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• An Author Reflects On The Agony Of Second-Book Syndrome

  28-02-2019 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Hannah Beckerman: “Six years and many thousands of unpublished words later, my second novel is finally about to hit bookshops. Except that it’s not really my second novel. It is, in truth, my fifth. Because for the past six years, I’ve suffered from that widespread and yet rarely acknowledged creative affliction: second novel syndrome.”– Irish Times
  
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• Art Institute Of Seattle Faces Closure

  28-02-2019 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  That’s unless someone buys the troubled institution. “According to a Seattle Times report from last October, in 2017 a faith-based nonprofit called Dream Center Foundation bought the Art Institutes franchise, as well as South University and Argosy University. The company then started closing Art Institutes all around the country. Of 31 total AIs, only 18 remain. Going into this fall, the Times reports, the Seattle campus had laid off all but 3 full-time professors.”
  
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• A Closer Look At Netflix’s Business Model

  28-02-2019 22:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Netflix is not in the business of selling individual movies to many different customers. Instead, it’s in the business of selling many different movies to individual customers—in bundles. Bundled subscriptions allow Netflix to practice a different kind of price discrimination from the movie studios. The company doesn’t have to figure out how much a consumer values any individual movie on the service. The bundle does that for them—very profitably. – Harvard Business
  
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• Red Fish, Blue Fish, Racist Fish? A Dr. Seuss Debate Breaks Out

  28-02-2019 21:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  That tension between Seuss and Seuss-free classrooms is emblematic of a bigger debate playing out across the country — should we continue to teach classic books that may be problematic, or eschew them in favor of works that more positively represent people of color? – NPR
  
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• Should Historical Art And Artifacts Be Returned To The Country Where They Were Created? (A Four-Way Debate)

  28-02-2019 21:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Author Tiffany Jenkins (Keeping Their Marbles) argues no; Africanist Marie Rodet argues yes, “as part of a reparation process”; anthropology museum director Nicholas Thomas says, in so many words, “It depends”; diplomatic historian Ioannis Stefanidis illustrates just how complicated the question can get with the example of the very-well-traveled “Horses of Saint Mark.” – History Today
  
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• Departures: André Previn And Ira Gitler

  28-02-2019 20:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  In interviews, I found Previn bemused by the difficulty that critics, and sometimes his fellow musicians, encountered when they tried to strike a balance in considering his variegated musical personas.
  Gitler was an invaluable chronicler of the crucial years when jazz made the transition from the swing era into bebop and a model of clarity. – Doug Ramsey
  
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• Recent Listening: The Bill Mays Trio Is Back

  28-02-2019 20:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  Bill Mays Trio Live At COTA
  Pianist Mays recently reassembled his trio for a concert and their first CD release in more than ten years. Mays, bassist Martin Wind and drummer Matt Wilson came together in a live performance at last Fall’s COTA (Celebration Of The Arts) festival in the Poconos. – Doug Ramsey
  
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• 'Lost Caravaggio' rejected by the Louvre may be worth £100m

  28-02-2019 20:38
  Painting that sellers insist is by 17th-century master is to be sold after being found in atticSellers of a painting that they insist is a lost Caravaggio and worth in excess of £100m have announced it will be sold this summer without a reserve.The large painting of Judith beheading Holofornes was found by accident in a Toulouse attic in 2014. It has been pored over by art history experts and scientifically analysed and a highly convincing case has been made that it is from around 1607 and
  
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• Looking At Nudes In The #MeToo Era

  28-02-2019 20:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Museums and galleries – especially those representing a canonical European art tradition – burst with images of women disrobed and displayed for the delectation of men. Of course, there is nothing new about recognising the extent to which the spectacularisation of the female body has been part of a structure of oppression of women by men. – The Guardian
  
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• Arts and Culture Writers / The Gallyry Magazine / London

  28-02-2019 20:15
  the gallyry is a new online magazine and community, created to unite and support women in the arts. We hope to create a friendly and unintimidating space for women to talk...
  
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• Theatre Made By Ex-Inmates To Show Outsiders That Prison Is Not Like ‘Orange Is The New Black’

  28-02-2019 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Matt Trueman meets the women of the company Clean Break and playwright Luke Barnes, who talk about their scripts and the work they produce both inside and outside prisons. – The Guardian
  
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• Studio Administrator / Noatune Studios / London

  28-02-2019 19:41
  Noatune has 3 beautiful Scandinavian designed recording / production studios in London Fields in Hackney and separately runs two music rehearsal studios in Manor House. We're now looking for another...
  
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• Wendy Whelan And Jonathan Stafford Are New York City Ballet’s New Leaders

  28-02-2019 19:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Jonathan Stafford, 38, who has been running the company for more than a year on an interim basis, will become the new artistic director of City Ballet as well as its affiliated academy, the School of American Ballet. Wendy Whelan, 51, a star ballerina who danced with the company for 30 years, will become City Ballet’s associate artistic director. The two said they intended to work as partners.” – The New York Times
  
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• André Previn, 89

  28-02-2019 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “[He] was a musical polymath who began composing for Hollywood at 16 and won a quartet of Oscars, and had additional careers as a jazz piano phenomenon and major symphonic conductor. All the while, he … was considered something of a playboy as he leapt with swaggering allure between Hollywood and the directorship of some of the world’s leading orchestras, often using his celebrity and skillfulness as a raconteur to bring wider attention to classical music.” – The
  
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• Stage Manager / HighRise Theatre / London

  28-02-2019 19:12
  HighRise are looking to collaborate with a highly organised and passionate stage manager to research new event #UKDRILLPROJECT
  HighRise are developing a collection of ideas and conversations around...
  
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• Set/Costume Designer / HighRise Theatre / London

  28-02-2019 19:08
  HighRise are looking to collaborate with a highly creative designer to research new event #UKDRILLPROJECT
  HighRise are developing a collection of ideas and conversations around UK Drill music;...
  
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• Translating The Hebrew Bible As The Poetry It Is

  28-02-2019 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Few English-speakers are aware that much of ancient Jewish scripture is written in sophisticated verse, full of wordplay and soundplay. Translators have concentrated on the meaning of the words, sacrificing what Robert Alter calls the “music” of the original text. He has done a new translation that concentrates on that “music,” and here he explains how he did it — and why it matters. – Aeon
  
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• Photo Scratch Workshop: Language for your Photographs / Photo Scratch / London

  28-02-2019 18:49
  Photo Scratch Workshop: Language for your Photographs
  Every photographer building a career needs to be able to write about their work. From website blurb, to grant applications, biographies and...
  
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• Casual Conductor / Casual Music Teacher / Cognus Ltd / London

  28-02-2019 18:43
  Casual Conductor / Casual Music Teacher - Cognus LtdWorking hours: CasualContract type: CasualSalary from: £32.14 per hour (Casual Conductor)  £27.75 per hour (Casual Music...
  
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• Call Out: Free Events And Workshops Space / Stour Space / London

  28-02-2019 18:30
  We are looking for art organisations, art collectives, independent artists, charitable initiatives, cultural groups, social activists who need a free space to organise workshops, test new audiences,...
  
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• Kathleen Turner (Yes, That Kathleen Taylor) And What She Learned Making Her Opera Debut

  28-02-2019 18:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  Once she understood the training that goes into distinguishing such voices, she began to fully appreciate the difference in acting styles from what the audience might expect in a non-musical. Opera’s bend towards high drama can only be conveyed through vocal ability, which deprioritizes Turner’s acting preference of a more natural technique. – The Observer
  
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• Customer Experience Manager (Retail) / Bristol Hippodrome / South West

  28-02-2019 18:13
  The Ambassador Theatre Group is an extraordinary success story in the live entertainment industry. Founded in 1992 in the UK, we’ve grown into the world’s number one live-theatre company...
  
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• PT Production Assistant - Hull Carnival Crew Project / Apus Productions - Hull Carnival Arts / Yorkshire

  28-02-2019 18:09
  Hull Carnival Arts is part of Apus Productions Ltd, a Hull based outdoor arts company, delivering innovative and inspiring spectacles, to audiences that are hard to reach and/or engage, leaving a...
  
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• PT Freelance Volunteer Co-ordinator - Hull Carnival Crew Project / Apus Productions - Hull Carnival Arts / Yorkshire

  28-02-2019 18:03
  Hull Carnival Arts is part of Apus Productions Ltd, a Hull based outdoor arts company, delivering innovative and inspiring spectacles, to audiences that are hard to reach and/or engage, leaving a...
  
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• Ira Gitlin, One Of America’s Greatest Jazz Writers, Dead At 90

  28-02-2019 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “[His] criticism appeared regularly in publications like DownBeat and JazzTimes. He wrote two books about bebop, the challenging form of modern jazz that emerged in the 1940s. And, along with Leonard Feather and Nat Hentoff, he was among the most prodigious writers of liner notes, annotating more than 700 albums. In 2017 he was named a Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts.” – The New York Times
  
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• Behind the glitter: Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade 2019 – in pictures

  28-02-2019 18:00
  We take a look at the Mardi Gras warehouse where the final touches of glitter and lights have been made on the floats ahead of Saturday’s event Continue reading...
  
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• Fundraising Manager / Shakespeare Schools Foundation / London

  28-02-2019 17:50
  Shakespeare Schools Foundation (SSF) is a national cultural education charity that exists to instil curiosity and empathy, aspiration and self-esteem, literacy and teamwork - giving young people the...
  
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• Why Rebels And Non-Conformists Tend To Look The Same – A Study

  28-02-2019 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  This is the hipster effect—the counterintuitive phenomenon in which people who oppose mainstream culture all end up looking the same. Similar effects occur among investors and in other areas of the social sciences. How does this kind of synchronization occur? Is it inevitable in modern society, and are there ways for people to be genuinely different from the masses? – MIT Technology Review
  
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• Cradle of Magic review – Damien Hirst's lavish tribute to two men he blew away

  28-02-2019 17:22
  Newport Street Gallery, London
  Damien Hirst has dipped into his own collection to deliver a heartfelt elegy to the frenzied, forgotten paintings of John Bellany and Alan DavieDamien Hirst is like Schrödinger’s cat. Just as the creature postulated by physicist Erwin Schrödinger is both dead and alive in a box until it’s opened, so the artist in Hirst is either genuinely brilliant or absolutely terrible. Predicting if you’ll get the freaky genius or his arrogant twin is
  
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• Why Readers And Viewers Love Stories About Real-Life Scams

  28-02-2019 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  People seem to devour articles, books, and documentaries about the likes of the Fyre Festival and Theranos; Bernie Madoff and Enron are household names. “Reminding ourselves that sometimes liars do get caught and sometimes thieves are punished makes it easier to believe it could happen again. What we like about stories about scammers, I think, is born of the place where envy meets outrage: It’s incredibly unfair, and definitely evil, but also, why didn’t I think of that?&rdquo
  
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• Bracing And Incendiary Questions About The Classical Music World’s New Interest In Florence Price

  28-02-2019 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Given the longstanding historical exclusion of African American composers, Price’s sudden rise to stardom might raise a few eyebrows. Is the sudden widespread interest in Price’s music a convenient fad? Are predominantly white institutions exploiting her legacy for short-term gain—what Nancy Leong has called ‘racial capitalism’?” – NewMusicBox
  
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• Accounts Officer / National Theatre / London

  28-02-2019 16:59
  We are recruiting an Accounts Officer to join our busy Finance Department.
  This role forms an integral part of the Accounts Payable team. The successful candidate will be involved in the day to day...
  
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• Distribution Co-Ordinator / Komedia / South East

  28-02-2019 16:53
  Komedia is looking for an enthusiastic and hard-working Distribution Coordinator to join its busy Marketing Department. Must be available a minimum of 20 hours p/week increasing to 30 hours...
  
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• Business Development Manager / Dance City / North East

  28-02-2019 16:51
  Who we areBased in the centre of Newcastle upon Tyne with its own purpose-built studios, theatre, offices, café and rental space Dance City isthedance agency for the North East.
   
  To...
  
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• Assistant Editor / Ceramic Review / London

  28-02-2019 16:43
  Ceramic Review, the leading magazine for contemporary ceramics, ceramic art, pottery and craft is seeking a proactive Assistant Editor to join its small, busy team. 
  Working closely and...
  
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• There’s A Massive Bidding War For TV Showrunners. Blame Netflix

  28-02-2019 16:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  Shonda Rhimes, Ryan Murphy, J.J. Abrams and their fellows are now getting nine-figure production deals, with next-rung creators like Mindy Kaling and Seth MacFarlane landing eight figures. Why? First Netflix, and then deep-pocketed Amazon and Apple, are competing with traditional studios to lock down the intellectual property those individuals create and supervise, and there are very few people who can do what they do. – Fast Company
  
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• Project Curator: Arctic Exhibition SEG / The British Museum / London

  28-02-2019 16:31
  The British Museum is seeking to appoint a Project Curator: Arctic exhibition to support the Arctic exhibition project team, working closely with the Curator, Project Manager and other members of the...
  
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• Head of Strategy and Business Planning (IWM London) / Imperial War Museums / London

  28-02-2019 16:31
  The Head of Strategy and Planning manages our corporate planning, risk and performance management and reporting and will develop and deliver strategic initiatives, including measuring social and...
  
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• Revenue Management Assistant (Theatre) / See Tickets / London

  28-02-2019 16:18
  To be a member of the Revenue Management Team working on show set-up, revenue management, maintenance and administration. Working on special projects such as Kids Week and NYS. Working alongside the...
  
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• Why Doesn’t Dance Have Preview Runs The Way Theatre Does?

  28-02-2019 16:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Money is a factor. But even a few extra zeroes wouldn’t necessarily change the creative process for concert work, where priorities tend to revolve around giving an idea its fullest expression, not how it will be received by an audience.” – Dance Magazine
  
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• Ukulele Teachers / The Strings Club Ltd / West Midlands

  28-02-2019 16:02
  The Strings Club is an award-winning music education company offering children aged 4-11 a range of high-quality musical experiences, specifically centred around string instruments including the...
  
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• Arts For Social Change Meeting, Manchester / Cardboard Citizens / North West

  28-02-2019 16:01
  Following the success of our first Arts for Social Change meeting, and as part of the new Cardboard Camp programme in Manchester, we’re excited to share with you our follow...
  
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• Dwell Time Launch Programme / Dwell Time / Yorkshire / Huddersfield / Penistone / Sheffield

  28-02-2019 15:57
  Dwell Time Launch
  20th - 22nd March 2019
  Huddersfield – Penistone - SheffieldDwell time: The time a train spends at a scheduled stop without moving. Typically, this time is spent boarding...
  
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• Heritage Project Manager / Clean Break / London

  28-02-2019 15:56
  HERITAGE PROJECT MANAGER
  Groundbreaking theatre company Clean Break is seeking a Heritage Project Manager to lead the Company’s 40th Anniversary Heritage Project, which will commence in spring...
  
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• Coordinator and PA to the Associate Director / Science Museum Group / London

  28-02-2019 15:52
  Do you have experience of coordinating meetings, working groups and committees? Have you worked to tight deadline and prioritised multiple conflicting tasks?
  In this role, you will provide...
  
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• Company Stage Manager, On The High Road / Clod Ensemble / London

  28-02-2019 15:46
  Clod Ensemble is looking for an experienced Company Stage Manager to join us for the rehearsals and tour of On The High Road in April and May 2019.About the show
  A disparate group of...
  
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• Director of Music & Music Technology / Dover College / South East

  28-02-2019 15:40
  Dover College is seeking a Director of Music & Music Technology who can exert leadership, promote efficient co-operation within the department with an aim of providing a stimulating educational...
  
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• Project Management for Creatives - 26 April 2019 / Creative Training Hub / London

  28-02-2019 15:36
  PROJECT MANAGEMENT FOR CREATIVES - 26 APRIL 2019
  This one day workshop provides an introduction to project management. You will leave this course with a valuable project management tool-kit,...
  
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• The Renaissance Nude review – a sexy, sacred riot of flesh

  28-02-2019 15:34
  Royal Academy, London
  Naked men cruise, fight and flagellate, nude nymphs brandish whips, and creatures ambush sleeping maidens. What an astonishing show – I could look all dayFull of surprises, and a few shocks, sexy, sacred and profane, The Renaissance Nude is almost as salacious as it is scholarly. With substantial loans from all over Europe and the US, the exhibition has travelled from the J Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, and now fills the Sackler galleries at the Royal Academy.It i
  
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