Dutch National Baller director Ted Brandsen: “Just as you don’t (simply) replace a Rembrandt with a new painting, you don’t let such wonderful ballet heritage go to waste. The only way to preserve it is to keep performing it ... in a different context, away from the orientalist gaze of the nineteenth century.” - Gramilano (Milan)
Work requires and supports a certain ecology of tasks, an economy of attention. You train your mind to it. When the job’s gone, that attention economy is rendered useless. But you’ve devoted so much time to it that you don’t know how else to deploy your behavioral resources. - 3 Quarks Daily
“The Odeon of Herod Atticus recently opened the 70th season of the annual Athens Epidaurus Festival, a cherished tradition for many Greeks. But this edition marks the last before the theater that’s more than 18 centuries old shuts down for maintenance and restoration work that is expected to last at least three years.” - AP
Norton Owen has worked in the press office, run the summer school for students, and done development work. But along the way, he began to stage exhibitions and work his way through the programs, films, photographs, posters and other documentation that filled boxes and shelves in the festival offices. - The New York Times
“My biggest concern was exposing our community members that could be affected by ICE to any danger or safety issues,” said Angel-Cano, a community engagement and communications specialist at the coalition who was raised in South Park by immigrant parents from Mexico. - Seattle Times
The median compensation for media and entertainment executives for 2024 was $33.9 million, up 7% from 2023, according to figures from data company Equilar. - Los Angeles Times
For 10 years, “To Protect, Serve and Understand,” was an acting troupe born out of the killing of Eric Garner in 2014. It paired seven officers with seven civilians, and the group went through acting exercises meant to help both sides see each other’s humanity and to create “a theater of empathy.” - The New York...
“(Giv.) Ayotte had proposed a $16 billion two-year budget that included nearly $1 million annually for the arts council. ... But some legislators consider that frivolous spending when New Hampshire — which has no income tax or sales tax — is facing a revenue shortfall because of tax repeals.” - The New York Times
“This is something that takes time and effort and your heart and your soul, and you do this in a community. And then you’re telling me you’re just going to poop it out two seconds on a screen. And I was just like, who asked for this? This is gross.” - The Verge
“Pomodoro’s massive spheres are instantly recognizable: shiny, smooth bronze globes with clawed out interiors that Pomodoro has said referred to the superficial perfection of exteriors and the troubled complexity of interiors. … (They) decorate iconic public spaces from the Vatican to the United Nations.” - AP
The copper-coated figures, each weighing almost 150kg, escaped the blaze because they were removed from the Parisian landmark for renovation just four days before flames consumed the roof and destroyed the spire. - The Guardian
While trying to emulate de’ Medici’s arm placement, the man lost his balance and rolled backwards on the balls of his feet, falling back on the painting and making a tear in the lower section of the artwork. - Hyperallergic
Terry Harper “started on rehearsal pianos in the backroom, while building up his skills and confidence, before finally taking over when his dad retired a decade later. These days, he can walk into a room and immediately know if the piano is out of tune.” - BBC
“Stages have been brimming with large-scale and high-resolution videos, deployed not simply for scenery but also as an integrated narrative tool. It is all made possible by the growing availability, affordability and stability of the cameras, computers, projectors and surfaces that are utilized as part of today’s stage sets.” - The New York Times
“(Three publishers) have launched the biennial Poetry in Translation prize, which will award an advance of $5,000 to be shared equally between poet and translator. The winning collection will be published in the UK and Ireland by Fitzcarraldo Editions, in Australia and New Zealand by Giramondo and in North America by New Directions.” - The Guardian
“It started out to be ... (a) serious memoir project about money and what it’s like to live in a capitalist system. … But then I sat down to write a memoir and realized, ‘Oh my god, I’m going to have to read about economics.’ … I didn’t want to do all that research.” - Slate
The cellist-pianist couple, also co-artistic directors of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, founded the Silicon Valley-based summer festival in 2002 and have been its leaders ever since. They will depart after next summer’s event. - The Strad
“Faced with ongoing budget shortages and the possibility of federal funding cuts, Wisconsin Public Radio is laying off at least 15 staff members and has decided not to fill several vacant positions, while canceling four of its programs.” - Inside Radio
Work requires and supports a certain ecology of tasks, an economy of attention. You train your mind to it. When the job’s gone, that attention economy is rendered useless. But you’ve devoted so much time to it that you don’t know how else to deploy your behavioral resources. - 3 Quarks Daily
More and more, our “mediating technologies” are in the business not of enhancing our own senses to encounter the world better, but in replacing authentic experience with “experiences.” - The Point
“Before Jaws premiered in 1975, most shark research was conducted by the U.S. Navy. Much of it involved experimenting and testing repellents to prevent shark attacks on sailors.” - The New York Times
Minnesota’s nonprofit Sahan Journal "has been working on ways to support internal workflows with AI. Now, it’s even testing a custom ChatGPT bot to help pitch Sahan Journal to prospective advertisers and sponsors.” - Nieman Lab
“My biggest concern was exposing our community members that could be affected by ICE to any danger or safety issues,” said Angel-Cano, a community engagement and communications specialist at the coalition who was raised in South Park by immigrant parents from Mexico. - Seattle Times
“(Giv.) Ayotte had proposed a $16 billion two-year budget that included nearly $1 million annually for the arts council. ... But some legislators consider that frivolous spending when New Hampshire — which has no income tax or sales tax — is facing a revenue shortfall because of tax repeals.” - The New York Times
Experts say the nation’s cultural wave, known as “Hallyu” in Korean, began in the late 1990s, when South Korean soaps started gaining popularity in China and Japan. The rise of the internet spread these exports further. - The New York Times
These residencies, usually hosted by tech labs, museums, or academic centers, offer artists access to tools, compute, and collaborators to support creative experimentation with AI. - The Verge
Artspace secured millions in public funding for affordable housing to support the arts. But instead of stemming Seattle’s creative brain drain, problems at the nonprofit’s three local buildings — unresponsiveness, chronic maintenance issues and threats of eviction — have driven some artists away. - Seattle Times
“Every Iranian that you know has people in Tehran, people around Iran who are doing poorly,” the author of Martyr! says. For instance, his aunt with Stage Four cancer can’t get her desperately necessary daily chemo. - NPR
Terry Harper “started on rehearsal pianos in the backroom, while building up his skills and confidence, before finally taking over when his dad retired a decade later. These days, he can walk into a room and immediately know if the piano is out of tune.” - BBC
The cellist-pianist couple, also co-artistic directors of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, founded the Silicon Valley-based summer festival in 2002 and have been its leaders ever since. They will depart after next summer’s event. - The Strad
André de Ridder, currently music director of the opera house and orchestra in Freiburg, Germany, will start work at both ENO and NZSO in 2027. Current principal conductor Gemma New will become the NZSO’s Artistic Partner, a new position. - Limelight (Australia)
But the industry has new tools to help companies track down what songs are ‘made’ by software, and what are human-created. The focus could "enable more precise licensing, with royalties based on creative influence instead of post-release dispute.” - The Verge
A Gentle Reader complains about the seeming informality of some all-black women’s attire on orchestral stages. Miss Manners replies, “Surely women musicians can find long black dresses or trouser suits they can wear at every concert. … Miss Manners recalls reading about a cellist who …” - UExpress
In the wake of the nineties revival, ABBA’s music has come to seem so universal—pure, uncut, lab-grade pop, purified of any particularizing influences—that it can be hard to remember that it originated in a particular milieu, and a marginal one at that. - The New Yorker
The copper-coated figures, each weighing almost 150kg, escaped the blaze because they were removed from the Parisian landmark for renovation just four days before flames consumed the roof and destroyed the spire. - The Guardian
While trying to emulate de’ Medici’s arm placement, the man lost his balance and rolled backwards on the balls of his feet, falling back on the painting and making a tear in the lower section of the artwork. - Hyperallergic
Iran’s Cultural Heritage Organization has transferred museum artifacts across the country to secure storage locations and closed museums and heritage sites until further notice, according to local reports. - ARTnews
Unlike traditional restoration, which permanently alters the painting, these masks can reportedly be removed whenever needed. So it's a reversible process that does not permanently change a painting. - Ars Technica
For now, Art Basel’s reputation for quality and importance in the art market continues to draw in more seasoned collectors, but that may change in years to come. There are questions about whether galleries need to pivot. - The Art Newspaper
“This is something that takes time and effort and your heart and your soul, and you do this in a community. And then you’re telling me you’re just going to poop it out two seconds on a screen. And I was just like, who asked for this? This is gross.” - The Verge
“(Three publishers) have launched the biennial Poetry in Translation prize, which will award an advance of $5,000 to be shared equally between poet and translator. The winning collection will be published in the UK and Ireland by Fitzcarraldo Editions, in Australia and New Zealand by Giramondo and in North America by New Directions.” - The Guardian
“It started out to be ... (a) serious memoir project about money and what it’s like to live in a capitalist system. … But then I sat down to write a memoir and realized, ‘Oh my god, I’m going to have to read about economics.’ … I didn’t want to do all that research.”...
In our classrooms, we challenge the misconception that AI tools serve merely as shortcuts, bypassing critical thinking and creativity. We don’t seek to pit human authorship against AI; rather we aim to show how the two can work together. - Education Week
In the age of TikTok, Netflix and Candy Crush, it is not just Finland’s public libraries that are booming, but also demand for their physical paperbacks and hardbacks. Last year the average Finn visited them nine times and borrowed 15 books, resulting in the highest lending figures for 20 years.
The median compensation for media and entertainment executives for 2024 was $33.9 million, up 7% from 2023, according to figures from data company Equilar. - Los Angeles Times
“Faced with ongoing budget shortages and the possibility of federal funding cuts, Wisconsin Public Radio is laying off at least 15 staff members and has decided not to fill several vacant positions, while canceling four of its programs.” - Inside Radio
“What we dreamed of doing was to make a studio that had all this history, the old stages built in the 1930s and the heritage since 1902, but also have the most modern facilities. … It needed to be absolutely fit for the 21st century.” - The Guardian (UK)
What in the heck is going on? Since the pandemic, “while audiences often say they want to see new stories, box office ticket sales show they gravitate toward sequels, reboots and other familiar fare.” - Los Angeles Times
“Once a Cold War-era powerhouse for U.S. diplomacy, the U.S. Agency for Global Media has been gutted under a Trump executive order — slashing ... 85% of its workforce — in a move Kari Lake calls a win for taxpayers and critics warn is a death knell for press freedom.” - Salon
Dutch National Baller director Ted Brandsen: “Just as you don’t (simply) replace a Rembrandt with a new painting, you don’t let such wonderful ballet heritage go to waste. The only way to preserve it is to keep performing it ... in a different context, away from the orientalist gaze of the nineteenth century.” -...
“In the dark, brick-walled basement of the Kharkiv National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre, a dance company has created a space protected from drones and bombs where audiences can lose themselves in performances of classic ballets.” - Globe and Mail
The pointe shoe manufacturer Virtisse, based near Philadelphia, saw its entire inventory — 25,000 pairs, worth over $3 million — literally go up in smoke. Now, as it tries to get back on its feet, it faces costs 50% higher than before because of the Trump administration’s tariff policy. - Marketplace
“The al-Kharrats say they are the only family in Syria who have continuously performed the Sema, as the dance is known, ... through years of war, repression and threats from extremist groups like ISIS. … Now, they say they are hopeful about new opportunities under the new Syrian government.” - The World
In glass-sided vertical wind tunnels, powerful fans shoot air upward at approximately the speed a human body would fall from an airplane. …But over the last 20 years, … because the tunnels can be viewed from the ground, indoor skydiving has become a spectator sport. - The New York Times
“They will also be paid more for their appearances outside of cheering for the Dallas Cowboys. It’s a happy ending to a grueling season and a key milestone in the dancers' long fight for fair pay.” - Time
“The Odeon of Herod Atticus recently opened the 70th season of the annual Athens Epidaurus Festival, a cherished tradition for many Greeks. But this edition marks the last before the theater that’s more than 18 centuries old shuts down for maintenance and restoration work that is expected to last at least three years.” - AP
For 10 years, “To Protect, Serve and Understand,” was an acting troupe born out of the killing of Eric Garner in 2014. It paired seven officers with seven civilians, and the group went through acting exercises meant to help both sides see each other’s humanity and to create “a theater of empathy.” - The...
“Stages have been brimming with large-scale and high-resolution videos, deployed not simply for scenery but also as an integrated narrative tool. It is all made possible by the growing availability, affordability and stability of the cameras, computers, projectors and surfaces that are utilized as part of today’s stage sets.” - The New York Times
That is to say, more than 100 high school theatre stars have been working for a week to put on a Broadway show tonight. Then? Only two can win the top prizes. - NPR
Dead Outlaw “was nominated for seven prizes, including best musical, but won none. It is the third new musical to post a closing notice since the awards ceremony.” Ouf. - The New York Times
One (male) audience member: “We want to see a good, solid male psyche. We want to see the full extent of the male experience. … You don’t always get that in theater.” - Washington Post (MSN)
Norton Owen has worked in the press office, run the summer school for students, and done development work. But along the way, he began to stage exhibitions and work his way through the programs, films, photographs, posters and other documentation that filled boxes and shelves in the festival offices. - The New York Times
“Pomodoro’s massive spheres are instantly recognizable: shiny, smooth bronze globes with clawed out interiors that Pomodoro has said referred to the superficial perfection of exteriors and the troubled complexity of interiors. … (They) decorate iconic public spaces from the Vatican to the United Nations.” - AP
The star of movies, and now Off-Broadway, says, "I feel like I did not understand or see myself in fiction until I read him. Sag Harbor was the first thing I read. I’ve been a huge fan since.” - The New York Times
And - despite CODA co-star Troy Kotsur’s Oscar win in 2022 - that hasn’t changed. “'It’s hard to find work,’ she said, but still insists: ‘This is something I love to do. This is a business that I love being in. I love acting. I love it all.’” - The Guardian (UK)
What might have motivated a respected professional to allegedly take such high risks for such low rewards? Why is the police investigation taking so long? How did the museum not notice the missing artefacts for so many years? And why did the thief, whoever it may be, make so little effort to cover his...
“A globe-trotting correspondent for The Atlantic, Vanity Fair and The New York Times Magazine, … (he) worked as a commercial pilot before becoming one of the most acclaimed magazine writers of his generation, traveling around the world to report on plane crashes, shipwrecks, nuclear proliferation and war.” - The Washington Post (MSN)
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The Southeastern Theatre Conference (SETC), the largest network of theatre practitioners in the US, seeks service-oriented & inclusive leader to serve as its Executive Director
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Goh Ballet Canada is seeking an accomplished and visionary Executive Director to lead its strategic and operational initiatives, ensuring the ongoing success and sustainability.
George Street Playhouse, Central NJ’s premier producing theater, seeks experienced Director of Advancement to lead ambitious fundraising program that supports GSP’s vision next 50 years.
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“Artspace, the Minneapolis nonprofit that owns the lofts, sold the city on a vision: affordable housing that would help retain Seattle’s creative soul as redevelopment and rising costs were driving out artists. But the dream shattered.” - Seattle Times
“While the FTC’s lawyers were calling witnesses against Meta in one courtroom, a nearby room was hosting arguments about whether Trump could fire two of the agency’s own commissioners.” - The Verge
One young adult fantasy author “doesn't say a single word in the video, but her captions on the screen speak volumes. ‘Using GenAI to write a book doesn’t make you a writer, it makes you a thief,’ reads one.” - Wired
The news "came as a shock to authors who were swayed by the possibility that 8th Note could help engineer best sellers with elaborate marketing campaigns on TikTok. Instead, 8th Note has started taking down digital editions of their books, effectively unpublishing them.” - The New York Times
When AI systems learn about Canadian culture, history, and events, they should be learning from trusted, structured, Canadian sources - not filtered scraps from engagement-driven platforms. - LinkedIn
“Many of the buildings on the original list were not ‘underutilized’ at all. They were simply being used for government work that the president didn’t like or by government officials whom the president wanted to punish.” - The New York Times
But federal funding cuts are threatening national history: "A scramble for stopgap funding from donors and bake sales allowed all qualifying teams to attend the national finals this year. But what happens next is unclear.” - The New York Times
“Artists, writers and community leaders have gone the center to be inspired, root their work in a deep understanding of the vastness of the African diaspora, and spread word of the global accomplishments of Black people” - Seattle Times (AP)
As the artists worked on a video, “We’re flying away from the Oort cloud and out pops this spiral, a spiral shape to the outside of our solar system. … A huge structure, millions and millions of particles.” - Fast Company (Internet Archive)
“The only thing that can stop AI companies doing what they’re doing is the law. ... If these lawsuits are successful, that is what will hopefully stop AI companies from exploiting people’s life’s work.” - Time
"Tolokonnikova, 35, whose political art has left her as a wanted criminal in Russia, chose to continue her performance inside the empty museum.” Normal country. Nothing to see here. - The Guardian (UK)
He’s been doing physically demanding, “totally grim work” on nine farmhouses, restored and turned into art, across six miles in a valley in Yorkshire. And the artist says he’ll never do anything like it again. - The New York Times
