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• Visit North Somerset Arts Week 2019 / North Somerset Arts / South West

  07-04-2019 22:37
  North Somerset Arts Week 2019 is our 9th biennial event, and includes over 40 venues and 200 artists within the North Somerset region.
  This 10 day arts trail offers a fantastic opportunity to...
  
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• Sessional Additional Support Worker / Creative Paths (EM) CIC / East Midlands

  07-04-2019 22:34
  We are looking for a creative, caring and fun person to provide additional learning support cover over the summer term on our community learning programme. The vacancy is to provide cover on four...
  
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• A New Miniseries Sets Out To Right An Imbalance In Dance History

  07-04-2019 22:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Is Bob Fosse one of your artistic heroes? Perhaps it’s time to join NPR host Scott Simon in letting go of that idea, in learning more about Gwen Verdon, and in understanding how creative partnerships work on Broadway and in the movies. The writer of Fosse/Verdon: “In our culture, there’s this obsession with the idea of the singular genius, and the auteur, and who created this film or who created this musical. And the truth is, it’s an army of people every time.” &n
  
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• Here’s What Spotify Probably Should Know About Tencent Music

  07-04-2019 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Chinese media company is way more than “The Spotify of China” – it’s “a mash-up of music streaming and social networking, enabling users to listen to music, sing with friends, and buy digital merchandise.” Oh, and there’s a digital karaoke app too. – The Motley Fool
  
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• The Writers Guild Deadline Gets Extended To Friday

  07-04-2019 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  The extension came right before the original deadline of 12:01 am on April 7th, “after a Saturday afternoon meeting with a small group of talent agents, at which the agencies said that they would present proposals to the guild for a negotiated settlement and requested an extension. But the guild warned that the requested extension, 12:01 a.m. April 13, would be a ‘true deadline.'” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• A New York Club Founded In The 1970s By The Child Of Sharecroppers Is Still Going Strong

  07-04-2019 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  At the Sugar Hill Restaurant & Supper Club, owner Eddie Freeman and his family have seen every kind of music and dancing from disco to house music to whatever the white hipsters now gentrifying Bedford-Stuyvesant are into. “One thing has remained consistent throughout all of the renovations and changes in clientele: ‘The music makes you want to dance.'” – The New York Times
  
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• The Intense, Often Silent Relationship Of Authors And Their Translators

  07-04-2019 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  The dance of translation can be difficult and sublime, but the author and translator(s) can never forget (or sometime forgive) the fact that “translation is not only a two-way but a three-way relationship, with the publisher – the person who takes the financial risk – as the third partner.”  – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• The Latin American Movie-Makers Rejecting Machismo

  07-04-2019 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  At Madrid’s Film for Women Festival, three directors agree that quotas aren’t ideal, but they might be necessary right now. “At least until there is some equality. ‘Or better, let’s talk about equity,’ says [Argentinean director] Lorena Muñoz.”– El País (Spain)
  
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• The mirror in Richard II

  07-04-2019 19:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  What does it mean for the deposed monarch in the Globe’s new production to see the face of a Black woman? – David Jays
  
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• Volunteer Research Coordinator / Strike a Light - Arts & Heritage / South East

  07-04-2019 19:36
  Volunteer Research Coordinator Shalom Sussex - The Jewish Community in WWI project
  Freelance position 10 days (80 hours ) 30th April - 30th December 2019Total Fee: £1400
  Strike a Light...
  
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• A Book As Artist’s Fever Dream

  07-04-2019 19:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  The book Flesh Film is as much the artist’s creation as the author’s. – Jan Herman
  
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• As Movie Studios Keep Churning Out Superheroes, Who Is Shazam, Again?

  07-04-2019 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Other than a fun lunkhead, Shazam – who, let’s just go for maximum confusing here, used to be called Captain Marvel – is one of comic books’ most important superheroes, historically speaking: “In his prime, he regularly outsold Superman and Batman. And he was the first comic book superhero to appear on film.” – The New York Times
  
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• Martha Graham and Beyond

  07-04-2019 19:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  A strenuous program of dances may have pleased the choreographer – if she only could have offered minor corrections. – Deborah Jowitt
  
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• Scott Robinson’s ‘Tenormore’

  07-04-2019 19:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Whoa: “An out-and-out plug on Rifftides is rare.” – Doug Ramsey
  
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• Dan Robbins’ Painting By Numbers Revolutionized Art

  07-04-2019 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Robbins – who just died at 93 – changed the relationship of the average, at-home painter to abstract art through his homely scenes that, reduced down to color shapes with numbers in them, influenced (and delighted) Andy Warhol. Robbins’ clever idea did more, though – “its secret influence can be seen right through 60s American art.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Open Call for the 7th International Photography Festival / PHOTO IS:RAEL / Israel

  07-04-2019 18:40
  Open Call for Participation in the 7th International Photography Festival
  PHOTO IS:RAEL invites artists to submit proposals for participation in the central exhibition as well as special projects at...
  
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• This Norwegian National Ballet Principal Is Balancing A Career, Another Career, And Parenthood

  07-04-2019 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Moving to Norway can focus the mind, or so says former Houston Ballet star Melissa Hough: “I had quite a few life revelations that took me by surprise. I began to ask myself a lot of hard questions and forced myself to find the answers. One of these questions was, ‘Do you want to be a choreographer and if so, why?'” – Pointe Magazine
  
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• 'It went in beautifully as the postman was passing': the story of the Headington Shark

  07-04-2019 18:14
  The fibreglass fish in the roof of an Oxford house was commissioned in 1986 by Bill Heine, who died last weekOne April evening in 1986, Bill Heine was sat on the steps opposite his newly purchased terraced house in Oxford, drinking a glass of wine, when he turned to his friend and asked a simple question: “Can you do something to liven it up?”His friend, the sculptor John Buckley, provided an answer in the shape of a 8 metre (25ft) shark which would sit on his roof, perpetually appea
  
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• If You Judged By TV Shows, You’d Think Most Bisexual People Were Psychopaths

  07-04-2019 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  What’s up with the terrible representation, TV? Of course, “the sexually manipulative bi character is not so unique,” but Villanelle, Frank Underwood, and Annalise Keating’s characters shade more into the diabolical. – BuzzFeed
  
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• Making it Accessible: Art and Inclusivity Workshop / AfterHours / London

  07-04-2019 17:37
  Are you an art worker or an artist who worries about accessibility? Do you wonder how to make your workplace or practice more inclusive of disabled people? Do you have questions you’d like to...
  
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• Does Australia Need Its Own Turner Prize?

  07-04-2019 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Maybe. Australia seems to have prizes for everything in art, but none is a big national prize like the Turner in the UK. “A major, national contemporary art prize therefore needs two things: a continuing bequest to support the prize financially, and a group of major institutions to support it.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Drag King Comedy Workshop / Nincompoop / South West

  07-04-2019 15:49
  A workshop and competition show in the fierce vulnerability of male drag, exclusively for female-identified performersDrag queens aren't the only funny ones. Not by a longshot. We will find, hone,...
  
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• Metal chaser / Milwyn Casting Ltd / South East

  07-04-2019 13:51
  Experienced art foundry metal chaser needed. This position is full time, salary based on skill and experience. Experience in other parts of lost wax casting would be a bonus. 
  
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• On my radar: Paul Simonon’s cultural highlights

  07-04-2019 10:59
  The former Clash bassist on the prescience of HG Wells, the joys of Verlaine and the culinary genius of Giorgio LocatelliBorn in London in 1955, Paul Simonon was the Clash’s bassist from the band’s formation in 1976 until its dissolution 10 years later. He then started rockabilly band Havana 3am; after their split in 1996, he pursued a career as a painter. He returned to music with supergroup the Good, the Bad and the Queen in 2007 and was also involved in the 2010 Gorillaz album Pla
  
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• Rediscovered masterpiece ‘was actually work of Malevich's pupil’

  07-04-2019 10:32
  Art lover tracks portrait hailed as by Kazimir Malevich through Soviet archivesBilled as a rediscovered masterpiece by Kazimir Malevich, the portrait of a bohemian Russian woman holding a red bag was the charismatic star of a London exhibition in 2014. Critics picked out the image for special praise in the Tate Modern show dedicated to the avant-garde painter.But now the painstaking research of a Russian art lover has exposed art world chicanery that appears to lead from the Soviet culture wars
  
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• Thukral and Tagra: Bread, Circuses and TBD; Kimsooja: To Breathe – review

  07-04-2019 09:00
  Yorkshire Sculpture Park
  A new gallery opens with a bout of conscience wrestling. Across the park, Kimsooja’s chapel of light would be perfect but for the heavy breathingA new gallery has opened in the rolling green paradise of Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Or rather an ace cafe with a space for art. The new Weston building, a visitor centre designed by architects Feilden Fowles, is light-filled, airy and undoubtedly beautiful, its concrete and polished plaster tinted to match the sandstone be
  
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• Edvard Munch ‘reunited’ with fiancee for British Museum show

  07-04-2019 08:03
  Portrait was sawn in half by the artist after he was shot in a bedroom scuffleEdvard Munch’s most angst-filled moment may well not be represented by his best known work, The Scream. Another painting in a British Museum exhibition that opens on Thursday holds the key to a moment of greater drama and violence in the Norwegian painter’s troubled life.In 1902 inside the bedroom at the home of his fiancee, Tulla Larsen, an argument escalated and shots were fired. Munch, who sustained a bu
  
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• Russian artist’s masterpiece ‘was work of a pupil’

  07-04-2019 08:00
  Art lover tracks portrait hailed as by Kazimir Malevich through Soviet archivesBilled as a rediscovered masterpiece by Kazimir Malevich, the portrait of a bohemian Russian woman holding a red bag was the charismatic star of a London exhibition in 2014. Critics picked out the image for special praise in the Tate Modern show dedicated to the avant-garde painter.But now the painstaking research of a Russian art lover has exposed art world chicanery that appears to lead from the Soviet culture wars
  
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• 25 spring culture highlights

  07-04-2019 08:00
  Keith Haring in Liverpool, the return of Killing Eve, the Spice Girls on tour – our critics on the new season in the artsHollywood hardly wants for quirky coming-of-age comedies, and nor are people crying out for more actors to realise their dream of sitting in the director’s chair. Yet three films in cinemas this spring tick both boxes, and all are fresh, surprising and free of vanity-project vapours. Olivia Wilde, an actor who consistently seems sharper than the films she finds her
  
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