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Sunday, November 24, 2019

The 'Active (Read: Ongoing) Practice' of Equitable Evaluation by Artsjournal1

"The Associations Advancing Equitable Evaluation Practices (AAEEP)* came together earlier this year to support and advance the equitable evaluation field of study and practice. As a part of …

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How a constellation of 6 artists " all women " helped make Modernism more Mexican by Artsjournal1

"[Clara Porset] is at the heart of an ongoing exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago that looks at the ways in which six Modern artists " all women " were engaging Mexican art and crafts…

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A Time to Grow Our Souls: On the Foundry Theatre's New Book 'A Moment on the Clock of the World' by Artsjournal1

David Dower: "[Foundry co-founder Melanie Joseph has] been so far out in front of the field for thirty years, in a place the American theatre " with its templated, collectively bargained lan…

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Why Hasn't Harriet Wilson, the First Black Female Novelist, Been Given Her Due? by Artsjournal1

"The lack of widespread acknowledgement or recognition for Harriet E. Wilson, the first African American novelist and author of Our Nig (1859), comes as a surprise. A New Englander, Wilson r…

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Native American playwright Larissa FastHorse is taking down white wokeness by Artsjournal1

"Opening Tuesday at the Geffen Playhouse, The Thanksgiving Play centers on a group of 'woke' white thespians who struggle to devise a historically accurate and culturally sensitive elementar…

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Linguistic and Cultural Revitalization in Indian Country: Lessons for Philanthropy by Artsjournal1

Brooke Mosay Ammann: "In 2018, First Nations Development Institute and Frontline Solutions released We Need to Change How We Think, a report that served as an introductory communication brid…

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"But Does It Pay?": Internship Culture and Diversity in Theatre Administration by Artsjournal1

"The expectation of unpaid internships is a barrier for young people from distressed communities to gain work experience and subsequent entry into the performing arts administration workforc…

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Godfrey L. Simmons Jr.: Vision and Mission by Artsjournal1

"Godfrey L. Simmons Jr. has built a career making room for others. In 2012 he co-founded the community-minded Civic Ensemble in Ithaca, N.Y., and he will next take the reins as artistic dire…

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Leveraging Libraries for Cultural Engagement: A Model from New York by Artsjournal1

David Giles: "As one of the designers of Culture Pass, I could not be more pleased with the results so far. After launching in summer 2018 with twenty-nine participating organizations and se…

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Early Black Feminist Theatre and Lynching Dramas Revisited by Artsjournal1

"In the 1910s and 1920s, a number of African American women poets and authors turned to drama to address racial violence. Writers such as: Angelina Weld Grimké, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Mary Bu…

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OSF Commits $15 Million to Efforts to Return Looted African Artifacts by Artsjournal1

"The Open Society Foundations has announced the launch of a four-year, $15 million initiative aimed at returning cultural objects looted from the African continent. The initiative will suppo…

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Ofentse Pitse is the first young black woman to own and conduct an all-black orchestra by Artsjournal1

"[POWER Lunch host Ntokozo Mazibuko] speaks to entrepreneur Ofentse Pitse, the first young black woman to own and conduct an all-black orchestra [in South Africa]." (audio) " POWER Lunch (So…

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After Trauma, a Silenced Vocalist Sings Again by Artsjournal1

"The trauma of her assault is the subject of [soprano Lucy] Dhegrae's four-concert Processing Series, which opens on Saturday at National Sawdust in Brooklyn. The series attempts to shed lig…

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Hewlett Foundation Announces Changes in Arts Grantmaking Program by Artsjournal1

"While the foundation will continue to support nonprofit arts organizations that are creating, producing, and presenting performances across the region and will continue to fund organization…

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Conductor works through autism, depression, cancer to lead Burlington orchestra by Artsjournal1

"As a conductor, Kim Diehnelt has to do a lot of schmoozing and interacting with people. She was so uncomfortable with that, she considered hanging up her baton. Then four years ago, she was…

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Friday, November 22, 2019

America's Hottest Opera Director Heads To Long Beach (For A While) by Artsjournal1

"Yuval Sharon will serve as Long Beach Opera's interim artistic director and dream up the 2021 season." He would seem to be a good fit for a small company known for unusual work. "Any other …

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Jeremy Corbyn Promises £1 Billion For Culture, £160 Million For Arts Education If Labour Wins UK Election by Artsjournal1

"The Labour Party election manifesto … pledges to establish a £1bn Cultural Capital Fund 'to transform libraries, museums and galleries across the country'. … The manifesto [also] com…

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Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Leads New MFA Program For Artist-Activists by Artsjournal1

Patrisse Cullors, a performance artist who recently completed a master's degree at USC with a concentration on performance and activism, designed the new two-year online program, called Soci…

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Long-Lost Body Of Michel De Montaigne Has 'Probably' Turned Up In Museum Basement by Artsjournal1

In the years after the man who invented the essay died in 1592, his remains were moved between several sites. One of those places was a convent in Bordeaux whose building now houses the Mus…

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There's Now An Artist-In-Residence At The Philadelphia DA's Office by Artsjournal1

"It makes perfect sense to DA Larry Krasner, who sees the arts as central to the criminal justice reform movement … 'the connection between the reforms we're trying to make in Philadelphia…

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In New Orleans, Replacing Removed Confederate Statues With Paper Monuments by Artsjournal1

"The Paper Monuments project, a participatory imagining of the monuments New Orleanians would like, stepped into that pause [after old statues were removed] to involve New Orleanians in the …

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How Are European Companies Dealing With The Racial Caricatures In Classic Ballets? by Artsjournal1

American companies have been looking hard at this problem in the past few years, especially in the annual cash cow that is Nutcracker. With ballet becoming ever more internationalized " "a p…

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World's Biggest Secondhand Book Market Could Be In Danger by Artsjournal1

With a history going back almost 150 years, College Street in Kolkata "has every imaginable type of text, available in Bengali, English, Mandarin, Sanskrit, Dutch, and every dialect in betwe…

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Making Theatre (Or Not) During Chile's Crisis by Artsjournal1

Chilean playwright and director Guillermo Calderón: "After the curfew was over, a few theatres came back to do shows and a lot of people went to see them. … People were yearning for a s…

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Who Was The World's First Movie Star? (And Why Haven't We Heard Of Him Before?) by Artsjournal1

Until now, the honor had been thought to belong to Florence Lawrence ("the Biograph Girl"), who became famous under her own name following an outrageous publicity stunt by her new studio in …

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New Zealand Works To Make Maori A Mainstream Language by Artsjournal1

"New Zealand is hoping that by 2040, one million Kiwis will be able to speak basic te reo Māori, the Maori language. This ambitious goal is part of an official language strategy that sees…

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Monkman Mischief: How Kent's "Miss Chief Eagle Testickle" May Prank the Met by Artsjournal1

For me, the most jaw-dropping instance of curatorial (and directorial) trend-chasing was the Met's announcement that the Canadian Cree artist Kent Monkman had been commissioned by the museum…

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The wealth tax and the museum by Artsjournal1

At Bloomberg, Tyler Cowen has a short post on some unintended consequences of a wealth tax, and his is (let's say) an unusual take. " Michael Rushton

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Thursday, November 21, 2019

New Global Version Of EU's 'European Capital of Culture' by Artsjournal1

The World Performing Arts Capitals, a joint project of the International Theatre Institute and UNESCO, "twin a major metropolis like London or New York with a smaller city or town, similar t…

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'This Is One Of The Best Times Ever To Be A Black Creative' In Theatre, Says One Of UK's Top Directors by Artsjournal1

Kwame Kwei-Armah, artistic director of the Young Vic in London (and former artistic director of Center Stage in Baltimore): "People are listening in a way they didn't 10 years ago, 20 years …

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Using Dance As Therapy And Educational Tool For Children With Autism by Artsjournal1

"As soon as James Griffin gets off the school bus he tells his mom, 'Go dance, go dance.' James is 14 and has autism, and his speech is limited. He's a participant in a program for children …

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