusion had been in doubt to the very end.But last Thursday a small suitcase filled with 681 drawi
  
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• Portland’s Theatrical Future Thrown Into Doubt After New Study

  26-01-2026 15:30 via orartswatch.org
  The 3,000-seat Keller Auditorium is seismically challenged. Should the city rebuild it, support the new Portland State University Broadway-show-size theatre, or make a third choice? A new study says the city’s population can’t support both. – Oregon ArtsWatch
  
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• The Woman Who Keeps San Francisco Arts Going

  26-01-2026 15:15 via yahoo.com
  Maria Manetti Shrem’s influence is everywhere – as is her name, alongside that of her late husband. A short list: The new UC Davis fashion institute, “the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco Opera, SFFilm, [and] KQED.” – San Francisco Chronicle (Yahoo)
  
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• Val McDermid’s Publisher, Reissuing Some Old Books, Asked Her To Work With A Sensitivity Reader

  26-01-2026 15:00 via artsjournal.com
  McDermid wasn’t a fan of the idea. “The books she wrote in the 1980s and 1990s featured characters in law enforcement who used racial and homophobic slurs to reflect attitudes that were prevalent at the time,” and she argued that most of those should remain. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• How Sundance Has Been Reacting To ICE’s Violence In Minnesota

  26-01-2026 14:45 via artsjournal.com
  Edward Norton: “We have extrajudicial assaults on Americans and humans going on on a daily basis now. And it’s not OK. … We cannot act like this is not happening.” – Los Angeles Times (AOL)
  
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• The Man Who Ate The AI ‘Art’ Tells Us Why

  26-01-2026 14:30 via thenation.com
  Graham Granger: “I saw the AI piece and it was just—as an artist myself, it was insulting to see something of such little effort alongside all these beautiful pieces in the gallery.” – The Nation
  
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• Yes, The Super Bowl Has An Official Pop Artist

  26-01-2026 14:15 via theguardian.com
  Charles Fazzino “has been the official artist for Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game for more than 20 years. He’s served a similar role for the Olympic Games, two Fifa World Cup tournaments, five Daytime Emmy Award ceremonies and the Grammy Awards.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• The Thing Is, Computers Can Only Copy

  26-01-2026 14:00 via aeon.co
  Software can’t surprise us the way humans can. – Aeon
  
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• New £1.5m awards scheme launches to celebrate UK visual art education

  26-01-2026 08:00
  Freelands Foundation will give £100,000 to three organisations every year that do ‘incredible work’A new £1.5m awards scheme has been launched to recognise and celebrate visual art education in the UK – with £100,000 being awarded to three organisations a year for the next five years.The Freelands Foundation announced the award on Monday for recent or ongoing projects “demonstrating commitment to progressive art education approaches with demonstrable imp
  
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• ‘I want them to feel the emotion’: the pop artist capturing the excitement of the Super Bowl

  25-01-2026 13:00
  Charles Fazzino, official artist of Super Bowl LX, has carved out a unique niche with his vibrant, playful 3D creationsEager to avoid the life of a starving artist after finishing his studies at New York’s School of Visual Arts in 1977, Charles Fazzino got some straightforward advice from his father Salvatore, a shoe designer.“He said to me, ‘If you’re going to be an artist and you want to be successful, buddy, you better do something that’s different,’”
  
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• ‘Displaying the cloth like this showed its true beauty’: Aung Chan Thar’s best phone picture

  24-01-2026 12:00
  A beautiful lake, gorgeous fabric: how could the Myanmar photographer resist?When Aung Chan Thar was 25, he was selected to represent Myanmar as part of Asean Centre for Biodiversity’s (ACB) Young Asean Storytellers programme. A cohort of 20 young artists and writers visited Asean Heritage Parks in their own countries to tell stories of biodiversity, nature and culture.Aung first travelled to Inlay Lake Wildlife Sanctuary, known for its floating gardens, in 2022. “The
  
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• From Saipan to Take That: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

  24-01-2026 07:00
  Steve Coogan stars in a loose retelling of an infamous football falling-out, while a new Netflix doc gets nostalgic about the heyday of Gary Barlow and coSaipan
  Out nowAs the Irish national team descend on a small island in the Pacific to prepare for the 2002 World Cup, an epic falling out between manager Mick McCarthy (Steve Coogan) and top player Roy Keane (Éanna Hardwicke) is looming, in this sports drama loosely based on the infamous real-life spat. Continue reading...
  
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• Cartoonists Martin Rowson and Ella Baron at work – in pictures

  24-01-2026 07:00
  As the two cartoonists set out to draw on the same theme – ‘Trump and a world in turmoil’ – to the same deadline, Guardian photographer David Levene visited them in their studiosHow we draw the age of Trump and turmoil: two cartoonists go head-to-head Continue reading...
  
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