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• Vice President, Strategic Community Programming, Kennedy Center June 18, 2018
  Performs as the senior most internal thought leader and external face for all Kennedy Center community engagement strategies and activities as part of the centers commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in all programming.
  John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
• Have We Turned To Comedy To Our Own Detriment? June 18, 2018
  He’s concerned, Ken Jennings is, about how something he loves — comedy — has transformed the way we live now. These days, he says, we collectively react to every stimulus through a lens of humor. In his view, the comedic “take” has become reflexive, unthinking and often, especially when abetted by social media, glib.
  NPR
• How Pixar’s “The Incredibles II” Smashed Box Office Records This Weekend June 18, 2018
  Disney–Pixar’s “Incredibles 2” shattered box office expectations with its $180 million domestic debut — the eighth-best opening weekend of all time in North America and the biggest ever launch for an animated film. Overseas, it picked up an additional $51.5 million for a global start of $231.5 million.
  Variety
• How Music Videos have Been Revived In The Post-MTV Era June 18, 2018
  Political edge isn’t a new addition to the art form by any means, but it’s difficult to imagine the recent deluge of videos exploring racial and sexual identity occurring in the MTV era. The phenomenon is in part the result of political trends like polarization and identity politics rising to the forefront of online conversation, and […]
  Washington Post
• European Museums Rush To Collect Artifacts In Real Time After Significant Events June 18, 2018
  Rapid-response collecting was pioneered by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. In 2014, it opened a gallery dedicated to objects acquired after they stirred public debate or looked likely to have historical impact. The museum says it hopes they provoke discussion about how objects are changing the way we live.
• Study Shows Big Gender Disparity In American Books Coverage June 18, 2018
  The highly anticipated “VIDA Count,” released Monday, has The New Yorker, The Nation and The Atlantic among those devoting less than 40 percent of their book coverage to women in 2017. Only two of 15 publications analyzed in the main VIDA count gave women 50 percent or more — Poetry magazine and Granta. Those between […]
  Washington Post (AP)
• Christo Takes Over A Lake In London June 18, 2018
  The sculpture’s footprint covers 1% of the artificial lake’s surface and rises 20 metres above the water. The sides of the barrels are painted red, with a white stripe circling their circumference, giving the side-view of the sculpture the appearance of relentless cartoon brickwork. The circular barrels’ ends are variously blue, a different red or […]
  The Guardian
• Concert Artists Of Baltimore Shuts Down June 18, 2018
  Concert Artists of Baltimore, a professional orchestra and chorus led by founding artistic director Edward Polochick, is folding after 31 years of performing a richly varied repertoire with distinction throughout the area. Barry F. Williams, president of Concert Artists, said Wednesday that financial struggles led to the move by the board of directors to shut […]
  Baltimore Sun
• Seattle Symphony Names A New CEO June 18, 2018
  Krishna Thiagarajan is currently Royal Scottish National Orchestra Chief Executive. Thiagarajan has previously held executive positions in the U.S. with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and Symphony in C. He will begin his new post on September 1, 2018.
  Seattle Symphony
• The Fascinating History Of Mapping How Networks Work June 18, 2018
  In the 18th- and 19th-centuries, cartographers dedicated themselves to mapping the invisible forces behind travel, trade and capitalism. For instance, there was apparently some hidden force that facilitated northeasterly travel between North America and Europe, and penalised North-Atlantic journeys toward the global south. But what was it, and how did it work?
  Aeon
• Director of Development – Vancouver Opera June 18, 2018
  Vancouver Opera is seeking a new Director of Development to oversee all fundraising activities. This leadership position will sit at the senior leadership table of the Opera, playing a key role in strategy-development and execution for the Opera’s future growth and celebration of its 60th anniversary.
  Vancouver Opera
• Arts Council England Made A Map Of Arts Engagement. Want To See Where They’ll Be Funding? June 18, 2018
  It will be used by Arts Council England (ACE) to guide investment via is Creative People and Places programme, which supports arts activity in areas with historically low levels of cultural engagement. ACE Chair Sir Nicholas Serota today announced £37m will be invested in a new round of the scheme between 2018-2022. Of this, £24m […]
  Arts Professional
• Justify The Humanities? Sorry, But Don’t Go There June 18, 2018
  Justification is always a mug’s game, for it involves a surrender to some measure or criterion external to the humanities. The person or persons who ask us as academic humanists to justify what we do is asking us to justify what we do in his terms, not ours. Once we pick up that challenge, we […]
  Chronicle of Higher Education
• Are We Living In A Post-Reading World? (Here Are The Stats) June 18, 2018
  I’ll cut to the chase: between 2003 and 2016, the amount of time that the average American devoted to reading for personal interest on a daily basis dropped from 0.36 hours to 0.29 hours. It would seem that reading in America has declined even further in the past decade. But statistics can be tricky, so […]
  The New Yorker
• Cincinnati Theatre Critic Jackie Demaline, 68 June 18, 2018
  The Cleveland native came to Cincinnati in 1994 to be the theater critic for the Cincinnati Enquirer, working until her position was eliminated by the paper in 2013. She had come from upstate New York, where she was entertainment editor and theater critic for the Albany Times-Union. Describing her reviewing philosophy in 1998, she wrote that […]
  Cincinnati Business Journal
• Why A Hospital In Seattle Is Incorporating Art Classes In Its Training Of Doctors June 18, 2018
  “Medicine is often about hierarchy, where a first-year [resident] might feel intimidated by a second- or third-year resident, and attending physicians might not talk on a personal level to interns or residents. Suddenly, when you’re side by side, appreciating someone’s art skills, you’re appreciating a different dimension of them.”
  Seattle Times
• After Abuse Allegations, AMC Yanks A Comedian’s Talk Show June 18, 2018
  Actress Chloe Dykstra posted a personal essay to Medium on Thursday in which, without naming comedian and Nerdist founder Chris Harwick, she said that “she had been in a three-year relationship with a man who repeatedly sexually assaulted her and enforced restrictive rules.”
  The New York Times
• The Point Of Getting An Arts Degree Isn’t Making Money, But Enriching Lives June 18, 2018
  Lyn Gardner is not having it: “Rather than being scandalised by the fact that those who are most creative – and the most creative thinkers – are likely to be paid less, the IFS draws the conclusion that students should consider later-life earnings when picking their subjects at GCSE and A level. This will allow […]
  The Stage (UK)
• Should Artists – And Their Estates – Keep A Percentage Share In Every Work They Sell? June 18, 2018
  When a Kerry James Marshall piece sells at auction for almost $19 million, but the artist sees none of that money, the stark reality sets in: Artists have no direct stake in secondary sales of their works. And artists are getting poorer – they earn an average of $10,000 in the U.S. How can this […]
  The Art Newspaper
• The Histories Of Those Who Made The Pease Porridge And Emptied The Chamber Pots June 18, 2018
  When tourists go through Britain’s castles and grand houses, they’ve started asking a lot more questions about the people who made those places run. As one curator points out, “there was a time when this wasn’t considered ‘proper’ history” – but that changed, in part because of some of the books she recommends, including those […]
  The Guardian (UK)