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• Don’t Push: Generalists Versus Specialists – One Leads To The Other

  26-05-2019 22:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  In online forums, well-meaning parents agonize over what instrument to pick for a child, because she is too young to pick for herself and will fall irredeemably behind if she waits. But studies on the development of musicians have found that, like athletes, the most promising often have a period of sampling and lightly structured play before finding the instrument and genre that suits them. – The New York Times
  
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• Graphic Design/illustrator / ScreenDeep / London

  26-05-2019 20:41
  We are looking for an illustrator with graphic design skils for a permanent public art exhibition in a major new London institution.
  Deliverables:
  - Graphic illustration based on musical scores to...
  
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• The Guardian view on ‘discovering’ overlooked artists: look to the present, too | Editorial

  26-05-2019 19:25
  It’s wonderful when artists are given the attention they deserve late in life – but there’s little cause for self-congratulationLast week an exhibition opened at the Serpentine Gallery in London devoted to an artist whose work, hitherto unheard of by most art lovers, is receiving a glowing response from critics. This “emerging” artist, receiving her first solo show at a public institution, is 98 years old. Luchita Hurtado, who was born in Caracas, has lived a long,
  
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• White female dancers - film / UPRA / London

  26-05-2019 18:43
  Director and Choreographer Lanre Malaolu is searching for White female dancers for his next film.
  "THE CONVERSATION" explores the challenges black men and women experience when on a date/with a...
  
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• Sound and Light technician / Dolly Daydream play / London

  26-05-2019 17:43
  I am directing, with producer John Phillips, a period play at the Barons Court theatre. DOLLY DAYDREAM
  The play will be shown for a 3 weeks run at the Barons Court Theatre (6 days a week). The show...
  
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• Call Out for Poets! - South Speak / South Speak / London

  26-05-2019 17:19
  CALL OUT FOR POETS!
  FOR CROSS-ARTS PUBLISHING OPPORTUNITY!
  South Speak is an opportunity to step into new ways of publishing your poetry. We are looking for 5-10 poets with an interest in writing...
  
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• Artist Call Out for Sculpture Programme / The Piece Hall Trust / Yorkshire

  26-05-2019 15:38
  Platform is a new sculpture programme providing an opportunity for artists to respond to the rich history of textiles, making and production in Halifax, and produce a creative and engaging response....
  
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• Choir leader/Workshop practitioner / The Helen Astrid Singing Academy / East Midlands

  26-05-2019 15:20
  We are seeking a dynamic choir leader(s) for a forthcoming project in the East Midlands.
  The Helen Astrid Singing Academy is looking for a choir leader or experienced workshop practitioner to assist...
  
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• The lost Leonardo? Louvre show ditches Salvator Mundi over authenticity doubts

  26-05-2019 14:47
  Art experts remain divided on the origins of the world’s most expensive paintingSalvator Mundi, the world’s most expensive painting, will not be part of this year’s big Leonardo da Vinci show in Paris because curators at the Louvre do not believe it can be attributed solely to the artist, it has been claimed.The art historian and writer Ben Lewis has charted the remarkable story of a painting which made headlines all over the world when it sold for $450m (£354m) at Christ
  
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• Highland spring: escaping to an art hotel in the Cairngorms

  26-05-2019 12:00
  Taxidermy, tartan walls and modern art give the revamped Fife Arms hotel, in Aberdeenshire, a shot of wild dramaOne of the books artfully piled up on the coffee table in the German Emperor, our Victoriana-themed bedroom in the Fife Arms hotel in Braemar, Aberdeenshire, was a copy of Nan Shepherd’s The Living Mountain. The windows opposite our canopied bed looked directly on to Braemar Kirk and to the Cairngorms beyond. It’s here where Shepherd, the Scottish poet, novelist and hill-wa
  
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• Leonardo da Vinci: A Life in Drawing review – lines of beauty

  26-05-2019 08:59
  The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London
  This superb show of Leonardo’s drawings reveals the craftsman alongside the visionary – and the sheer range of his curiosityA stand of trees, deep and dense, shivers with daylight. The rising trunks are sap-full and potent, and every little leaf seems to flutter in the air. The scene lives in its moment, evergreen, fresh as today – and yet this tiny drawing was made in 1500, in chalk, with an almost unbelievable range of touc
  
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• Animator / Aviary / North East / East, North West, North West, Yorkshire, East Midland, West Midlands, London, South East, South West

  26-05-2019 08:52
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  We’re looking for an animator to back up our team working on a temporary public art project in the North East. Due to the nature of the work, the successful applicant can be based anywhere...
  
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• Extra-mural studies: why students should not look away from uncomfortable art

  26-05-2019 07:00
  The case of George Washington high school in San Francisco is mirrored by the covering of harsh images in Harlem. But such images must be seenEven urging a “truer history”, Paloma Flores, a member of California’s Pitt River tribe, questions the validity of showing an image of a murdered Native American. She’s disturbed by the message of a mural at George Washington high school in San Francisco, where she works, that has been in place for 84 years. Related: A school's mura
  
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