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Academy Decides Not To Bar Streaming Movies From Oscars

The board of governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences “left intact Rule Two, the one that established that a film” — including one produced by Netflix or Amazon — “can be eligible for Oscars if it has a minimum 7-day theatrical run in a L.A. County commercial theater.” (Sorry, Mr. Spielberg.) – Deadline

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Here’s The Problem With The Backlash Against The Millions Pledged For Notre-Dame

Kathy LeMay: “The problem with [the complaints] is this: they do not help fundraisers unlock donor giving. … Imagine if after giving to help a family in need, articles were written about you asking why you aren’t helping families around the world?” – Inside Philanthropy

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Notre-Dame’s Organ Is Almost Completely Undamaged By Fire

“Pascal Quoirin, a specialist who restored the Notre Dame organ in 2017, … said ‘after two hours spent examining the instrumental part, I did not notice any damage that could have been caused by the fire.'” (Apparently, there is only dust that needs to be cleaned out.) – Yahoo! (AP)

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Henry Wollman Bloch, Art Philanthropist And Co-Founder Of H&R Block, Dead At 96

The primary beneficiary of Bloch’s largesse has been Kansas City’s Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: he spent three years as its board chairman, he and his wife are the name donors on the museum’s 2007 expansion and its 2015-17 renovation, and at the same time the couple gave a collection of 29 major Impressionist paintings to NAMA. – ARTnews

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In Case Of Counterfeit Rodins, French Court Sentences Businessman And Art Dealer

Last week a court of appeals in Paris handed septuagenarian U.S. businessman Gary Snell a suspended prison sentence of one year and Parisian art dealer Robert Crouzet a four-month suspended prison sentence as part of an 18-year legal battle over counterfeited Auguste Rodin sculptures. – Artsy

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In China, Two Historical Soap Operas Go Viral, And The Communist Party Promptly Cancels Them

The Story of Yanxi Palace and Ruyi’s Royal Love in the Palace smashed viewing records for the streaming services that showed them. Then the journal Theory Weekly (a title only a Communist bureaucrat could love) published an article condemning the series as “incompatible with the core values of socialism” and “[a] negative influence on society.” State media condemnation went on from there, and the series disappeared. Why? – The New Yorker

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Presenter Engagement

I have spoken with staff members of presenting organizations interested in community engagement who lament the fact that they are not in a position to select specific works themselves; they have to book what producing organizations are offering. Yet there are some ways in which the presenter is better positioned to support community engagement. – Doug Borwick

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Getting It Backwards: The Shed’s Architects Came 1st, Its Artistic Director a Distant 2nd

When an ambitious new cultural institution chooses its architect six years before appointing an artistic director/CEO, you know its priorities are upside-down and backwards. – Lee Rosenbaum

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Charity Tillemann-Dick, R.I.P.

Charity Tillemann-Dick, a coloratura soprano who suffered from pulmonary hypertension and who resumed her singing career after undergoing a double lung transplant, died this morning. – Terry Teachout

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Learning and Leadership Director for OPERA America – APPLY NOW

Apply to join the dynamic staff at OPERA America, the national service organization for opera. You could be the thought leader curating the way into the future of contemporary opera across the field.

Learning and Leadership Director Reports to: Chief Programs Officer Department: Programs Status: Full-time/Exempt

About the position The Learning and Leadership Director advances OPERA America’s commitment to increasing the exchange and curation of knowledge across the field, building leadership skills and strengthening professional development programs. The Director is responsible for remaining current with relevant research from across the arts industry and translating findings into learning opportunities for members through annual conferences, forums and publications. The Director reports to the Chief Programs Officer and works closely with the President/CEO and senior staff to promote learning across the organization.

The Learning and Leadership Director will strengthen OPERA America’s relationship with staff at member companies, providing high-quality customer service. The Director will work with members of the staff and Board of Directors to achieve shared goals.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Develop format and content for annual conferences, managing overall session planning and related support materials, including the conference website and app.

Work with staff to design learning experiences for all network forums and coordinate the sharing of learning with all members. Design, implement and evaluate professional development programs, including:

Leadership Intensive

Mentorship Program for Female Administrators

Workshops and webinars

Assist in the design and coordination of civic practice workshops and regional meetings.

Document and disseminate learning from OPERA America grant programs.

Participate in the collection and distribution of resources for OPERA

America ‘hubs’ in the areas of innovation, civic practice and equity, diversity and inclusion.

Cultivate relationships with partner organizations, including the other national arts services organizations to share resources.

Preferred Skills

Experience as a full-time staff member of a producing opera organization and/or extensive experience working in opera administration.

Experience serving as an organizational thought leader demonstrating sustained intellectual curiosity.

Experience planning large-scale learning events, including the design of sessions; identifying and contracting speakers, and managing speaker and session logistics.

Ability to communicate complex ideas in verbal and written form across various platforms.

Strong analytic skills and ability to work independently.

Detail-oriented with ability to meet deadlines.

Excellent interpersonal skills.

Commitment to teamwork and partnerships within and outside the organization.

Project management experience.

Knowledge of Windows and Microsoft Office Suite, including Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint is required. Knowledge of CVent, Eventbrite and Formstack a plus.

Salary and Compensation Salary commensurate with experience, expected in $70Ks. Excellent benefits package including health and dental coverage, pension, paid time off, life insurance, access to rehearsal/performance venue, and opportunities to network with opera leaders nationwide. Desired start date by May 20, 2019.

To Apply Please send the following materials to Laura Lee Everett, chief programs officer, at [email protected]:

Cover letter (articulating your interest in this particular position)

Resume (outlining your career accomplishments)

Writing sample (such as a programming proposal or other professional document)

OPERA America is an equal opportunity employer.

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More Than 7000 TV Writers Have Fired Their Agents, Says Union

The writers’ union’s memo also claimed, “Most of the writers who haven’t yet signed termination letters are retirees or no longer actively working.” – New York Magazine

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Suzanne Farrell Back At City Ballet – What It Means

Alastair Macaulay: “What makes Ms. Farrell so important? Her place in Balanchine history is central: She inspired him to make some of his most radically modernist works; opened up fresh torrents of Romanticism in him; showed how old roles could be transformed. She combined grandeur, musicality, wit, fervor and acumen to phenomenal degrees.” – The New York Times

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Report: By Next Year More Canadians Will Be Streaming Than Paying For Cable TV

It’s an amazingly fast shift in how people are watching. The amount they watch hasn’t gone done, just how they access it. And, perhaps a shift in what they watch too. – CBC

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Study: People Don’t Empathize Because It’s Too Much Work

“There is a common assumption that people stifle feelings of empathy because they could be depressing or costly. But we found that people primarily just don’t want to make the mental effort to feel empathy toward others, even when it involves feeling positive emotions.” – Pacific Standard

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Serious Shade: The Stupid Classics Book Club

It’s easy to dive into a classic book and after awhile get the feeling you’re reading something dull. Something… well, dumb. That may, of course be more about you and where you’re coming from than it is about the classic… – The Paris Review

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Just How Enlightened Was The Age Of Enlightenment?

“It has been said, indeed, that the eighteenth century was less the Age of Reason than the Age of Feelings—because so many Enlightenment thinkers took pride in recognizing the importance of the sentiments, as their intellectual predecessors often had not. (In Hume’s famous line: “Reason is and ought only to be the slave of the Passions.”) The aim of building a rational society meant contending with the ways in which human beings are not creatures of sweet reason. And that meant, in turn, having some way of deciding what rationality demanded.” New York Review of Books

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Katy Waldman Was Reviewing A Novel. Then She Found Herself In It. And On It Goes From There.

Well, she’s pretty sure she found herself — more specifically, an essay she wrote about herself and her twin sister — but the novel’s author differs. And the author of another book claims she found more of it in Waldman’s essay than Waldman credited her for. (Waldman differs, as does her editor, who was her twin sister.) Waldman digs into all this here, in a very meta essay. – The New Yorker

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