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DANCE
IDEAS
- An Early Review of My New Wagner Novel
An early review of my forthcoming novel “The Disciple: A Wagnerian Tale from the Gilded Age,” by Hans Rudolf Vaget, appears in the current issue of “Wagner Notes” — the journal of the Wagner Society of New York (pp. 11-12). The book is already available for purchase (with a discount)
- Artistic Programs Manager (Part Time)
Gibney seeks a highly organized, dance-fluent professional to support the Founder, Artistic Director & CEO across the artistic and programmatic work of the organization, spanning Company, Center, and Community Action. The role offers close exposure to artistic planning and program development conversations within a multi-program dance organization managing concurrent performances and initiatives year-round.
The ideal candidate is a strong writer and critical thinker who can produce clear written materials, track booking and artistic communications, manage multiple workstreams, and keep commitments moving with strong follow-through. Responsibilities include drafting correspondence and program materials; tracking presenter communications and deadlines; capturing meetings and translating discussions into action items; coordinating scheduling; conducting targeted research (artist and field context, repertoire research, comparable initiatives); and maintaining organized documentation and CRM records.
This is a hands-on, in-person role requiring intellectual engagement with artistic content alongside disciplined execution. The position is designed as a growth-track role, with potential to expand to full-time based on demonstrated capacity and sustained initiative.
Requirements/Qualification
- Demonstrated excellence in writing and editing; ability to produce clear, well-structured professional documents quickly
- Strong organizational systems and proven experience tracking multiple deadlines and communications simultaneously
- Relevant professional experience supporting artistic, programmatic, or production work in a performing arts or mission-driven organization.
- Evidence of supporting a senior leader, artistic director, or producer in a complex organization
- Demonstrated knowledge of the contemporary dance field and genuine engagement with artists and repertory
- Ability to synthesize research, notes, and conversations into concise written summaries and action steps
- Comfort working at a steady pace in a high-activity environment
- Proficiency with Google Workspace and familiarity with task-tracking tools
Details
- 28 hours/week (primarily Monday–Friday, 10am–6pm)
- Salary: $46,550 annually (0.7 FTE; equivalent to $66,500 full-time annualized)
- In-person, New York City
- Part-Time Benefits (PTO, Workers Comp, Unemployment Insurance, Paid Family Leave)
- Full-Time Potential: Path to full-time exempt ($66,500) after 6-month review if performance, capacity, and organizational needs align.
Application Requirements
Please submit a resume, cover letter, three professional references, and one original writing sample (2–5 pages). Writing samples may include a briefing memo, research summary, program proposal, grant narrative, or similar professional writing authored solely by the applicant.
Incomplete submissions will not be considered.
Submit materials to executive@gibneydance.org.
- Good Morning
It took 144 years, but the central tower of Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia is finally complete (ART News) — a milestone for a building that has outlasted every assumption about how long art should take. Meanwhile, the Vatican is cleaning human sweat off Michelangelo’s Last Judgement, a chalky residue left by the millions of bodies that have pressed into the Sistine Chapel over the centuries (Associated Press). The things we make endure; the cost of our attention to them is more literal than we think.
San Francisco Ballet has pulled out of its Kennedy Center performances, the latest arts organization to step back from Washington’s political weather (San Francisco Chronicle). In Portland, a different kind of institutional crisis: protesters are fighting city council over the fate of the earthquake-unsafe Keller Auditorium, warning that abandoning its 3,000 seats would leave a hole in the heart of downtown (Oregon ArtsWatch). And at 30, Klaus Mäkelä takes over the Chicago Symphony with a curiosity that extends well beyond music (Chicago Sun-Times).
Neil Sedaka has died at 86 — a classical prodigy who became a pop fixture across seven decades (The New York Times). And the Library of Congress has surfaced what may be the first robot ever filmed — a 45-second Méliès short from 1897 that feels remarkably timely (NPR).
All of our stories below.
- The Actors Awards Live Stream With Updated Winners And More
The awards formers known as the SAG Awards stream live on Netflix on Sunday night. Though there are both TV and movie nominations, Oscar watchers are aware that “the guild’s awards are usually one of the most accurate bellwethers for the Oscars.” – Los Angeles Times
- A Day At The Art Institute With The New 30-Year-Old Conductor Of The Chicago Symphony
Klaus Mäkelä is “stepping into one of the most visible cultural perches in the city and in classical music at large. He appears to bring to his new job in Chicago a curiosity about the arts that goes beyond his own medium of music.” – Chicago Sun-Times (Archive Today)
ISSUES
- The Vatican Has Removed What ‘A Chalky White Film Of Salt’ Coating The Last Judgement
That is to say, people’s sweat had gotten all over Michelangelo’s masterpiece, and now it’s being cleaned off while the sweat accumulates on a screen. – Associated Press
- The Los Angeles Olympics Logo Needs To Settle Itself Down
“If you’re going through all the trouble to create what I assume will be hundreds of logos by the time the games roll around, why would you not brand LA28 using ‘LA’ as a customized emblem? Why is it only the ‘A’ that changes out?” The answer may surprise you. – Torched LA
- The Snow Sculptures Of New York’s Latest Storm
“Collaboration was key. What came first? The snow baby sitting on the bench or the lounging mermaid beside him? Did the same person who built the snow pyramid also build the snow sphinx?” – The New York Times
- And Just Like That, 144 Year After Construction Began, Sagrada Familia’s Central Tower Is Finished
“Construction is expected to continue for a decade or so, but The Guardian called it ‘nevertheless a day full of emotion for a city that has lived with Gaudí’s unfinished work for generations.’” – ART News
- Cambodia Gets Back Dozens Historic Artifacts Allegedly Looted In British Art Dealer’s Scheme
“The artifacts were described as dating from the pre-Angkorian period through the height of the Angkor Empire, including ‘monumental sandstone sculptures, refined bronze works, and significant ritual objects.”’ – Yahoo (AP)
MEDIA
- The Debate Over What To Do With Portland’s Earthquake-Unsafe 3,000-Seat Theatre
Protesters have begun telling the city council exactly what they think of the idea to abandon the big theatre. “If you don’t renovate the Keller, it has no other use. … The only other choice is demolition, which would leave a hole in the heart of downtown.” – Oregon ArtsWatch
- How The BAFTAs And The BBC Absolutely Bungled Their Response To A Racist Slur
“Black people and people with Tourette’s have been grappling with the ugly language and the fallout from a night that was supposed to be a celebration.” – The New York Times
- A Dystopian Story About An AI-Ridden 2028 Sparked A $200 Billion Crash Of The Stock Market This Week
A speculative blog post about 2028’s AI-choked economy just vaporized $200 billion in market value. When your dystopian fiction gets confused for a Goldman Sachs report, you’ve either written brilliantly or traders need better reading comprehension. — Literary Hub
- France’s Controversial Culture Minister Steps Down To Run For Mayor Of Paris
Rachida Dati, a member of ex-President Sarkozy’s right-wing party Les Républicains (she was once his Justice Minister), is running to succeed outgoing mayor Anne Hidalgo. The new Culture Minister is Catherine Pégard, another former Sarkozy aide who was President Macron’s chief cultural advisor and president of the Palace of Versailles. – Deadline
- Study: Gen Z’s View Of Masculinity Is Changing
The study surveyed 1,500 tweens, teens and young adults, ages 10-24, finding that these groups want to see boys and men on TV and in movies “moving away from isolation and other masculine stereotypes” and “towards vulnerability and connection.” – The Hollywood Reporter
MUSIC
- Firefighters Rescue Rare Books From A Library On The Cliff Edge After Landslide
“Firefighters drilled through the wall of a building behind the structure and entering for minutes at a time, strapped the bookcases together and hauled them backwards to reach the books.” – The Guardian (UK)
- Ode To A Great Editor
During my own editing stint, I came to understand writers as prisoners of their own minds, pressed up against the bars of the words they have already committed to the page. Writers suffer from a cognitive impairment that limits their ability to see flaws in their prose. – The Atlantic
- Congressional Republicans Propose National Book Banning
House Resolution 7661 transforms grassroots library battles into national policy, giving censors sweeping powers to purge school and public collections. Democracy’s reading rooms become political battlegrounds as cultural wars scale up. — Literary Hub
- Where Has The Sex Gone? Our Literature Is Getting Cleaner
Literary writers have other demands to satisfy. In general, readers come to their books seeking not an escape from reality but perspective on it. Romance novels can provide this, just as literary novels can have happy endings, but they’re still beholden to the fantasy that’s part of the genre. – The Atlantic
- A Rebirth In Critic-ing?
If the review sections of newspapers are closing down, there’s a sense that this moment could make room for a meatier, weirder kind of criticism. – Columbia Journalism Review
PEOPLE
- An Early Review of My New Wagner Novel
An early review of my forthcoming novel “The Disciple: A Wagnerian Tale from the Gilded Age,” by Hans Rudolf Vaget, appears in the current issue of “Wagner Notes” — the journal of the Wagner Society of New York (pp. 11-12). The book is already available for purchase (with a discount)
- Artistic Programs Manager (Part Time)
Gibney seeks a highly organized, dance-fluent professional to support the Founder, Artistic Director & CEO across the artistic and programmatic work of the organization, spanning Company, Center, and Community Action. The role offers close exposure to artistic planning and program development conversations within a multi-program dance organization managing concurrent performances and initiatives year-round.
The ideal candidate is a strong writer and critical thinker who can produce clear written materials, track booking and artistic communications, manage multiple workstreams, and keep commitments moving with strong follow-through. Responsibilities include drafting correspondence and program materials; tracking presenter communications and deadlines; capturing meetings and translating discussions into action items; coordinating scheduling; conducting targeted research (artist and field context, repertoire research, comparable initiatives); and maintaining organized documentation and CRM records.
This is a hands-on, in-person role requiring intellectual engagement with artistic content alongside disciplined execution. The position is designed as a growth-track role, with potential to expand to full-time based on demonstrated capacity and sustained initiative.
Requirements/Qualification
- Demonstrated excellence in writing and editing; ability to produce clear, well-structured professional documents quickly
- Strong organizational systems and proven experience tracking multiple deadlines and communications simultaneously
- Relevant professional experience supporting artistic, programmatic, or production work in a performing arts or mission-driven organization.
- Evidence of supporting a senior leader, artistic director, or producer in a complex organization
- Demonstrated knowledge of the contemporary dance field and genuine engagement with artists and repertory
- Ability to synthesize research, notes, and conversations into concise written summaries and action steps
- Comfort working at a steady pace in a high-activity environment
- Proficiency with Google Workspace and familiarity with task-tracking tools
Details
- 28 hours/week (primarily Monday–Friday, 10am–6pm)
- Salary: $46,550 annually (0.7 FTE; equivalent to $66,500 full-time annualized)
- In-person, New York City
- Part-Time Benefits (PTO, Workers Comp, Unemployment Insurance, Paid Family Leave)
- Full-Time Potential: Path to full-time exempt ($66,500) after 6-month review if performance, capacity, and organizational needs align.
Application Requirements
Please submit a resume, cover letter, three professional references, and one original writing sample (2–5 pages). Writing samples may include a briefing memo, research summary, program proposal, grant narrative, or similar professional writing authored solely by the applicant.
Incomplete submissions will not be considered.
Submit materials to executive@gibneydance.org.
- Good Morning
It took 144 years, but the central tower of Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia is finally complete (ART News) — a milestone for a building that has outlasted every assumption about how long art should take. Meanwhile, the Vatican is cleaning human sweat off Michelangelo’s Last Judgement, a chalky residue left by the millions of bodies that have pressed into the Sistine Chapel over the centuries (Associated Press). The things we make endure; the cost of our attention to them is more literal than we think.
San Francisco Ballet has pulled out of its Kennedy Center performances, the latest arts organization to step back from Washington’s political weather (San Francisco Chronicle). In Portland, a different kind of institutional crisis: protesters are fighting city council over the fate of the earthquake-unsafe Keller Auditorium, warning that abandoning its 3,000 seats would leave a hole in the heart of downtown (Oregon ArtsWatch). And at 30, Klaus Mäkelä takes over the Chicago Symphony with a curiosity that extends well beyond music (Chicago Sun-Times).
Neil Sedaka has died at 86 — a classical prodigy who became a pop fixture across seven decades (The New York Times). And the Library of Congress has surfaced what may be the first robot ever filmed — a 45-second Méliès short from 1897 that feels remarkably timely (NPR).
All of our stories below.
- The Actors Awards Live Stream With Updated Winners And More
The awards formers known as the SAG Awards stream live on Netflix on Sunday night. Though there are both TV and movie nominations, Oscar watchers are aware that “the guild’s awards are usually one of the most accurate bellwethers for the Oscars.” – Los Angeles Times
- A Day At The Art Institute With The New 30-Year-Old Conductor Of The Chicago Symphony
Klaus Mäkelä is “stepping into one of the most visible cultural perches in the city and in classical music at large. He appears to bring to his new job in Chicago a curiosity about the arts that goes beyond his own medium of music.” – Chicago Sun-Times (Archive Today)
PEOPLE
- An Early Review of My New Wagner Novel
An early review of my forthcoming novel “The Disciple: A Wagnerian Tale from the Gilded Age,” by Hans Rudolf Vaget, appears in the current issue of “Wagner Notes” — the journal of the Wagner Society of New York (pp. 11-12). The book is already available for purchase (with a discount)
- Artistic Programs Manager (Part Time)
Gibney seeks a highly organized, dance-fluent professional to support the Founder, Artistic Director & CEO across the artistic and programmatic work of the organization, spanning Company, Center, and Community Action. The role offers close exposure to artistic planning and program development conversations within a multi-program dance organization managing concurrent performances and initiatives year-round.
The ideal candidate is a strong writer and critical thinker who can produce clear written materials, track booking and artistic communications, manage multiple workstreams, and keep commitments moving with strong follow-through. Responsibilities include drafting correspondence and program materials; tracking presenter communications and deadlines; capturing meetings and translating discussions into action items; coordinating scheduling; conducting targeted research (artist and field context, repertoire research, comparable initiatives); and maintaining organized documentation and CRM records.
This is a hands-on, in-person role requiring intellectual engagement with artistic content alongside disciplined execution. The position is designed as a growth-track role, with potential to expand to full-time based on demonstrated capacity and sustained initiative.
Requirements/Qualification
- Demonstrated excellence in writing and editing; ability to produce clear, well-structured professional documents quickly
- Strong organizational systems and proven experience tracking multiple deadlines and communications simultaneously
- Relevant professional experience supporting artistic, programmatic, or production work in a performing arts or mission-driven organization.
- Evidence of supporting a senior leader, artistic director, or producer in a complex organization
- Demonstrated knowledge of the contemporary dance field and genuine engagement with artists and repertory
- Ability to synthesize research, notes, and conversations into concise written summaries and action steps
- Comfort working at a steady pace in a high-activity environment
- Proficiency with Google Workspace and familiarity with task-tracking tools
Details
- 28 hours/week (primarily Monday–Friday, 10am–6pm)
- Salary: $46,550 annually (0.7 FTE; equivalent to $66,500 full-time annualized)
- In-person, New York City
- Part-Time Benefits (PTO, Workers Comp, Unemployment Insurance, Paid Family Leave)
- Full-Time Potential: Path to full-time exempt ($66,500) after 6-month review if performance, capacity, and organizational needs align.
Application Requirements
Please submit a resume, cover letter, three professional references, and one original writing sample (2–5 pages). Writing samples may include a briefing memo, research summary, program proposal, grant narrative, or similar professional writing authored solely by the applicant.
Incomplete submissions will not be considered.
Submit materials to executive@gibneydance.org.
- Good Morning
It took 144 years, but the central tower of Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia is finally complete (ART News) — a milestone for a building that has outlasted every assumption about how long art should take. Meanwhile, the Vatican is cleaning human sweat off Michelangelo’s Last Judgement, a chalky residue left by the millions of bodies that have pressed into the Sistine Chapel over the centuries (Associated Press). The things we make endure; the cost of our attention to them is more literal than we think.
San Francisco Ballet has pulled out of its Kennedy Center performances, the latest arts organization to step back from Washington’s political weather (San Francisco Chronicle). In Portland, a different kind of institutional crisis: protesters are fighting city council over the fate of the earthquake-unsafe Keller Auditorium, warning that abandoning its 3,000 seats would leave a hole in the heart of downtown (Oregon ArtsWatch). And at 30, Klaus Mäkelä takes over the Chicago Symphony with a curiosity that extends well beyond music (Chicago Sun-Times).
Neil Sedaka has died at 86 — a classical prodigy who became a pop fixture across seven decades (The New York Times). And the Library of Congress has surfaced what may be the first robot ever filmed — a 45-second Méliès short from 1897 that feels remarkably timely (NPR).
All of our stories below.
- The Actors Awards Live Stream With Updated Winners And More
The awards formers known as the SAG Awards stream live on Netflix on Sunday night. Though there are both TV and movie nominations, Oscar watchers are aware that “the guild’s awards are usually one of the most accurate bellwethers for the Oscars.” – Los Angeles Times
- A Day At The Art Institute With The New 30-Year-Old Conductor Of The Chicago Symphony
Klaus Mäkelä is “stepping into one of the most visible cultural perches in the city and in classical music at large. He appears to bring to his new job in Chicago a curiosity about the arts that goes beyond his own medium of music.” – Chicago Sun-Times (Archive Today)
THEATRE
VISUAL
- “Moral Self-Defense” And The Uses of Public Shaming
“There are plenty of self-serving, self-aggrandizing, morally objectionable reasons for why people participate in public shaming. Nevertheless, the concept of moral self-defence reminds us that our self-respect, our social identities, and our status in our communities are vital.” – Psyche
- The Qualities Of Ethics Required For Good Government
In a world increasingly defined by distance, between citizen and state, between policy and experience, between law and justice, Rammohun Roy offers a reminder that good government is not only a matter of laws or statistics. It is a matter of presence. – Aeon
- Just What/Where Is The Leisure Class?
We need to work, because survival demands it, and we need to rest, because work is tiring, but are those two possibilities really exhaustive? – Liberties Journal
- How Instrumentalization Devalues The Meaning Of Art
It is no longer enough for universities to say that their programmes allow you to explore some of the most fundamental questions of existence. Now the questions are of a decidedly more bottom-line sort: how will philosophy help you buy a house or build your pension pot? – Aeon
- How To Declutter Your Attention
The aim is cognitive clarity via fewer inputs, distilled choices, and settings centred around presence and focus. While design minimalism emphasizes appearance and object count, psychological minimalism directs attention and reduces cognitive friction. – Psyche
