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• Technical & Facilities Manager – Brannan Center (Napa Valley)

  02-01-2025 23:42 via artsjournal.com
  Brannan Center, a new community and performing arts center currently under construction in California’s Napa Valley, is seeking a Technical & Facilities Manager to oversee all technical systems, serve as a lead technician for performances, and also coordinate facilities and IT functions.This opportunity is an exciting one for someone with broad-based knowledge of theatrical technology systems, as well as basic experience in facilities management and IT, to help create a new organizatio
  
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• Vice President of Marketing and Communications – The Moth

  02-01-2025 23:40 via artsjournal.com
  About The Role & The Moment at The MothThe Moth champions the vitality and urgency of storytelling and has defied categorization since its inception in 1997–starting on a front porch in Georgia and now spanning live events across the globe, audio and video formats, books and publications, workshops and corporate training–all focused on connection through shared experience. Through the work of The Moth’s ambitious, values-aligned, and incredibly resourceful staff (including
  
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• Director of Education – Paper Mill Playhouse

  02-01-2025 23:19 via artsjournal.com
  About the OpportunityPaper Mill Playhouse (PMP), the nation’s premier musical theater, seeks a visionary and experienced leader to serve as Director of Education. This leadership position offers an exceptional opportunity to advance Paper Mill’s award-winning classes, training programs, and educational initiatives. The successful candidate will provide strategic leadership in developing and implementing educational programs that align with Paper Mill’s mission to foster a creat
  
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• Works by Matisse, Frida Kahlo, and Robert Capa Are Entering the Public Domain, With Some Caveats

  02-01-2025 22:11 via artnews.com
  
  Every year, January 1 marks a new crop of artists and artworks entering the public domain, a holiday affectionately known to some as Public Domain Day. This year, works by Henri Matisse, Robert Capa, and Frida Kahlo lose their copyright protections, as do novels like Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms and William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury. The comics characters of Popeye and Tintin are also entering the public domain alongside those works.The UK-based organization Public D
  
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• Why Is the UK Spending £46 M. on a Statue of Queen Elizabeth When the Culture Sector Is on Its Knees?

  02-01-2025 21:44 via artnews.com
  
  The UK government is calling on artists, architects, and engineers to submit design proposals for a memorial commemorating the late Queen Elizabeth II, and the winning submission will be erected in London’s St. James’s Park near Buckingham Palace. The budget is between £23 million–£46 million—paid for using public funds.The first of the competition’s two phases launched in December and closes January 20. Five shortlisted competitors will then battle it o
  
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• The Love Letters Of Georgia O’Keeffe And Alfred Stieglitz

  02-01-2025 21:02 via news.artnet.com
  
  O’Keeffe to Stieglitz: “Having told you so much of me — more than anyone else I know — could anything else follow but that I should want you?” Stieglitz to O’Keeffe: “You are so much to me that you must not come near me — Coming may bring you darkness instead of light.” – Artnet
  
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• Dame Rosalind Savill obituary

  02-01-2025 20:46
  
  Director of the Wallace Collection museum in London from 1992 to 2011 and a specialist on 18th-century Sèvres porcelainWhen, in 1992, Rosalind Savill announced that she was going to apply for the directorship of the Wallace Collection museum in London, reactions divided roughly in two. One group would smile wistfully and say how much they loved the Wallace, because no one ever went there. The second group would point out that Savill, who has died aged 73 of cancer, was variously unqualifi
  
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• How Classical Music Has Been Repurposed For TikTok

  02-01-2025 20:44 via msn.com
  Despite these odds and obstacles, classical music — an art form best known for constantly dying and losing its grip on popular culture — has become part of the cultural fabric of TikTok, even as it’s shredded to bits. – Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• Reports: Interest In Classical Music Is Gaining

  02-01-2025 20:31 via cbc.ca
  
  According to a 2022 study from the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, people under 35 are actually more likely to listen to classical music than their parents. In early 2024, they reported interest in attending orchestral concerts peaked the previous year. They also found that orchestral music itself had a bigger increase in popularity than any other. – CBC
  
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• Art World Insiders Make Their New Year’s Predictions for 2025

  02-01-2025 20:29 via artnews.com
  
  Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday.With all of the disorienting and often dismaying events of 2024 finally behind us, it’s time to look towards the new year. Even though 2025 will be without a Whitney Biennial or a Venice Biennale, the year isn’t likely to be any quieter than last. As Senior Editor Alex Greenberger wrote in h
  
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• Jeff Koons Says He Won’t Work with AI Anytime Soon: ‘I’m Very Embedded at This Moment in Biology’

  02-01-2025 20:26 via artnews.com
  
  These days, it seems that just about everybody is making use of AI—and not just tech-oriented artists, but world-famous painters, too, from David Salle to Takashi Murakami. One artist who won’t join their ranks, at least for now, is the sculptor Jeff Koons, who told the Guardian this week that he is averse to using AI to produce his art for the time being.“I do not work with AI at this time directly other than to produce options,” Koons told the Guardian. “Here&rsqu
  
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• The Artworks Of Henri Matisse And Frida Kahlo Are Now In The Public Domain

  02-01-2025 20:05 via hyperallergic.com
  
  Before you go wild with the cutouts and unibrows, however, remember that (especially in Kahlo’s case) those images may be trademarked. – Hyperallergic
  
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• Some Indie Movies Thrived This Year. Here’s Why

  02-01-2025 19:30 via yahoo.com
  
  It wasn’t just because those films were artistically accomplished — it’s because inventive ad campaigns helped make them feel like events you needed to experience on the big screen. – Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)
  
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• Twelve Big Architecture Projects To Look Forward To In 2025

  02-01-2025 19:15 via dezeen.com
  
  Here’s a look at 12 exciting architecture projects expected to open in 2025, including a giant domed skyspace and an earth-covered sports complex. – Dezeen
  
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• A Traditional Instrument Maker Struggles On Under The Taliban

  02-01-2025 19:01 via yahoo.com
  
  “Wood shavings littered the floor of Sakhi’s cramped workshop in the Afghan city of Herat as another rubab, the national musical instrument of his homeland, took shape under his deft hands. Sakhi has crafted two rubabs a month for decades, and he refuses to set down his tools.” – AFP (Yahoo!)
  
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• Hollywood’s 2024 Box Office: Down A Bit

  02-01-2025 18:44 via deadline.com
  
  Even though there’s still $2B-$3B missing in the post-Covid annual domestic box office, there was plenty to be thankful for in 2024 which is coming in at an estimated $8.72B, -3% from 2023’s $9B. – Deadline
  
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• A Correction In The Art Market

  02-01-2025 18:31 via artnews.com
  
  2024 was peppered with lawsuits, auction records, and disappointing performances, more than a few gallery closings, and a lot of hot air forecasting that the art market was near the end. The art market, perhaps even more than, say, the stock market, is a fragile mechanism. – ARTnews
  
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• Ten Questions About Theatre For 2025

  02-01-2025 18:14 via newyorktheater.me
  
  The year 2025 begins with some short-term questions about theater – the fate of “Warriors,” the effect of “Wicked”?– and more long-term ones – what new leadership will mean to Off-Broadway. – New York Theatre
  
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• What A Ballet Company’s Shoe Manager Does

  02-01-2025 18:06 via dancemagazine.com
  
  Yes, it’s a real job, and not an easy one. – Dance Magazine
  
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• Wacky Premise, Crazy Start: Some Of 2024’s Best Books (As Chosen By Editors)

  02-01-2025 17:44 via pbs.org
  
  To help us recap the highlights we’re joined now by two familiar faces, Maureen Corrigan, book critic for NPR’s “Fresh Air,” and Gilbert Cruz, editor of The New York Times Book Review. – PBS News Hour
  
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• Opera — A Synthesis Of All The Arts (Or A “Circus Of Sensation”)

  02-01-2025 17:31 via currentaffairs.org
  
  Wagner described his ideal opera as a “total work of art”, meaning an artwork that brings together all the arts into a single masterwork”: music, dance, drama, literature, and visual art. An artwork that uses all the arts, especially in lush Romantic operas like Puccini’s, can be like a circus of sensation. – Current Affairs
  
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• The Authenticity Problem At Historical Recreations

  02-01-2025 17:15 via bostonglobe.com
  
  Aura matters, and for good reason. The presence of a historical object focuses the mind on it, its maker, and its context in ways that replicas, reproductions, and photographs of it cannot. – Boston Globe
  
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• Teaching Classical Music To Children In Kenya’s Poorest Urban Slums

  02-01-2025 17:03 via msn.com
  “Ghetto Classics provides lessons to about 1,000 students, who feed three orchestras, a choir and a dance group. … (The organization) works in schools and community centers in Nairobi and Mombasa, but its headquarters is in the St. John compound in Korogocho.” – The Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• What is public funding of the arts for?

  02-01-2025 16:54 via artsjournal.com
  Some Adam Smith as an appetizer…Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer. The maxim is so perfectly self-evident, that it would be absurd to attempt to prove it.Now to the present. Nashville’s WPLN public radio reports on a dispute at the city’s Metro Arts agency:The debate can be summed up like this: should Metro Arts focu
  
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• Opening Up The Secret Places In Philip II’s Royal Monastery

  02-01-2025 16:34 via theguardian.com
  
  “Although El Escorial is hardly an unknown destination — it received more than 450,000 visitors last year — Pérez de Prada and his colleagues are keen to offer people a fresh perspective, literally and metaphorically.” – The Guardian
  
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• Pippa Garner, Inventive Artist Who Satirized Consumerism, Dies at 82

  02-01-2025 16:33 via artnews.com
  
  Pippa Garner, an artist who poked fun at consumerism in sculptures and performances that gained a cult following, died at 82 in Los Angeles on December 30, 2024. She had been battling leukemia.The news was announced via Instagram in Garner’s name that is run by friends of the artist, who was legally blind at the time of her passing. A statement accompanying the notice of Garner’s death read: “She wanted a trans President, universal healthcare, the end of testosterone toxicity o
  
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• The Question Underlying All The Turmoil At Nashville’s Arts Agency

  02-01-2025 16:02 via wpln.org
  
  “Much of this drama stems from a debate about whom Metro Arts should serve with its limited budget. The debate can be summed up like this: should Metro Arts focus its grantmaking on individual artists or arts nonprofits? The issue has divided Nashville’s arts community.” – WPLN (Nashville)
  
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• Young Stand-Ups Now Have To Spend More Time Self-Promoting On Social Media Than Sharpening Their Acts

  02-01-2025 15:35 via nytimes.com
  
  “Young artists … have always had to promote themselves, but the balance between that element of the job and the actual art feels worryingly lopsided in our current digital age. The stigma of selling out is long gone, now replaced by the guilt of not doing it, constantly.” – The New York Times
  
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• State Supreme Court Reinstates Louisiana Librarian’s Defamation Suit Against Right-Wing Accusers

  02-01-2025 15:01 via publishersweekly.com
  
  “On December 27, the Louisiana Supreme Court ruled that Amanda Jones’s 2022 defamation case against two local men who accused her of pushing pornography to children can continue. In a 4-2 ruling, the court found that an appeals court erred in denying Jones’s appeal based on an apparently missed deadline.” – Publishers Weekly
  
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• After A Rough Year, Good News From Scotland’s Arts Funding Agency

  02-01-2025 14:36 via scotsman.com
  “Cultural venues, festivals and events have been given a new £20 million boost weeks ahead of crucial decisions on their future funding by (Creative Scotland). The Scottish Government has committed to provide a record £74m a year for long-term funding programmes by 2026 — much more than had been expected.” – The Scotsman
  
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• Development Director – The Hermitage Artist Retreat

  02-01-2025 14:33 via artsjournal.com
  About the OpportunityThe Hermitage Artist Retreat seeks a passionate, intelligent, and driven Development Director with experience in all aspects of fundraising and donor relations to sustain and grow the organization’s highly successful development efforts. With the arrival of Andy Sandberg as the Artistic Director/CEO five years ago, the organization has flourished, growing its revenue and programming by 4X. With this growth, the Hermitage has introduced dozens of new partnerships throug
  
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• Germany’s New Film & TV Funding Scheme Is A Boon To Both Local Producers And Hollywood

  02-01-2025 14:00 via variety.com
  
  The funding application process for local productions has been streamlined, and the cash-back production grant (which covers foreign studios shooting in Germany as well) has been raised from 5% to 30%, making the country more competitive as a location. – Variety
  
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