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DANCE
IDEAS
- Fake Art Portfolios Are Being Sold for UK Visas
Good Morning,
The Kennedy Center is dropping Tessitura, the nonprofit ticketing system the Met built, for Ticketmaster. While the deal was negotiated, then-president Richard Grenell sat on the board of Ticketmaster’s parent, Live Nation, which paid him $260,205 last year (NPR). Hmnnn.
A London firm offered an undercover BBC reporter a UK “Global Talent” visa as an artist for about £100,000, paintings from China and press reviews included. Nigerian critic Molara Wood found her byline on fake reviews of two applicants, whose visas are now being revoked (BBC).
Artnet, the auction-data company, is now art partner to Kalshi, a platform for betting on whether paintings beat their estimates. Its price data will settle the bets (ARTnews).
Britain is giving the National Theatre up to £15 million to bring shows, £10 tickets and backstage training to 100,000 young people across England (WhatsOnStage).
Gay Courter, 82, a best-selling American novelist, goes on trial in France over gold bars looted from a 1746 shipwreck off Brittany. A co-defendant once showed the gold on Antiques Roadshow, saying she found it off Cape Verde (ARTnews).
All of today’s stories below.
- Director of Artistic Planning and Operations
The Director of Artistic Planning and Operations is responsible for planning and executing the artistic operations of WNO in collaboration with the artistic vision and business goals established by the General Director & CEO and Artistic Director.
The Director of Artistic Planning and Operations is responsible for collaborating with the Artistic Director to cast WNO’s productions and lead WNO’s season planning process. The incumbent will also oversee WNO’s Artistic Department and all related functions. These functions include: engagement of stage directors and conductors; developing and implementing commission and performance rights agreements; overseeing administration of artistic contracts and visas; orchestra management; and management of WNO’s music staff, orchestra librarian, chorus, supernumeraries, and dancers.
The Director of Artistic Planning and Operations is responsible for developing and overseeing the artistic and orchestra budgets which, combined, are in the range of $9 million annually, as part of WNO’s annual operating budget of $30 million. This role takes responsibility for an array of financial and labor issues, participating in labor negotiations and liaising with unions, as necessary.
Responsibilities
- Principally responsible for working with the Artistic Director to cast WNO’s artists (principally solo singers and conductors but also encompassing directors, choreographers, music staff, etc.). Maintain travel schedule to attend performances and hold auditions (regionally, nationally, and internationally) to recruit and invite artists to WNO.
- Collaborate with General Director & CEO and Artistic Director to drive the season planning process according to WNO institutional priorities. Work closely with these colleagues as well as WNO’s Director of Production, Technical Director, Costume Director, and Director of the Cafritz Young Artist Program and other relevant members of the WNO Management Team on all future seasons and company-wide budgeting and planning.
- Responsible for the operational functions of WNO’s Artistic Department in accordance with applicable collective bargaining agreements. Supervise and manage three full-time staff members to accomplish the work of WNO’s artistic and orchestra operations, including contract administration, securing required visas, budget management, and oversight of music staff, the orchestra librarian, the WNO Orchestra, chorus, corps dancers, and supernumeraries.
- Provide artistic content for recitals, concerts, and special events as necessary.
- Act as WNO’s management liaison to guest artists, and attend performances and rehearsals as relevant to support guest artists and other members of the Artistic teams as described above.
- Manage the staffing of pre-performance lectures and post-performance Q&A sessions as well as development and audience engagement events, as needed.
- Ensure flow of artistic information throughout the company to support interdepartmental needs and planning. Review and approve all printed and digital materials pertaining to casts and artistic teams. Responsible for ensuring that WNO-specific artistic databases are updated to reflect current casting and contract information.
Qualifications
- 8 – 10 years’ experience in opera artistic management.
- Knowledge of opera, music, and the performing arts is a must; experience with managing collective bargaining agreements is preferred.
- Bachelor’s degree in artistic or related field or equivalent training/experience. Advanced degree a plus.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Must exercise good judgment, show initiative, and handle sensitive data in a trustworthy manner.
- Strong organizational skills and ability to work independently as well as collaboratively in a team environment.
- Discretion, maturity, and composure, especially under pressure.
- Ability to establish priorities and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- High standards and strong sense of responsibility.
- Comfortable with up to 30% domestic and international travel
- The Machine That Gave Birth To Mass Media
Before the late 1800s, printers had to arrange letters one-by-one on metal plates, a slow and painstaking process. Media maven Jeff Jarvis points out that, once the Linotype machine appeared toward the end of the 19th century, books and periodicals could be printed quickly enough to meet booming public demand. – The Christian Science Monitor
- UK Artist Visas Are Being Sold Fraudulently
Several companies have been helping migrants apply for UK visas under the government’s Global Talent program by creating fake art portfolios, complete with fake published art criticism and art news. – ARTnews
- Will A SciFi Booker Win Bring More Attention To The Genre?
Author and critic Olivia Laing agrees it’s taken the literary world “an embarrassingly long time to clock that you don’t need realism to write about how it feels to inhabit late capitalism and unravelling modernity”. – The Guardian
ISSUES
- Artnet Makes Controversial Partnership With Kalshi
On Wednesday, Artnet announced that it had partnered with Kalshi, the prediction-market platform that lets users bet on everything from election results to sporting events. Artnet will become Kalshi’s official art partner, helping select markets and supplying the auction data used to determine which bets pay out. – ARTnews
- Not Budging “The Bean” Was Not Enough: London Crowd Will Attempt To Move Marble Arch
Inspired by last weekend’s attempt by Chicagoans to move the Anish Kapoor sculpture Cloud Gate seven inches to the left, Londoners will gather on Saturday and try to push John Nash’s 1827 monument seven inches left. The stated reason for these two efforts is the same: to free anyone trapped inside. – Ocula
- Art Basel Paris To Partially Refund Gallerists For Early Closure
“All exhibitors who participated in the most recent edition of Art Basel Paris, which closed two days early because of planned protests, will get a 20 percent reduction on their final invoices. … Additionally, tickets purchased for that weekend have already been refunded.” – ARTnews
- Art Basel To Discount Gallery Fees After Paris Show Closed Early
“We will exceptionally be extending a 20 percent reduction on booth fees to all galleries that participated in the Paris fair, in recognition of the closure,” on October 24–25, Art Basel chief executive Noah Horowitz told ARTnews in an interview. – ARTnews
- The Vatican Has A Huge, Little-Known Collection Of Indigenous Art. Should It All Be Repatriated?
“The Anima Mundi, formerly the Ethnological Museum, (is) home to around 80,000 objects from across the globe, many of which were ‘gifted’ to the Catholic church in Rome by Indigenous peoples at a time when its missionaries were powerful, and sometimes dubious, figures in their far-flung communities.” – The Guardian
MEDIA
- UK Artist Visas Are Being Sold Fraudulently
Several companies have been helping migrants apply for UK visas under the government’s Global Talent program by creating fake art portfolios, complete with fake published art criticism and art news. – ARTnews
- Shady Companies Make Fake Portfolios For Rich Migrants Who Want UK “Global Talent” Visas
For a hefty fee, these companies will fabricate forged portfolios, with fake images of work and forged review clips, for applications for the Global Talent visa, which can lead to permanent residency in three to five years and is one of a very few UK visas which doesn’t require demonstrated fluency in English. – BBC
- Kennedy Center Switches Ticket-Buying To TicketMaster
For decades, the Kennedy Center has used a not-for-profit platform called Tessitura to handle its ticketing. But the Kennedy Center plans to partner with the ticketing behemoth Ticketmaster. – NPR
- Can These Economists Build A Better Case For Public Arts Support?
These discussions, championed by at least one economics research and advisory firm in partnership with a major Australian arts festival, are instead thinking about the arts activities as powerful economic ‘enablers’ and strategic assets which help facilitate wider cultural, economic and social objectives. – ArtsHub
- The Case For Humanities
Encompassing history, literature, philosophy, art, and more, the humanities provide a lens through which one can view one’s personal experiences—making the universal personal and the personal universal. – Jstor
MUSIC
- The Machine That Gave Birth To Mass Media
Before the late 1800s, printers had to arrange letters one-by-one on metal plates, a slow and painstaking process. Media maven Jeff Jarvis points out that, once the Linotype machine appeared toward the end of the 19th century, books and periodicals could be printed quickly enough to meet booming public demand. – The Christian Science Monitor
- Will A SciFi Booker Win Bring More Attention To The Genre?
Author and critic Olivia Laing agrees it’s taken the literary world “an embarrassingly long time to clock that you don’t need realism to write about how it feels to inhabit late capitalism and unravelling modernity”. – The Guardian
- How Aztec Historians Saved Their People’s History From Spanish Bonfires
There were codices of Nahuatl hieroglyphics before the conquistadors arrived, but they were all either burned by militant Catholic priests or lost to time. Secretly, though, indigenous scholars collected oral history and wrote it down, usually in Nahuatl using the Spanish alphabet, and a surprising amount has survived until today. – History Today
- On Poets And Reputations
The maker of an anthology can’t help being aware of the contemporary reputation of poets. But he knows, too, that this enterprise, this book, will be a chance to amend that reputation. – Hudson Review
- The Onion Is Looking To Sponsor A College Football Bowl Game (Yes, Really)
The satirical publication is looking to break the 100,000-subscriber mark, which would make it, by circulation, the fourth-largest print newspaper in the U.S. As a marketing effort, it’s looking to buy naming rights to one of the numerous bowl games that happen around New Year’s. Wouldn’t you watch The Onion Bowl? – Nieman Lab
PEOPLE
- Fake Art Portfolios Are Being Sold for UK Visas
Good Morning,
The Kennedy Center is dropping Tessitura, the nonprofit ticketing system the Met built, for Ticketmaster. While the deal was negotiated, then-president Richard Grenell sat on the board of Ticketmaster’s parent, Live Nation, which paid him $260,205 last year (NPR). Hmnnn.
A London firm offered an undercover BBC reporter a UK “Global Talent” visa as an artist for about £100,000, paintings from China and press reviews included. Nigerian critic Molara Wood found her byline on fake reviews of two applicants, whose visas are now being revoked (BBC).
Artnet, the auction-data company, is now art partner to Kalshi, a platform for betting on whether paintings beat their estimates. Its price data will settle the bets (ARTnews).
Britain is giving the National Theatre up to £15 million to bring shows, £10 tickets and backstage training to 100,000 young people across England (WhatsOnStage).
Gay Courter, 82, a best-selling American novelist, goes on trial in France over gold bars looted from a 1746 shipwreck off Brittany. A co-defendant once showed the gold on Antiques Roadshow, saying she found it off Cape Verde (ARTnews).
All of today’s stories below.
- Director of Artistic Planning and Operations
The Director of Artistic Planning and Operations is responsible for planning and executing the artistic operations of WNO in collaboration with the artistic vision and business goals established by the General Director & CEO and Artistic Director.
The Director of Artistic Planning and Operations is responsible for collaborating with the Artistic Director to cast WNO’s productions and lead WNO’s season planning process. The incumbent will also oversee WNO’s Artistic Department and all related functions. These functions include: engagement of stage directors and conductors; developing and implementing commission and performance rights agreements; overseeing administration of artistic contracts and visas; orchestra management; and management of WNO’s music staff, orchestra librarian, chorus, supernumeraries, and dancers.
The Director of Artistic Planning and Operations is responsible for developing and overseeing the artistic and orchestra budgets which, combined, are in the range of $9 million annually, as part of WNO’s annual operating budget of $30 million. This role takes responsibility for an array of financial and labor issues, participating in labor negotiations and liaising with unions, as necessary.
Responsibilities
- Principally responsible for working with the Artistic Director to cast WNO’s artists (principally solo singers and conductors but also encompassing directors, choreographers, music staff, etc.). Maintain travel schedule to attend performances and hold auditions (regionally, nationally, and internationally) to recruit and invite artists to WNO.
- Collaborate with General Director & CEO and Artistic Director to drive the season planning process according to WNO institutional priorities. Work closely with these colleagues as well as WNO’s Director of Production, Technical Director, Costume Director, and Director of the Cafritz Young Artist Program and other relevant members of the WNO Management Team on all future seasons and company-wide budgeting and planning.
- Responsible for the operational functions of WNO’s Artistic Department in accordance with applicable collective bargaining agreements. Supervise and manage three full-time staff members to accomplish the work of WNO’s artistic and orchestra operations, including contract administration, securing required visas, budget management, and oversight of music staff, the orchestra librarian, the WNO Orchestra, chorus, corps dancers, and supernumeraries.
- Provide artistic content for recitals, concerts, and special events as necessary.
- Act as WNO’s management liaison to guest artists, and attend performances and rehearsals as relevant to support guest artists and other members of the Artistic teams as described above.
- Manage the staffing of pre-performance lectures and post-performance Q&A sessions as well as development and audience engagement events, as needed.
- Ensure flow of artistic information throughout the company to support interdepartmental needs and planning. Review and approve all printed and digital materials pertaining to casts and artistic teams. Responsible for ensuring that WNO-specific artistic databases are updated to reflect current casting and contract information.
Qualifications
- 8 – 10 years’ experience in opera artistic management.
- Knowledge of opera, music, and the performing arts is a must; experience with managing collective bargaining agreements is preferred.
- Bachelor’s degree in artistic or related field or equivalent training/experience. Advanced degree a plus.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Must exercise good judgment, show initiative, and handle sensitive data in a trustworthy manner.
- Strong organizational skills and ability to work independently as well as collaboratively in a team environment.
- Discretion, maturity, and composure, especially under pressure.
- Ability to establish priorities and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- High standards and strong sense of responsibility.
- Comfortable with up to 30% domestic and international travel
- The Machine That Gave Birth To Mass Media
Before the late 1800s, printers had to arrange letters one-by-one on metal plates, a slow and painstaking process. Media maven Jeff Jarvis points out that, once the Linotype machine appeared toward the end of the 19th century, books and periodicals could be printed quickly enough to meet booming public demand. – The Christian Science Monitor
- UK Artist Visas Are Being Sold Fraudulently
Several companies have been helping migrants apply for UK visas under the government’s Global Talent program by creating fake art portfolios, complete with fake published art criticism and art news. – ARTnews
- Will A SciFi Booker Win Bring More Attention To The Genre?
Author and critic Olivia Laing agrees it’s taken the literary world “an embarrassingly long time to clock that you don’t need realism to write about how it feels to inhabit late capitalism and unravelling modernity”. – The Guardian
PEOPLE
- Fake Art Portfolios Are Being Sold for UK Visas
Good Morning,
The Kennedy Center is dropping Tessitura, the nonprofit ticketing system the Met built, for Ticketmaster. While the deal was negotiated, then-president Richard Grenell sat on the board of Ticketmaster’s parent, Live Nation, which paid him $260,205 last year (NPR). Hmnnn.
A London firm offered an undercover BBC reporter a UK “Global Talent” visa as an artist for about £100,000, paintings from China and press reviews included. Nigerian critic Molara Wood found her byline on fake reviews of two applicants, whose visas are now being revoked (BBC).
Artnet, the auction-data company, is now art partner to Kalshi, a platform for betting on whether paintings beat their estimates. Its price data will settle the bets (ARTnews).
Britain is giving the National Theatre up to £15 million to bring shows, £10 tickets and backstage training to 100,000 young people across England (WhatsOnStage).
Gay Courter, 82, a best-selling American novelist, goes on trial in France over gold bars looted from a 1746 shipwreck off Brittany. A co-defendant once showed the gold on Antiques Roadshow, saying she found it off Cape Verde (ARTnews).
All of today’s stories below.
- Director of Artistic Planning and Operations
The Director of Artistic Planning and Operations is responsible for planning and executing the artistic operations of WNO in collaboration with the artistic vision and business goals established by the General Director & CEO and Artistic Director.
The Director of Artistic Planning and Operations is responsible for collaborating with the Artistic Director to cast WNO’s productions and lead WNO’s season planning process. The incumbent will also oversee WNO’s Artistic Department and all related functions. These functions include: engagement of stage directors and conductors; developing and implementing commission and performance rights agreements; overseeing administration of artistic contracts and visas; orchestra management; and management of WNO’s music staff, orchestra librarian, chorus, supernumeraries, and dancers.
The Director of Artistic Planning and Operations is responsible for developing and overseeing the artistic and orchestra budgets which, combined, are in the range of $9 million annually, as part of WNO’s annual operating budget of $30 million. This role takes responsibility for an array of financial and labor issues, participating in labor negotiations and liaising with unions, as necessary.
Responsibilities
- Principally responsible for working with the Artistic Director to cast WNO’s artists (principally solo singers and conductors but also encompassing directors, choreographers, music staff, etc.). Maintain travel schedule to attend performances and hold auditions (regionally, nationally, and internationally) to recruit and invite artists to WNO.
- Collaborate with General Director & CEO and Artistic Director to drive the season planning process according to WNO institutional priorities. Work closely with these colleagues as well as WNO’s Director of Production, Technical Director, Costume Director, and Director of the Cafritz Young Artist Program and other relevant members of the WNO Management Team on all future seasons and company-wide budgeting and planning.
- Responsible for the operational functions of WNO’s Artistic Department in accordance with applicable collective bargaining agreements. Supervise and manage three full-time staff members to accomplish the work of WNO’s artistic and orchestra operations, including contract administration, securing required visas, budget management, and oversight of music staff, the orchestra librarian, the WNO Orchestra, chorus, corps dancers, and supernumeraries.
- Provide artistic content for recitals, concerts, and special events as necessary.
- Act as WNO’s management liaison to guest artists, and attend performances and rehearsals as relevant to support guest artists and other members of the Artistic teams as described above.
- Manage the staffing of pre-performance lectures and post-performance Q&A sessions as well as development and audience engagement events, as needed.
- Ensure flow of artistic information throughout the company to support interdepartmental needs and planning. Review and approve all printed and digital materials pertaining to casts and artistic teams. Responsible for ensuring that WNO-specific artistic databases are updated to reflect current casting and contract information.
Qualifications
- 8 – 10 years’ experience in opera artistic management.
- Knowledge of opera, music, and the performing arts is a must; experience with managing collective bargaining agreements is preferred.
- Bachelor’s degree in artistic or related field or equivalent training/experience. Advanced degree a plus.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Must exercise good judgment, show initiative, and handle sensitive data in a trustworthy manner.
- Strong organizational skills and ability to work independently as well as collaboratively in a team environment.
- Discretion, maturity, and composure, especially under pressure.
- Ability to establish priorities and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- High standards and strong sense of responsibility.
- Comfortable with up to 30% domestic and international travel
- The Machine That Gave Birth To Mass Media
Before the late 1800s, printers had to arrange letters one-by-one on metal plates, a slow and painstaking process. Media maven Jeff Jarvis points out that, once the Linotype machine appeared toward the end of the 19th century, books and periodicals could be printed quickly enough to meet booming public demand. – The Christian Science Monitor
- UK Artist Visas Are Being Sold Fraudulently
Several companies have been helping migrants apply for UK visas under the government’s Global Talent program by creating fake art portfolios, complete with fake published art criticism and art news. – ARTnews
- Will A SciFi Booker Win Bring More Attention To The Genre?
Author and critic Olivia Laing agrees it’s taken the literary world “an embarrassingly long time to clock that you don’t need realism to write about how it feels to inhabit late capitalism and unravelling modernity”. – The Guardian
THEATRE
VISUAL
- Are We Scapegoating Our Phones?
Against the suggestion that the furor over phones is no different from past outcries over new technologies, some point to novel features of social media—exploitative algorithms or “infinite scrolling”—to argue that this case is different. – Boston Review
- Refugees And The Imagination Of Borders
Each of us had imagined a life that exceeded the border and acted upon that imagination. In that sense, the prison did not simply contain border-crossers; it brought together people whose aspirations had collided with the territorial imaginary of the nation-state. – Aeon
- What It Looks Like When The Internet Stops Working
Your bank’s app is down. The pharmacy cannot pull up your prescription. Your paycheck is late because the payroll company unplugged its system to be safe. None of it is a catastrophe on its own. All of it, every week, is a different country from the one we live in now. – Washington Post
- In Medieval Times, Curiosity Was A Negative
Curiosity was seen as a largely vacuous interest in novel or forbidden information. The curious person was thought to reach for what was hidden and secret, beyond their proper purview, and thereby isolate themselves from spiritual and social community. – MIT Reader
- Why Do Things Exist?
This very obvious fact about the world – that things exist – can shift from seeming mundane and trivial to very surprising, even downright weird. – Aeon