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Tuesday, November 26, 2019

How The Art World Morphed Into The Art Industry by Artsjournal

Consider that, in 1988, the Artnet Price Database tracked only 18 auction houses and about 8,300 artists. Over the next 24 years, those figures skyrocketed: By 2012, there were 632 auction h…

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What Passes For A Soul (Or Conscience) In Silicon Valley by Artsjournal

What happens after you admit you might have ruined the internet, or helped elect a lunatic, or undercut Western democracy? I suppose that, like with any confession, you feel relief. Nothing …

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Translated Fiction Is Finding Bigger Audiences by Artsjournal

Since 2012, when it first became common to see people reading Karl Ove Knausgaard and Ferrante's Neapolitan Quartet on the tube, sales of translated fiction have steadily increased. Overall …

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Wrestling With The Complicated Theatre Criticism Of John Simon by Artsjournal

"It is saddening for me to say this, but I doubt that he ever wrote anything which could make a novice reader feel that the theatre (or film, or literature, or music) was an art worth pursui…

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Why Netflix Bought New York's Paris Theatre by Artsjournal

Undoubtedly this will aid in the company's recruitment of top shelf directors who yearn for that opening night vibe, especially at the spot where Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet played …

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Bad Form: Company That Commissioned "Fearless Girl" Sculpture On Wall Street Sues Artist, Others Making Replicas by Artsjournal

The financial services firm that purchased the original, State Street Global Advisors, is calling them unauthorized copies and waging an aggressive legal campaign against them. Critics say t…

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Still Trying To Pin Down The Effects On The Brain Of Studying Music by Artsjournal

"Current research implies " implies, not concludes " that studying music can help children develop spatial reasoning and listening skills and improve their concentration, but more study is n…

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Bumbershoot Was The Iconic Seattle Festival. Then It Became Generic. Now It Needs To Reinvent by Artsjournal

Festival culture is big. But many of the big festivals have become generic, expensive and boring. Here are five elements that define successful festivals, and five ways to think about reinve…

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Monday, November 25, 2019

Women Writers Still Don't Get Respect For Their Work by Artsjournal

"Ten years ago I went to a speed-dating event in Belfast where I told a succession of potential dates I was a writer and was met with a unanimous sense of disappointment. "I thought you migh…

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Kanye West Popped-Up An Opera " So How Was It? by Artsjournal

Mark Swed: "Typically, a new opera is a multiyear project, so the very notion of this pop-up one, which seems to have been in the works for a couple of weeks at most, is extraordinary. But i…

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Longtime Theatre Critic John Simon, 94 by Artsjournal

He was to theatre criticism as pigeons are to statues, William F. Buckley once observed. "In a style that danced with literary allusions and arch rhetoric " and composed with pen and ink (he…

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Executive Director " Arts Council of Princeton by Artsjournal

The Arts Council of Princeton (ACP) seeks a visionary and dynamic Executive Director to lead the organization's strategic planning, programming, administration, fundraising and community o…

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Netflix Buys Manhattan's Last Single-Screen Movie Theatre by Artsjournal

On Monday, Netflix announced that it has reached an agreement to continue leasing the Paris Theater space and keep it open for special events, screenings, and theatrical releases. "After 71 …

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Seeking Principal Ballet Instructor by Artsjournal

The Ballet Academy at Suzanne's School of Dance, located in College Station, TX is seeking a Principal Ballet Instructor beginning August 2020.

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Research: Extraordinary People Are More Likely To Be Polymaths by Artsjournal

Studies have found that Nobel Prize-winning scientists are about 25 times more likely to sing, dance or act than the average scientist. They are also 17 times more likely to create visual ar…

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France Pledged Restitution Of African Artifacts. Little Has Happened Since by Artsjournal

Two years since Mr. Macron pledged in a speech in Burkina Faso to enable "the temporary or permanent restitution of African heritage to Africa," little additional progress has been made. " T…

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Jeremy Corbyn Pledges New UK Charter For The Arts And Funding Of £1 Billion by Artsjournal

Corbyn said: "The arts are a common inheritance that make our society culturally richer and put a smile on all our faces. We must cherish them and protect them. "Labour's national strategy f…

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Men Use Metal Detectors To Find Millions In Viking Treasure by Artsjournal

Four men face years of incarceration for failing to report Viking treasure worth an estimated $3 million. Police say the find has national importance for Anglo-Saxon coinage and for a greate…

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Artist's Light Installation Lets People On Either Side Of The US/Mexico Border Talk To One Another by Artsjournal

On either side of the border, there are three stations, each with a microphone, speaker and tuning wheels that control a searchlight, that can be seen from a 50-kilometre radius. When you…

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How Taylor Swift Took On Equity Firms Over Ownership Of Her Music by Artsjournal

At a time of public outrage over corporate greed and a heightened awareness of gender-based power dynamics, the 29-year-old Ms. Swift was able to turn a commercial dispute into a cause cél…

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Struggling To Make Sense Of Today's Politics? Fan-Fiction Might Help by Artsjournal

It's a growing genre. Political fiction has always existed, but now many writers are re-imagining our contemporary political landscape in political ways that make sense to them. " The New Yo…

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Hollywood's Blockbusters Are Squeezing Out Everything Else by Artsjournal

"These huge franchise pictures are elbowing out midrange and lower-budget movies. It's harder for midsize movies to get theaters in the first place, much less hold onto them long enough to b…

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In 1988 The Shroud Of Turin Was Declared A Fraud. But… by Artsjournal

Oddly the original data was unavailable to researchers. But in 2017, a legal request under the Freedom of Information Act obtained the raw information for the first time. Their results, publ…

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Survey: Three-Quarters Of UK Youth Have Never Heard Of Mozart by Artsjournal

Three quarters of young people in Britain have never heard of Mozart, a survey reveals. One in five think composer Johann Bach " who died in 1750 " is still alive. " The Daily Mail

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Sunday, November 24, 2019

City of Thousand Oaks, Cultural Affairs Director by Artsjournal

The Cultural Affairs Director will be the chief visionary, strategic, and operational leader and will guide the Cultural Affairs Department and TOARTS as a champion for the varied programs a…

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Saturday, November 23, 2019

Managing Director/Associate Dean by Artsjournal

Managing Director/Associate Dean" Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre (YSD/YRT) seek a dynamic, visionary collaborator to serve as Managing Director and Associate Dean and teach cour…

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Upstate NY's Adirondack Experience seeks a Director of Marketing & Public Relations by Artsjournal

Adirondack Experience, a museum of history and wilderness with an annual operating budget of $5 million, including earned revenue goals of just over $1.1 million, is entering an exciting p…

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Director of Social Impact by Artsjournal

Working across the Center's activities, with a focus on development, education and artistic planning teams, the Director of Creative Leadership and Social Impact Initiatives

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Director, Theater Producing and Programming by Artsjournal

The Director, Theater Producing and Programming works with VP, Theater Producing and Programming to create, develop, and manage all aspects of program administration for the Theater departme…

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Friday, November 22, 2019

Anne Midgette: National Symphony Is On The Brink Of… by Artsjournal

There is an "arc the NSO has traversed over my 11 years in Washington, from the disaffected, sloppy ensemble that Leonard Slatkin left when he departed in 2008 to the group that's starting t…

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Is Los Angeles' Community Of Musicians A Vision Of Orchestra 2.0? by Artsjournal

What we need are larger communities of musicians who take on a variety of musical tasks throughout their towns, playing early music, new music, movie music, chamber music, whatever is wanted…

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