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• “Not Good Enough”: London’s Royal Opera House Announces 19 Male Conductors, One Woman For New Season

  15-05-2019 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Royal Opera’s director of opera, Oliver Mears, was asked if that was a good ratio. “No it is not an acceptable ratio at all … of course,” he said. “But this is something which is a long-term project. It’s not going to happen instantly and in the following years we have a much better ratio of female conductors and it is something which is is an absolute priority for us.” – The Guardian
  
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• Senior Technician / Sound No.1 - Witness for the Prosecution / Witness London Ltd / London

  15-05-2019 23:10
  Witness for the Prosecution is looking to appoint a dynamic and motivated Senior Technician to take a lead on all technical requirements of this site-specific production in the Grade II...
  
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• Trump Proposed Killing The NEA. House Democrats Propose A Budget Increase

  15-05-2019 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  The bill funds the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Both would receive $167.5 million, an increase of $12.5 million from current spending. – The Hill
  
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• Polite? Pleasant? Not Words You Ever Thought Would Characterize The Whitney Biennial

  15-05-2019 22:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  Linda Yablonsky: “Considerate” and “pleasant” are not words I ever expected to apply to a show that carries outrage and upset in its historical baggage. With works by 75 participants, this biennial is an airy installation of refined art as free of bombast as it is of new ideas. It doesn’t preen. It doesn’t strut. Strangely, for an exhibition that aligns with the politics of resistance, it doesn’t ruffle many feathers, either.” – The Art News
  
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• Daniel Libeskind Designing Museum Of Humans In Kenya

  15-05-2019 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  The project was commissioned by conservationist Richard Leakey, whose fossil discoveries have helped reveal how humankind has evolved. “The museum — titled ‘ngaren’ — will be the first center of its kind to present research, discovery, and exploration of more than two million years of human history and the origins of our universe from evolution, biodiversity, and overpopulation, to war, disease, and climate change.” – DesignBoom
  
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• Pittsburgh Opera Postpones Major New Opera. What (If Anything) Does This Say About New Opera? (About Pittsburgh Opera?)

  15-05-2019 21:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  The company expected to deliver“Bhutto” — a dramatic treatment of the history of Pakistan’s Bhutto political dynasty — this coming November. However, “Bhutto” has been removed from next season’s lineup and put on hiatus primarily due to lack of funding, according to the opera. – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  
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• Project Researcher / Serendipity / East Midlands

  15-05-2019 21:24
  Serendipity are looking to recruit a researcher to work on Archiving the Past: Reflecting the Future, an initiative supported by the National Lottery through the Heritage Fund and Leicester City...
  
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• Laura Dern’s 40-Year Acting Career Has Been As Flexible As Her (Extraordinary) Face Is

  15-05-2019 21:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Among the many anecdotes in Christine Smallwood’s profile: “She never dabbled in the drugs and alcohol that were omnipresent on film sets. Paul Cook of the Sex Pistols once pulled her aside while they were shooting Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains and scared her straight. (Dern celebrated her 13th birthday on that set.) ‘I was saying to my mom, Who knew that the best thing to do would be to send your daughter to do a movie with the Sex Pistols for five months?'”
  
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• Man Dives To The Deepest, Remotest Place On Earth And Finds… Plastic

  15-05-2019 20:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Vescovo, the Dallas-based co-founder of Insight Equity Holdings, a private equity fund, found the manmade material on the ocean floor and is trying to confirm that it is plastic. – The Guardian
  
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• ‘The Most Holistic Approach To Creating Belonging That I Have Witnessed In A Theatre’

  15-05-2019 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Critic Alex Rosenfeld writes about A Fierce Kind of Love, a devised play about the intellectual disability rights movement, and how everything about the production, from the integration of performers with disabilities into the development of the script and the cast to the provisions made by the presenter (FringeArts in Philadelphia) for audience members of varying (dis)abilities, demonstrated the difference between inclusion and belonging. – HowlRound
  
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• Artist Call Out - Community Associate Companies 2019 / Bush Theatre / London

  15-05-2019 19:35
  Community Associate Companies at the Bush Theatre is an annual programme which invites two local organisations to become associate companies of the theatre. This enables the groups to form a...
  
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• Ten Must-See Movies Setting The Buzz At Cannes

  15-05-2019 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Bill Murray and zombies, Afghanistan, football. It’s an eclectic (to say the least) lineup this year. – The Guardian
  
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• "The Exploded Body" Physical Theatre Course / Facciocose / London

  15-05-2019 19:14
  The Exploded Body Physical Theatre Course explores the relationship between the body and the space where it exists, researching the dynamics of space and rhythm through a structural form. A special...
  
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• Call for venues: Alexandra Reinhardt Memorial Award 2020 / Engage / UK-wide

  15-05-2019 19:05
  Engage is delighted to announce that applications are now open for venues wishing to host the Alexandra Reinhardt Memorial Award, Artist Commission 2020.
  Application deadline: 10am on Thursday 6...
  
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• A Vietnamese-American Theatre Critic Finally Sees Her Stories Onstage — And Feels What She Had Barely Known Was Missing

  15-05-2019 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “There is a line in The Scarlet Letter: ‘She had not known the weight, until she felt the freedom.’ I hadn’t known the weight of transposing myself into other people’s bodies until I no longer had to do it.” Diep Tran writes about Vietgone and Poor Yella Rednecks, the first two parts of a planned five-play cycle by Qui Nguyen about his family’s journey from Vietnam and settlement in the U.S. – American Theatre
  
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• Marketing Trainee and Orchestra Manager Trainee / Sinfonia Cymru / Wales

  15-05-2019 18:35
  Interested in a career in arts management? Sinfonia Cymru has two entry-point trainee roles which could be an ideal start to your career in the...
  
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• E.O. Wilson On Creativity In Science And Humanities

  15-05-2019 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Science tends to advance sometimes in major jumps. Something is discovered, some mystery is solved, some system is for the first time understood and can be duplicated. When that happens, science moves quickly. I started thinking: What moves the creative arts? I thought, maybe a scientist could say something useful to innovators and masters of the humanities. I thought the next big thing could be at the interface of science and the creative arts.” Chronicle of Higher Education
  
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• Day in Your Life - Photography Competition for RBKC / Alison Jackson Studios / London

  15-05-2019 18:26
  “A Day In Your Life”Award-winning artist Alison Jackson launches competition for aspiring photographers in Kensington and Chelsea.
  Introducing a brand new photography competition...
  
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• Schools into Theatre - Tender Opportunity / Southwark Council / London

  15-05-2019 18:20
  Southwark Council is looking for an individual or organisation to deliver the council’s Fairer Future commitmentto:
  ‘…ensure that every primary child gets a free visit to the...
  
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• Head of Press and Marketing / House of Illustration / London

  15-05-2019 18:12
  House of Illustration is the UK’s only public gallery dedicated to illustration and graphic art. Founded by Sir Quentin Blake it opened in July 2014 in King’s Cross, London. Over the five...
  
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• How Exactly Do You Define ‘Camp’? You Shouldn’t Even Try (Sorry, Susan Sontag)

  15-05-2019 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Camp, an agent of nonsense, resists this exercise. Or actually, like a child, kind of ignores it and wanders elsewhere.” J. Bryan Lowder takes it as a basic principle that camp is, or ought to be, fun — and whatever Sontag’s “Notes on Camp” is, fun it ain’t. “One can walk out of Sontag’s brain and into a less oppressive headspace. One can have a relationship with camp not marked by acrimony. But getting there requires recognizing how we got
  
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• Brief for Evaluative Services, Freelance / Artswork Limited / South East

  15-05-2019 18:03
  Brief for consultancy services: Cultural Education Partnership Evaluation
  Artswork are looking for a consultant to undertake a developmental evaluation of the 13 South East Cultural Education...
  
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• New exhibition, Graham Crowley: A Love of Many Things / Vivacity Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery / East

  15-05-2019 17:54
  Vivacity Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery present a new exhibition A Love of Many Things by Graham Crowley.A Love of Many Things showcases 40 years of work by painter Graham Crowley; but this is...
  
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• SHIFT Digital Ambassador for COSMOS 2019 / Abandon Normal Devices (AND) / North West

  15-05-2019 17:45
  DEADLINE: 12:00 noon Tuesday 21 May 2019
  Abandon Normal Devices (AND) and SHIFT (Cheshire East Council) are delighted to announce the second year for this exciting opportunity for residents of...
  
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• PA to Chief Commercial Officer / LW Theatres / London

  15-05-2019 17:45
  LW Theatres Group owns and operates seven commercial theatres in the heart of London’s West End. The Group is wholly owned by Andrew Lloyd Webber and our theatres are some of the most...
  
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• Affordable artists studios and gallery unit in North London / arbeit studios / London

  15-05-2019 17:40
  We are a creative work space and artist studios provider with various sites across London - East, North and South. We have few studios still available in our North London site. Unit 4 and...
  
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• Why Do Artists Tend To Be More Liberal? Study Says Their Brains Work Differently

  15-05-2019 17:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A recent study finds that such people are particularly good at imagining events that are far removed from their current reality. That imagination is, in a sense, their superpower, and it allows them to empathize with a wider range of people.” – Pacific Standard
  
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• Producer / Imagine If Theatre Company / Yorkshire

  15-05-2019 17:23
  Salary: £32,500 pro-rata
  Hours/Days: 2 days per week for 6 months (Possibility of a further 12 months funding dependent.)
  Location: Based at our Leeds office and across Yorkshire
  Start Date:...
  
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• 'I've seen more self-aware ants!' AI: More Than Human – review

  15-05-2019 17:14
  Barbican, LondonThis crowd-pleasing show throws robots, shiny toys and interactive paintings at viewers. But there’s little sign of creativity amid the chaotic overloadIn 2016, a machine beat the world’s best (human) player at the ancient strategy game Go, which up to then was said to be too intuitive for a computer. AlphaGo’s victory was doubly stunning because it taught itself Go by trial and error. Does the fact that computers can now learn mean that artificial intelligence
  
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• AI: More Than Human - review ... but less than art

  15-05-2019 17:14
  Barbican, LondonThis crowd-pleasing show throws robots, giant playthings and interactive paintings at viewers, but evidence of true creativity in machines is scarceIn 2016, a machine beat the world’s best (human) player at the ancient strategy game Go, which up to then was said to be too intuitive for a computer. AlphaGo’s victory was doubly stunning because it taught itself Go by trial and error. Does the fact that computers can now learn mean that artificial intelligence (AI) has m
  
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• Box Office Supervisor (Part-time, 10hrs) / Theatre Royal Windsor / South East

  15-05-2019 17:11
  Theatre Royal Windsor is looking for a motivated and enthusiastic box office supervisor as part of the box office team to support the deputy box office manager and box office manager in ensuring an...
  
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• Set Designer/Builder and Puppet Maker / FEEL Theatre / South East / London

  15-05-2019 17:09
  FEEL Theatre are looking for a set designer/builder and puppet maker from Wednesday 10th July - Friday 26th July 2019 for the R&D of new children’s project ‘Magical Moggie’.
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• 90-Year-Old Composer Disrupts Opera Opening With 50-Year-Old Grudge Against Company

  15-05-2019 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Just as the lights were going down at the State Theatre in Melbourne for the start of Opera Australia’s Rigoletto, George Dreyfus stood up and started yelling through a megaphone about the fact that the company had never produced the opera it had commissioned from him in 1969 and he turned in the following year. He went on for more than ten minutes at which point the police arrived. – Limelight (Australia)
  
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• Festival of Manchester Artist Community Commission / Manchester City Council / North West

  15-05-2019 17:00
  We are inviting proposals from artists / companies experienced in creating outdoor arts to create/build a mid to large-scale installation for Festival of Manchester 2019 on Saturday 31st August 2019...
  
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• Festival of Manchester Artist Micro Commission / Manchester City Council / North West

  15-05-2019 16:57
  Manchester City Council in partnership with the local community are inviting applications from artists and or artist collectives to create a new or adapted small-scale outdoor art piece for Festival...
  
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• Open Calls Residencies 2019/20 / V&A museum / London

  15-05-2019 16:40
  V&A Residencies: We have a really exciting line up of opportunities for Uk based practitioners that are wide reaching and ranging, from ceramics to fashion, film to...
  
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• Stop Asking What It’s Like To Be A Female Director, Say Females On Cannes Jury

  15-05-2019 16:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  Filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher: “It’s sort of like asking someone who survived a shipwreck why he’s still alive. … Why are you asking us? Well, ask the person who built the boat, who sold the tickets, the schools. People have said there haven’t been enough women, but it’s not enough to talk about at the end [of the chain]. We have to look at the beginning of the chain.” – Vulture
  
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• Imagination Research Hub Manager / Institute of Imagination / London

  15-05-2019 16:11
  Come and work for iOi in an exciting new role – helping to build the strategy for our iOi Research Hub. We are looking for an experienced researcher to develop research as a central part of our...
  
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• Migrant Death Boat Is By Far Most Controversial Work At Venice Biennale

  15-05-2019 16:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Artist Christoph Büchel managed to get possession of the actual fishing boat in which hundreds of migrants drowned while trying to get from Libya to Italy in 2015 — and he entered it as is, with no identifying text, in this year’s Biennale as an artwork titled Barca nostra (Our Boat). Reactions to the piece have been strong, ranging from somber admiration to appalled denunciation. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Stage Manager / FEEL Theatre / South East / London

  15-05-2019 15:57
  FEEL Theatre are looking for a stage manager from Monday 15th July - Friday 26th July 2019 for the R&D of new children’s project ‘Magical Moggie’ directed by Natalya...
  
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• London Playwriting Lab is open for applications / / London

  15-05-2019 15:56
  The London Playwriting Lab returns in May & June for the next instalment of the Weekend Workshops to guide writers from initial idea to full length play!
  The London Playwriting Lab exists to...
  
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• Creative Stall Holders wanted for South London Markets / SoLo Craft Fair / London

  15-05-2019 15:48
  SoLo Craft Fair Autumn events - Dulwich & Balham Saturday 28th September 2019
  Yes, it’s true! We don’t have one but we are gracing South London with two events on this date! Please...
  
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• Andrei Kramarevsky, One Of America’s Most Influential Ballet Teachers, Dead At 90

  15-05-2019 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  He had had a long and successful career as a character dancer at the Bolshoi (he danced for Stalin) when he up and left in 1975; the next year, he turned up at Balanchine’s School of American Ballet in New York. Balanchine watched him teach a class and told him, “My dear, I’ve been waiting for you for 40 years.” – The New York Times
  
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• Parliament's art collection to include more women

  15-05-2019 15:31
  Works depicting dozens of female politicians and campaigners to be introducedParliament is to receive an overhaul of its publicly displayed art work, with dozens of former and current female politicians and campaigners to be introduced to the walls of the Palace of Westminster.A painting of Nancy Astor, the first female MP to take her seat, and photographs of the MPs Yvette Cooper and Seema Kennedy, are among the works to be introduced following discussions among a committee of MPs. Continue rea
  
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• Yet Another Problem With Peter Zumthor’s Design For New LACMA Building: You Can’t Hang Paintings On Bare Concrete Walls

  15-05-2019 15:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  As if there weren’t enough issues with the damn thing already. As Christopher Knight writes, you could hang paintings on wires coming down from a high rail. (Bad idea in an earthquake zone.) Or you could drill holes in the wall, which is loud, expensive, and weakens the concrete. And LACMA want to rotate the collection constantly, so there would be a lot of rehanging. What were these people thinking? – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Photography Instructor / North London Photography Group / London

  15-05-2019 15:13
  We're looking for a photography instructor to teach Saturday DSLR photography sessions once a fortnight in North/Central London.
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  - Paid role
  - £18/hour
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• Turns Out Susan Sontag’s Actual First Book Was The One Her Husband Put His Name On And Made His Career With

  15-05-2019 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  A new biography by Benjamin Moser argues, citing previously unreleased correspondence as well as textual analysis, that Philip Rieff’s Freud: The Mind of the Moralist, which launched his academic career, was actually written (or rewritten) by Sontag, who had married Rieff when she was 17 — and that she relinquished rights to the book as part of her divorce settlement in order to avoid a custody fight over her son. – The Guardian
  
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• Instrumental Tutor (Trumpet) / Opera North Education / Yorkshire

  15-05-2019 15:01
  Opera North Education is one of the leading arts education departments in the country. The team delivers a range of workshops and creative projects, encouraging young people and communities to...
  
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• Chapters Feat: works of Claire Harmer / Artizan Gallery / South West / DEVON

  15-05-2019 14:59
  21st-29th June // Tuesday-Friday: 11:00-18:00 // Saturday: 10:00-18:00 //
  Artist Private View Friday 28th June 6 – 8 PM
   
  Commencing with ‘Cathedral Cove’ an oil painting...
  
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• Executive Director (Maternity Cover) / Upswing Aerial Limited / London

  15-05-2019 14:58
  EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
  (Full-time, Maternity Cover)
  Reporting to: Artistic Director /CEO
  Salary: £37,000 per annum
  Contract: 9-months commencing end of August 2019
   
  Upswing are seeking...
  
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