Inside Out vs. Outside In
There are two schools of thought when it comes to eating a cinnamon roll. … These differing styles are a fair comparison to how organizations approach arts marketing. …read more
AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2015-10-06
Identifying Skills
Trying to determine what your strengths and weakness are as you assess the next step or new step in your career? When making a change to this degree, we can often take for granted our most powerful skills. … read more
AJBlog: Field Notes Published 2015-10-07
Finding Your Career Strategy
Matthew May urges us to consider a new definition of career planning. In fact, he tells us to throw away the word “planning” all together. … read more
AJBlog: Field Notes Published 2015-10-07
Fastest Route from Point A to Point B, Not Always a Straight Line
Ok. Let’s say you’ve done some soul searching, consulted your family and your most trusted advisors. You can now safely say that you know: ① where you are and ② where you want to be. Now what? … read more
AJBlog: Field Notes Published 2015-10-07
ISIS Crisis: AAMD’s Risky “Safe Haven” Initiative for Endangered Archaeological Material
Understandably distressed by the inability of the international cultural community to prevent the continued decimation of world heritage by ISIS, members of Association of Art Museum Directors could be putting their own institutions at risk by implementing … read more
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-10-07
What Happened
If you find yourself in the middle of Virginia this Saturday night, check out the Garth Newel Piano Quartet concert: they are playing a piece of mine from 2004 called What Happened. … read more
AJBlog: Infinite Curves Published 2015-10-07
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Author: Matthew Westphal
Plan To Revive New York City Opera Has Creditors’ Backing
“More than two years have passed since New York City Opera filed for bankruptcy, leaving in its wake large debts and a legal battle between two rival groups hoping to revive it. Now one of them has won the backing of an important constituency: the creditors who are owed money in the bankruptcy case.”
As Musicians Grow Frustrated, Philadelphia Orchestra Hires Consultant Michael Kaiser
“As talks continue between the Philadelphia Orchestra Association and musicians over a new labor pact, management has agreed to hire consultant Michael M. Kaiser to assist in addressing chronic big-picture challenges like fund-raising and strategic direction. Musicians have been frustrated in contract talks – not only with the financial details of the deals management has been floating, but also with the financial realities that appear to be underpinning those offers.”
Updating Shakespeare’s Language? They Used To Do It All The Time
“For poets, playwrights, editors, and actors from the seventeenth century through much of the nineteenth, Shakespeare’s language wasn’t intoxicating so much as intoxicated: it needed a sobering intervention. … Shakespeare’s script was the first problem that a production had to remedy. … So what changed? How did Shakespeare’s original texts regain their popularity?”
Marion True Does Not Deserve Our Sympathy, Says Archaeologist
“It’s worth stating again just a few of the things True admitted doing or is alleged to have done over a nearly 20-year career as curator. … She is no innocent scapegoat, nor is she a hero for calling attention to a problem she was helping to create.”
20 New Lines From The Epic Of Gilgamesh Discovered In Iraq, Adding New Details To The Story
“One of the oldest narratives in the world got a surprise update last month when the Sulaymaniyah Museum in the Kurdistan region of Iraq announced that it had discovered 20 new lines of the Babylonian-Era poem of gods, mortals, and monsters.”
Iran Threatens To Boycott World’s Largest Book Fair Because Salman Rushdie Is Speaking There
Said the Islamic Republic’s deputy minister for culture and Islamic guidance, “This has been organised by the Frankfurt book fair and crosses one of our political system’s red lines. We consider this move as anti-cultural. Imam Khomeini’s fatwa on this issue is reflective of our religion and it will never fade away. We urge organisers to cancel his address.”
Thousands Stand In Line To See ‘China’s Mona Lisa’
“Since an exhibition celebrating the 90th anniversary of the Palace Museum [in Beijing’s Forbidden City] opened in early September, people have been waiting for up to 10 hours to see this 17-foot-long masterpiece attributed to the painter Zhang Zeduan, an intricate ink-on-silk tableau of life in the Northern Song dynasty capital, Kaifeng. The best-known painting in the museum’s vast collection, it has been shown in public only a few times.”
Duke University Gets $25 Million Donation For New Arts Center
“Duke University is expanding its arts programs with a new building and a $25 million gift from David Rubenstein, chairman of the university’s Board of Trustees and a nationally known arts benefactor.” The 71,000-square-foot arts center “will include a dance studio along with a dozen multi-use studios, a 200-seat performance theater, a 100-seat film theater, a garden, lounge, library, reception space, a painting studio, offices and classrooms.”
South Carolina Ballet Company’s Home And School Destroyed In Floods
The Pavlovich Ballet School, headquarters for the Columbia Classical Ballet and “renovated just this summer, has been completely destroyed. During the flooding, water reached up to the ceiling of the studio. Costumes and music scores were ruined. … The entire building needs to be gutted.”