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• New Orleans Mardi Gras Blackface Tradition Under Fire

  08-03-2019 23:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  Modern-day Zulu Club members defend their practice by saying they are honoring the original group who were poking fun at the white actors. And there is a lot to like with this defense if you are a member of the Zulu Social Aid & Pleasure Club, or a preservationist-hawk for all New Orleans culture. However, if you are neither of those things and you happen to be in New Orleans for Mardi Gras, then Zulu blackface may not be for you. But you will be subjected to it anyway, even if it offen
  
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• A Firm Argument Against Meritocracy

  08-03-2019 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Although widely held, the belief that merit rather than luck determines success or failure in the world is demonstrably false. This is not least because merit itself is, in large part, the result of luck. Talent and the capacity for determined effort, sometimes called ‘grit’, depend a great deal on one’s genetic endowments and upbringing. – Aeon
  
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• Partnerships Executive / TodayTix / London

  08-03-2019 22:53
  Partnerships ExecutiveAbout TodayTix
  We’re on a mission to redefine the way people experience theatre. Launched in 2013 by lifelong friends and Broadway producers Merritt Baer and Brian Fenty,...
  
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• Study: Pop Song Lyrics Are More Violent Than Hip Hop

  08-03-2019 22:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Their most striking finding: The best-selling pop songs almost uniformly contain violent imagery. Amazingly, 99.5 percent of the pop hits they analyzed (198 in total) referred to violent acts. That’s slightly higher than the 94.7 percent of hip-hop numbers to feature such language, and far greater than the percentage of any other genre. – Pacific Standard
  
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• In The UK Translated Fiction Outsells English Fiction. It’s All About Collaboration

  08-03-2019 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Of course, translating isn’t only the business of people who get paid to do it. Around 300 languages are used daily in London, and New York may be home to as many as 800, according to the Endangered Language Alliance. Yet any talk of translating literature—rather than shopping lists or doctors’ orders—is oddly esoteric. – Prospect
  
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• Steven Pinker Enthuses About Humanity’s Progress. So Why Do So Many People Hate Him?

  08-03-2019 21:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  The dismissive term “Pinkering” has been coined to describe applying a too-sunny gloss to world events. A cartoon strip published in Current Affairs shows a crazed-looking Pinker staring into a mirror: “Remember,” cartoon Pinker says to himself, “no matter what people say it’s statistically impossible for you to be the worst person on the planet.” In addition, a surprising number of detractors have referred to Harvard’s Johnstone fam
  
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• That Caravaggio Found In The Attic Is Being Handled With Unusual Honesty

  08-03-2019 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  There has been plenty of disagreement about whether the painting of Judith beheading Holofernes that turned up in Toulouse in 2016 is an original Caravaggio or a copy. But the people selling it are doing the right things: allowing every scholar that wants examine it access, being generous with shows to the public, and leaving the sale to the auctioneer that found it rather than passing it to Sotheby’s or Christie’s. If only this sort of behavior weren’t so rare. – Apollo
  
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• Half of Two Days of Everything - an exhibition / Paradise Works / North West

  08-03-2019 21:00
  Preview: Friday 29 March, 6-8pm
  Open: Saturdays from 30 March - 14 April, 12-5pm, or by appointment
  Event: In conversation with Cherry Tenneson and curator Zoe Watson- Saturday 13 April, 2:00...
  
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• Senior Director of Marketing and Audience Development / Stratford Festival / Ontario, Canada

  08-03-2019 20:37
  THE ORGANIZATION
  The Stratford Festival is North America’s largest classical repertory theatre company. Each season, we present more than a dozen productions in four distinctive venues (one of...
  
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• Study: The Key To Successful Small Talk

  08-03-2019 20:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  The key to making the most out of small talk, according to Harvard researchers, is to simply ask the other person follow-up questions. In a series of experiments, researchers analyzed more than 300 online conversations and found that those who were asked more meaningful follow-up questions (a.k.a. questions that aren’t “how are you?” or “what do you do?”), found the other person much more likable. – CNBC
  
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• University of Exeter Arts and Culture Fellows 2019 / University of Exeter / South West

  08-03-2019 20:15
  The University of Exeter is inviting applications from creative practitioners for three Creative Fellowship opportunities. Each will be an exploratory placement, lasting four to five...
  
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• Peabody Essex Museum Names New Director

  08-03-2019 20:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  “After a five-month search, the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem has hired Brian Kennedy as its new director and CEO. Kennedy, now 57 years old, was born in Dublin and has worked for museums on three continents, including the National Gallery of Australia, the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College and the National Gallery of Ireland. He currently heads the Toledo Museum of Art, where he’s been since 2010.” – WBUR (Boston)
  
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• Carolee Schneemann obituary

  08-03-2019 19:50
  American pioneer of feminist art and avant-garde performanceWhen the artist Carolee Schneemann, who has died aged 79, first exhibited in Paris in 1964, a shocked Marcel Duchamp declared the performance the messiest work of art that France had ever witnessed. Meat Joy featured half a dozen men and women, semi-nude and plastered in red paint, writhing with dead fish and raw chicken, as well as each other.“Sensuality was always confused with pornography,” Schneemann later said of Meat J
  
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• Soho Street Photography / Westland Place Studios Photography / London

  08-03-2019 19:44
  Day:  Saturday 16th MarchTime: 1:00PMDuration: 2 hours
  Journey through London's Soho on this enthralling two hour guided photographic tour.
  Infamy and entertainment combine in this...
  
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• Can Shostakovich Help You Run Faster? (We’re Dubious)

  08-03-2019 19:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  When you hear music — or any rhythmic sound — it activates the portion of the brain that coordinates and times movement, the same neural pathways that regulate your running pace. While any upbeat tune has been proven to aid exercise, music timed so that you’re running in sync with the beat allows for a smoother experience. – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  
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• The Death Of García Lorca

  08-03-2019 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Aaron Shulman revisits the weeks that led up to that early morning in the summer of 1937 when the poet, dressed in pajamas and a blazer, was murdered by paramilitaries just off a dirt road in the hills above Granada. – Literary Hub
  
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• IT Service Delivery Manager / Sadler's Wells / London

  08-03-2019 18:55
  Full time position
  Sadler’s Wells is a world-leading dance house – a place where artists come together to create dance and where people of all ages and from all walks of life come to...
  
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• Artist (any discipline) for Meet Me at Live Age project / New Vic Theatre / West Midlands

  08-03-2019 18:54
  The New Vic Theatre, funded by The Paul Hamlyn Foundation, seeks an artist to work with local community groups as part of our Meet Me at Live Age project. This is part of the New Vic Theatre’s...
  
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• Senior Registrar / Marlborough Gallery, London / London

  08-03-2019 18:52
  We are looking for an experienced Registrar to join the team at a highly esteemed, international Blue-Chip Gallery in the heart of Mayfair. This is a rare and exciting opportunity for someone step in...
  
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• Deputy Box Office Manager / Churchill Theatre / South East

  08-03-2019 18:41
  Working as part of the HQ Theatres & Hospitality group and based at the Churchill Theatre in Bromley.  We are looking for a dynamic and engaging individual to shape the customer experience...
  
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• Psychologist Jonathan Haidt On Understanding Versus Advocating

  08-03-2019 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The mission of a university I believe should be to understand. And if you do a great job of research, that can be the basis for all kinds of activism later. But if you start with a commitment to a certain way of seeing the world, and you start with a belief that some people are good and some people are bad, I think it makes it very hard to understand real social systems.” – Nautilus
  
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• IT Infrastructure Manager / Sadler's Wells / London

  08-03-2019 18:25
  Full time position
  Sadler’s Wells is a world-leading dance house – a place where artists come together to create dance and where people of all ages and from all walks of life come to...
  
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• Teaching Students To Distinguish Real News, Fake News, And Bias (And What Happens When You Learn You Have To Interrogate **Everything**)

  08-03-2019 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  At the Ross School, a very pricey K-12 institution in the Hamptons, faculty have worked hard to create what CJR calls “the best media literacy program money can buy.” Alexandria Neason looks at how that program has been put together, how it’s been adapted to changes in media technology and current events, what elements are taught more widely around the U.S., and the feelings that developing media savvy brings forth in the kids themselves. – Columbia Journalism Review
  
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• BFI Network Talent Executive FHN / Showroom Workstation / Yorkshire / Sheffield

  08-03-2019 18:00
  Salary: £32,000
  (full time hours)Contract Terms: Fixed term contract until 31st March 2022 (strictly subject to BFI funding)
  Location: We would prefer the position to be based at the...
  
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• Parr's everyday absurdities and a return to the 60s – the week in art

  08-03-2019 17:50
  Hew Locke sails into Birmingham, Martin Parr hits the National Portrait Gallery and Anthea Hamilton resurrects the 60s – all in our weekly dispatchHew Locke
  Witty assemblage art that uncovers the darkness of Britain’s imperial history.
  • Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, until 2 June. Continue reading...
  
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• Street Dance Teacher / GLUE (The Tabernacle W11) / London

  08-03-2019 17:43
  GLUE is a community arts programme based at The Tabernacle W11, utilizing the arts to encourage young people to stick together. Providing free workshops in performing, visual and literary arts, we...
  
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• The Frustrating Circular Firing Squad Of Some Wikipedia Sourcing

  08-03-2019 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  So Wikipedia cites a source for a piece of information. The source cites Wikipedia. And around and around it goes. Trying to find out the original sourcing can be a frustratingly circular exercise. – Slate
  
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• Membership & Commercial Services Manager / National Gallery / London

  08-03-2019 17:19
  Membership & Commercial Services ManagerThe National Gallery 
  Membership is a key priority in this national museum’s Strategic Plan to become 50% self-funded by 2023.  With a new...
  
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• Learn & Train Project Manager (FTC) / Frantic Assembly / London

  08-03-2019 17:18
  We're searching for a talented individual, passionate about working with young people in the arts, to join our team as Learn & Train Project Manager. 
  As our Artistic and...
  
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• Digital Marketing & eCRM Manager / National Gallery / London

  08-03-2019 17:16
  Digital Marketing & eCRM ManagerThe National Gallery
  A newly created role within one of the UK’s national museums in the centre of London. Working under the supervision of the Senior...
  
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• Associate Curator (Collections Review) / Science Museum Group / North West

  08-03-2019 17:15
  Do you have a broad knowledge of the history of science, technology, engineering or industrial heritage? Do you have experience of working with and researching museum collections?
  As part of a...
  
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• Senior Commercial Services Manager / National Gallery / London

  08-03-2019 17:11
  Senior Commercial Services ManagerThe National GalleryCompetitive salary
  A newly created role within one of the UK’s national museums in the centre of London.  This is an opportunity for...
  
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• Cred Talks: Simon Quinn / Phoenix Brighton / South East

  08-03-2019 17:11
  Simon Quinn, the Animation Producer behind Isle of Dogs, Frankenweenie, Fantastic Mr Fox, Fireman Sam and Wussywat takes us behind the scenes. He's currently working on The Snail and the Whale and...
  
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• Virginia Walcott Beauchamp, Who Pioneered Women’s Studies As A Discipline, Dead At 98

  08-03-2019 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In her research and teaching, she pored over the records left by women who received little if any public attention during their lives but whose diaries, letters and other writings vividly revealed the eras in which they lived.” – The Washington Post
  
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• Sewing Assistant / Opera North / Yorkshire

  08-03-2019 16:59
  Opera North is England's national opera company in the north and a leading European arts organisation. Based in Leeds, the company is committed to producing work of the highest quality that excites,...
  
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• Sounds: Rdyer / Phoenix Brighton / South East

  08-03-2019 16:54
  Rdyer is interested in junk, outdated technology and recycling, using a loop pedal, musical saw, saxophone, and site-specific recordings to create performance art and pop songs.
  Date: 20 March...
  
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• Art Words: Manifestos and more... / Phoenix Brighton / South East

  08-03-2019 16:52
  Joseph Young will read a selection of manifestos, texts and artists’ polemics from the Italian Futurists to contemporary artists such as Alessandra Eramo, Anna Francis and Rowena Easton,...
  
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• Assistant Curator, Photography / Science Museum Group / London

  08-03-2019 16:48
  Do you have knowledge or experience of working with photography collections? Have you catalogued or documented museum or archive collections?
  As part of a programme of reviews we are seeking an...
  
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• Finance Manager (part time) / Academy of Ancient Music / East

  08-03-2019 16:47
  The AAM is looking to recruit a motivated and experienced Finance Manager with experience or knowledge of the financial regulation around charities.
  Full details of the position and how to apply can...
  
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• Movement Director / Icon Theatre / London / Southeast

  08-03-2019 16:45
  Icon Theatre is looking for a movement director for R&D for our next touring production ‘Cuckoo’, exploring county lines drugs dealing.   The R&D will run for four...
  
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• Marketing Apprentice / Chelmsford City Council / East

  08-03-2019 16:44
  A great opportunity to work with the Marketing team in the Council, to gain office experience and an understanding of marketing within Sports, Theatres, Museums; whilst working towards a level 2...
  
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• Junior Agent's Assistant / The Artists Partnership / London

  08-03-2019 16:43
  Junior/Office Assistant – Salaried Full Time Position
  The Artists Partnership are looking for a Junior/Office assistant for an Agent with a substantial client list in their busy talent...
  
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• Deputy Production Manager (Fixed-Term) / Sadler's Wells / London

  08-03-2019 16:43
  Fixed term one year
  Sadler’s Wells is a world-leading dance house – a place where artists come together to create dance and where people of all ages and from all walks of life come to...
  
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• London Theatre Consortium Apprenticeships / Battersea Arts Centre / London

  08-03-2019 16:40
  Battersea Arts Centre is part of London Theatre Consortium, which is now recruiting for apprentices in Business Administration and Cultural Venue Operations. One of the apprentices will be based here...
  
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• Deputy Theatres Manager / Chelmsford City Council / East

  08-03-2019 16:39
  An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic Deputy Theatres Manager to work at Chelmsford City Theatres. 
  Chelmsford Theatres will be embarking on significant changes in the coming 12...
  
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• Bellingham Fundraising Support Day, 29th March / Bellingham Regeneration Arts Group / London

  08-03-2019 16:38
  BRAG (Bellingham Regeneration Arts Group) are running a Fundraising Support Day in partnership with Bellingham Community Project.
  Improve your fundraising skills and dip in and out of a day of...
  
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• Video Producer / Halle Concerts Society / North West

  08-03-2019 16:35
  Reporting to the Digital Manager within the Communications department, the Video Producer will be responsible for high quality video content creation to support the continual development of the...
  
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• Tony Kushner And Heidi Schreck Talk About ‘What The Constitution Means To Me’

  08-03-2019 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  TK: “I’ve always been a little skeptical of the notion that there’s something sort of shamanistic or medicinal or restorative about theater in a kind of mysterious way, but I really felt that [the play] was that. And every time I went back, I left feeling more hope about the survival of our democracy.” New York magazine theater critic Sara Holdren does a Q&A with the two playwrights about Schreck’s hit, which Kushner has seen three times (so far). – New Y
  
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• Head of Marketing and Communications / Contact Theatre / North West

  08-03-2019 16:18
  Contact is a place like no other and this role is an opportunity like nothing else you will see this year. As Head of Marketing and Communications you will have the unique chance to play an...
  
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• Carolee Schneemann: the performance artist who taught us how to live

  08-03-2019 16:15
  With her supreme charisma and feminist trailblazing, Schneemann embodied creative living, and every moment of her existence was fodder for her wild artIt is bittersweet that the so-called global art world (still dominated by western, white and patriarchal values is finally taking note of maverick women artists, so many in their 70s, 80s and even 90s. Carolee Schneemann, who died this week aged 79, benefitted from this dynamic at the end of her life. But I know she shared my suspicion. Why now? W
  
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