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Thursday, May 16, 2019

The Internet Is Fragmenting And Information Is Being Balkanized. Here's How by Artsjournal

A separate internet for some, Facebook-mediated sovereignty for others: whether the information borders are drawn up by individual countries, coalitions, or global internet platforms, one th…

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Tax Records: James Levine's Company Received $936K In His Final Season by Artsjournal

The payments to Phramus were disclosed Wednesday when the Met released its tax return for the year ending last July 31. The payments to Phramus were in the calendar year 2017. " Yahoo! (AP)

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Saarinen's Iconic JFK Terminal Reopens As A Hotel by Artsjournal

Completed in 1962, the year after Saarinen died, the Flight Center was considered a triumph of architecture and engineering. But it proved impractical as planes got bigger and airport securi…

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Meet The Artists Radically Transforming Broadway Theatre by Artsjournal

"In recent years, the dam between uptown and downtown has started to spring a leak or two"and this season, the floodgates have opened. A rush of new productions written and directed by artis…

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Chief Creative Economy Officer by Artsjournal

Greensboro (NC) seeks a dynamic leader to guide the City's support forimplementing the Cultural Arts Master Plan to continue buildingthriving artistic and cultural opportunities that enhance…

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UK Dancer Denied Visa To Perform In Seattle This Weekend by Artsjournal

The O-category visa includes a range of professions, however arts presenters across the country report an uptick in rejected visa applications. Most recently, two dancers from Russia's famed…

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New Study On The Arts And Social Impact: King County by Artsjournal

The study, commissioned by the organization of corporate arts supporters, looks at how the arts has social impact in the greater Seattle area. " ArtsFund

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How We Do Being Old And Sick In America: 87-Year-Old Jazz Legend Kenny Burrell And Why He Needs A GoFundMe Campaign by Artsjournal

"The Detroit native has played on at least 100 records, which is probably a conservative estimate. Burrell made his recording debut with Dizzy Gillespie in 1951, teamed up for a record with …

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Do You Want More Audiences and Donors? 2 Arts Marketing, Development & Ticketing Conferences to Choose From! by Artsjournal

Toronto, June 18-19; & Chicago, July 30-31. Build Your Next Generation Strategies for Revenue Growth. Sign up by May 31 and bring 2 colleagues for FREE! (3-for-1). Digital Marketing Skil…

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Wednesday, May 15, 2019

"Not Good Enough": London's Royal Opera House Announces 19 Male Conductors, One Woman For New Season by Artsjournal

The Royal Opera's director of opera, Oliver Mears, was asked if that was a good ratio. "No it is not an acceptable ratio at all … of course," he said. "But this is something which is a lon…

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Met Museum Says It Won't Accept More Sackler Money by Artsjournal

"The moves reflect the growing outrage over the role the Sacklers may have played in the opioid crisis, as well as an energized activist movement that is starting to force museums to r…

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A Harvard Dean Is Working On Harvey Weinstein's Defense. Students Protested. Harvard Removes Dean by Artsjournal

Conor Friedersdorf writes that Harvard's actions go against the principle that everyone deserves a defense. "Educational institutions ought to teach young adults this justice-enhancing logic…

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Daniel Libeskind Designing Museum Of Humans In Kenya by Artsjournal

The project was commissioned by conservationist Richard Leakey, whose fossil discoveries have helped reveal how humankind has evolved. "The museum " titled 'ngaren' " will be the first cente…

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Pittsburgh Opera Postpones Major New Opera. What (If Anything) Does This Say About New Opera? (About Pittsburgh Opera?) by Artsjournal

The company expected to deliver "Bhutto" " a dramatic treatment of the history of Pakistan's Bhutto political dynasty " this coming November. However, "Bhutto" has been removed from ne…

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Trump Proposed Killing The NEA. House Democrats Propose A Budget Increase by Artsjournal

The bill funds the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Both would receive $167.5 million, an increase of $12.5 million from current spending. " The…

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Polite? Pleasant? Not Words You Ever Thought Would Characterize The Whitney Biennial by Artsjournal

Linda Yablonsky: "Considerate" and "pleasant" are not words I ever expected to apply to a show that carries outrage and upset in its historical baggage. With works by 75 participants, this b…

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Man Dives To The Deepest, Remotest Place On Earth And Finds… Plastic by Artsjournal

Vescovo, the Dallas-based co-founder of Insight Equity Holdings, a private equity fund, found the manmade material on the ocean floor and is trying to confirm that it is plastic. " The Guard…

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Ten Must-See Movies Setting The Buzz At Cannes by Artsjournal

Bill Murray and zombies, Afghanistan, football. It's an eclectic (to say the least) lineup this year. " The Guardian

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E.O. Wilson On Creativity In Science And Humanities by Artsjournal

"Science tends to advance sometimes in major jumps. Something is discovered, some mystery is solved, some system is for the first time understood and can be duplicated. When that happens, sc…

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Why Do Artists Tend To Be More Liberal? Study Says Their Brains Work Differently by Artsjournal

"A recent study finds that such people are particularly good at imagining events that are far removed from their current reality. That imagination is, in a sense, their superpower, and it al…

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Tuesday, May 14, 2019

Executive Director " Ballet Des Moines by Artsjournal

Reporting to and working closely with the board of directors, the Executive Director (ED), in partnership with the Artistic Director, will be responsible for the overall success and creative…

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33 Things You'd Benefit By Knowing As An Artistic Director by Artsjournal

Sean Daniels passes on a Joe Haj list constituting a recipe for being a successful artistic director of a theatre. Some are common sense (don't be an asshole). Others reflect a bit more psyc…

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Why Making Things Easier Actually Makes Some Things Much More Difficult by Artsjournal

Tech has sold us on the idea of making things easier, of reducing the friction in our lives. But friction is how we sharpen up, get better, figure things out. It turns out that making things…

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How Doris Day Connected With America by Artsjournal

Todd Purdam: "Doris Day, who died Monday at 97, was always underrated"the girl next door whose peaches-and-cream good looks, 1,000-watt smile, and sinuous, molten singing voice were so often…

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Rebuilding A Literary Canon With The Voices That Weren't Heard In The Mainstream by Artsjournal

"Instead of holding up a few isolated women as exceptions to the rule of male genius, we owe it to that audience to raise up a crowd: sharing, teaching, citing, and celebrating them despite …

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BBC Wants To Pry Listeners From Their Bubbles (Possible?) by Artsjournal

The broadcaster is developing a "public service algorithm" that's "built to surprise you," said the BBC's director of radio and education James Purnell.His hope is that audiences will stumbl…

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A Beam Of Light? Crystal? What Should A Rebuilt Notre Dame's Spire Be? by Artsjournal

President Emmanuel Macron said last month he was not opposed to a "a contemporary architectural gesture" that could make Notre-Dame "even more beautiful". But many in France have calle…

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Comedic Sidekick Tim Conway Dies At 85 After Fight With Dementia by Artsjournal

"Conway's breakout role was on the 1960s sitcom McHale's Navy, as a bumbling ensign in World War II. On The Carol Burnett Show he played Mr. Tudball, a heavily-accented boss perpetu…

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There's A Reason For That: Understanding The Age Of Enlightenment by Artsjournal

"It has been said, indeed, that the eighteenth century was less the Age of Reason than the Age of Feelings"because so many Enlightenment thinkers took pride in recognizing the importance of …

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How Belief Turned Into Opinion by Artsjournal

'The Reformation and Counter-Reformation participated in parallel projects of religious discipline: while Catholics disciplined populations to believe, Protestants disciplined populations of…

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Train The Brain: How Neurofeedback Can Make Us Believe by Artsjournal

By linking brain activity to an image or sound in real time, we can use simple game-like techniques to get people to train themselves to forge new neural connections and voluntarily adopt (o…

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