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Wednesday, August 28, 2019

Last change to register for fall Leadership programs at Banff Centre by Artsjournal

Step into your potential and take a Leadership program at Banff Centre this fall.

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Last Chance to Register for Sculpture Conference by Artsjournal

Join the International Sculpture Center in Portland, OR for the 29th International Sculpture Conference: The Multifaceted Maker . This four-day conference will include panel discussions, a k…

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Tuesday, August 27, 2019

Ferlinghetti At 100: Beating The Drum Of American Originality by Artsjournal

"The fact that Lawrence Ferlinghetti, a friend and publisher of his better-known confreres, has recently celebrated his hundredth birthday in style by publishing Little Boy, an uncategorizab…

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Small Colorado Public Radio Station Takes Over Two Festivals by Artsjournal

KSUT in Ignacio, Colorado was given the Folk N' Bluegrass festival, which brings in about 2,000 attendees per day and the Four Corners Folk Festival, which draws nearly double that. " Current

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The Comic Books About Great Artists (A Good Idea?) by Artsjournal

"There's something inherently odd about using one artistic tradition to depict the life (to say nothing of reproducing the work) of an artist from a different tradition. And yet, not only ar…

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Why I Teach High School English by Artsjournal

"Teaching is not for everyone, and that is a good thing. We need great teachers. We need people with patience and passion. High school teaching is entertainment. Erudition is worthless if yo…

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Placido Domingo Performs To Standing Ovations, Cheers by Artsjournal

"In Domingo's first performance since sexual harassment allegations surfaced against him, the crowd cheered every one of his big moments. He had to stop the standing ovation at the final cur…

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Los Angeles' LACMA Is Kind Of A Ghost Town Now by Artsjournal

California is famous for its ghost towns, but you don't expect to find one where L.A.'s major art museum once was. Or pay up to 25 bucks to see it. " Los Angeles Times

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Banksy's Famous Brexit Mural Is Painted Over by Artsjournal

"The side of a building that had borne a famous painting of a worker chipping away one of the golden stars from the European Union's flag " symbolizing Britain's impending exit from the bloc…

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Tech Giants Are Hiring Philosophers. Will It Help? by Artsjournal

"Tech companies seem to be recognizing that they need advice on the unprecedented power they've amassed and on many challenging moral issues around privacy, facial recognition, AI, and beyon…

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The Complicated History Of "This Land Is Your Land" by Artsjournal

"As the author of three books on Woody Guthrie, I sometimes wonder how the folksinger would respond to the criticism of "This Land Is Your Land" for its omissions. While we can't know for su…

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To Desegregate Public Schools, NYC Proposes To Eliminate Gifted Programs by Artsjournal

Gifted programs and screened schools have "become proxies for separating students who can and should have opportunities to learn together," the panel, made up of several dozen education expe…

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Prague Grapples With Over-Tourism by Artsjournal

In the years since the 1989 Velvet Revolution, a rising tide of visitors has flooded in, up from 2.62 million in the year 2000, to just under 8 million last year, drawn by Prague's reputatio…

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President & CEO, The Phoenix Symphony by Artsjournal

Reporting to the board of directors and partnering with the Virginia G. Piper Music Director, the President & CEO will be a consensus builder who strengthens TPS's leadership team and co…

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Executive Director, College Art Association by Artsjournal

The Executive Director of CAA will serve as the association's chief executive officer, with responsibility for supervising all aspects of the association's operations, finances, publications…

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Development Manager " Performing Arts Services, University of Illinois Springfield by Artsjournal

The department of UIS Performing Arts Services seeks a Development Manager. This position manages the FRIENDS of UIS Performing Arts Center program which includes responsibility for devel…

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Monday, August 26, 2019

The International Ballet Competition That Feels More Like Summer Camp by Artsjournal

"What qualifies as artistry is ultimately a subjective assessment. Winning medals " or not winning them " has little bearing on whether a dancer will progress to a successful career. Even so…

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Philanthropic Giving Was Down Last Year (But Not On PayPal) by Artsjournal

Experts have speculated last year's tumultuous stock market, combined with tax code changes that doubled the standard deduction without a need to itemize charitable contributions, has led…

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Books Are Forever. Is Reading? by Artsjournal

"It was never the books as objects that people worried would vanish with the advent of e-readers and other personal devices: it was reading itself. The same change was prophesied by Thomas E…

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US Cities With The Most College Graduates by Artsjournal

The list of the cities with the highest share of college grads overlaps considerably with the list of leading metros, with eight places showing up on both. " CityLab

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Is Surfing Being Ruined By Ubiquitous Video? by Artsjournal

"One of the true gifts of surfing is the privacy of it. That's going away, and it's at a great, great, great hazard to the experience. We're so infatuated with getting looked at now"look at …

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How Film Festivals Are Dealing With #MeToo by Artsjournal

This year more than ever, we are seeing a transatlantic schism between film festivals over how to handle these acclaimed directors, each of whom have very different backstories. " Deadline

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How Literature Was Deployed As Weapon In The Cold War by Artsjournal

In the wake of the second world war, Russia and the West feared the domino effect of enfeebled countries like Albania falling into the clutches of imperialist capitalism or communism. Each s…

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Time Is Not A Fixed Idea by Artsjournal

"Time, as it appears to us, is made of indivisible moments that are parts of succession… A single moment cannot have a duration. Something counts as a duration only if it is a temporal com…

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Why All this Praise For Rich People? by Artsjournal

"To criticise our praise for the wealthy and powerful as excessive inevitably raises the question of meritocracy. To what extent do we live in a meritocracy, and is that a good or a bad thin…

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Two Artists Withdraw Their Work From The Shed by Artsjournal

The latest withdrawal at the Shed highlights the increasing tension surrounding institutions accepting support from trustees whose sources of income are controversial. " artnet

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When Everything Is A Competition, Most Of Us Lose (How Did This Happen?) by Artsjournal

Today's meritocrats still claim to get ahead through talent and effort, using means open to anyone. In practice, however, meritocracy now excludes everyone outside of a narrow elite. " The A…

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Canadian Service Dogs Watch Live Theatre As Part Of Their Training by Artsjournal

A polite crowd of about a dozen future service dogs attended an August performance at Ontario's Stratford Festival as part of their training. While a silent curtain call might disappoint act…

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Director Of Napa's Di Rosa Collection: Sadly, But We Have No Choice But To Sell by Artsjournal

"Unfortunately the simple reality is that the organization was never set up with sufficient funds to properly care for the collection and the physical plant long-term much less offer meaning…

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Ivo Pogorelich Releases His First Recording In 21 Years. So How Did It Go? by Artsjournal

"With such a long hiatus " and Pogorelich's track record " the release demands a certain critical wrestling to the ground, in terms of his once-lauded genius, and of broader questions, inclu…

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Friday, August 23, 2019

Faculty " Arts Administration by Artsjournal

Butler University's Jordan College of the Arts (JCA) invites applications for a full-time, 9-month faculty position in the Department of Arts Administration beginning August 2020.

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