Art and Culture

This Week’s Highlights: The Boston Symphony has been “living on borrowed time” for years, says Keith Lockhart (Boston Globe). The Jungle Theater in Minneapolis has put its building up for sale (Star Tribune). London’s…
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Arts Engines highlights the perspectives of the thought leaders and game-changers who are creating significant impact in the field of the arts. As the only arts show of its kind with an African-American host, it is produced in…
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Union Arts Center, home of ACT Contemporary Theatre & Seattle Shakespeare Company, is excited to announce an opening for a Director of Production (DOP). Union Arts Center (UAC) has successfully launched our inaugural season,…
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Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay This week we collected 138 stories on ArtsJournal . Here’s what I learned: Cultural historian Joseph Horowitz published an alarm this week — part of a transcript of a conversation he had with…
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The California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco plans to lay off 53 employees and scale back some programs as it grapples with a growing budget deficit driven by rising costs and lagging revenue.The cuts, announced Tuesday, will…
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Georg Baselitz, a preeminent painter of postwar Germany and an engine of the 1980s Neo-Expressionist movement that rebuked Minimalism, and who would later come under fire for his comments about women artists, has died at 88. His death…
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Longtime arts and city government veteran Matthew Goudeau has been named San Francisco's first executive director of arts and culture.The role was created by Mayor Daniel Lurie, who vowed Monday, April 27 that "under my administration,…
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“A century ago, the median down … Park Avenue was much more welcoming than it is today, a place with seating and substantial plantings where you’d consider spending time. … In 2024, (New York City) announced a call for proposals…
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In a Broadway season notable for the strength of its musical revivals, there has been some concern that the best new musical Tony Award category might be particularly scrawny this year.The shows that left the biggest impression on me —…
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Whether you talk with engineers, venture capitalists, founders or managers, or with doomers, accelerationists, lefties or libertarians, the so-called San Francisco consensus on the impact of A.I. for workers is bleak. – The New…
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